This is the website of Svend Tofte residing in Copenhagen Denmark. Web developer since 1999 and life-long nerd devotee. Currently working with ASP.NET and related Microsoft technologies, and obstensibly a student at the University of Copenhagen.
Japan, 2008
This is a problem I’ve been thinking a good deal about lately, without really coming to any conclusion, maybe because there is no right way. The issue can be summed up fairly easily, but it does betray the multitude of issue that lie beneath.
How do you handle non-english terms in your code?
Every time I need to work with SQL, it never ceases to amaze. The language is simply such an abortion in terms of development enviroments and simple programmer usability. Naturally, alot of this stems from my inexperience with the language. Mostly this post is just my own personal gripes with about SQL.
So, at work I find that I need a function which takes a variable number of GUIDs, and presents me with a compounded status integer, pulling status indicators for each GUID, and producing a single status. Should be simple right?