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Using Bitmasks in a Groups Permission System

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

As promised in my previous post, this article will describe a practical application of bitmasks, in this particular case for usage in a permission system on a webapplication. This particular application is a social network site, in which a user can create a joinable group. Each group has four usergroups ...

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The Lost Art of Bitmasks

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

In this article, I will attempt to explain the so-called bitmasks, and the application of the binary operators (such as &, |, << and >>) found in pretty much every programming language. I myself have been in my education for four years now, but only last year or so did ...

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