February 2009 Entries
We just had a problem with data that is sent to SQL Server as a XML string. One of the values sent to the SQL Server is defined in the C# class as a double and interpreted as a 'DECIMAL(28, 9)' on the SQL Server. This was working so far. Just wen someone entered a quite small number (0.000013) it stopped working. The reson: 1.3E-05 is sent to the SQL Server and it can’t interprete this. It COULD be parsed on the SQL Server, although would involve some floting point madness that could mess up the...
Once in a while everyone seems to come across one of them. One of the really good developers. They seem to dream in code and while they are typing away on their keyboards, they hardly seem to think - they just now! But how did they got to this point? It's hard to say. Partly it is a talent, partly it is only learned. Depending on how you came into IT and specifically software development, you most probably did learn at one point in time, that software development purely is an engineering discipline....