jawnb

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   by jawnb 12y ago

   The ORM is bad because it is a poor abstraction of SQL. This manifests itself in several ways, the largest being little control over the SQL queries generated. Here's a gist I made the other day demonstrating this. https:/&#x2F
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   by jawnb 13y ago

   On the CDN urls, you can just change them to use protocol relative urls. It Looks like the jquerytools cdn doesn't support HTTPS, but you should be okay to use this one from cloudflare //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/li
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   by jawnb 13y ago

   [citation needed]
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   by jawnb 13y ago

   As a dude, I experience the latter two scenarios frequently. To bring the topic to a more constructive angle, does anyone have any techniques that might help in these cases? My default is either extreme ambivalence, or raging hard ass. It'
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   by jawnb 14y ago

   One thing to be aware of when storing sensitive information in environment variables, is that it is possible to view the environment variables a process is using.
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   by jawnb 14y ago

   Yes RDS is like any MySQL db. The key word there being MySQL. If you want to use another data store like say, postgres or even some NoSQL solution. You're outta luck. As for platform lock-in, my comments were less towards the web service
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   by jawnb 14y ago

   A couple friends and I just spent the past 48 hours building an app that recreates a lot of this functionality. Some key things to note with this is that you're stuck with RDS, and locked in to amazons platform choice. If anyone is interes