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by voidpointer 18y ago
In rails the database is mostly a storage space for freeze-dried model objects. Your typical enterprise RDBMS woes don't apply. Migrations just make sure that the database scheme is consistent with your actual model. As far as writing Rail
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by voidpointer 18y ago
The model may still become a bottleneck if objects are tightly coupled and you can't scale out the model in a horizontal way. The low level nature and conceptual simplicity of the relational model allows database vendors to pull some pretty
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by voidpointer 18y ago
Most importantly, back in the day 1998/1999 there was not much around that could match up to the functionality of PHP. Java servlets were not supported widely, Netscape had their serverside javascript wich required you to buy into their ser
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by voidpointer 18y ago
In my opinion the notion of implementing business logic outside of the database and acknowledging the longevity of the data are not necessarily in conflict. You need to have a well defined model and you can choose whether the database is a
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by voidpointer 18y ago
The solution to this is a multi-tier architecture. Only one application that implements the domain model talks to the DB and all other apps talk to that application. This doesn't give you the raw performance of a model living purely in the
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by voidpointer 18y ago
These are great examples towards the fact that the relational model isn't always the best way to go. Especially with regards to an evolving model. In object oriented models, polymorphism can be employed to extend an existing model with rat
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by voidpointer 18y ago
I think when arguing about XML, many people forget its relationship to SGML. Many of the drawbacks in XML are design decisions made in order to maintain backwards compatibility with SGML tools that were in use when XML was devised. In order
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by voidpointer 18y ago
Well, it has been pointed out before, but this is just too funny. I hadn't looked at joel's site for some time and I had to check some other posts to tell whether the blurbs under the real posts were there for humorous reasons or whether th
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Android Desktop Phone Designed by iPhone Engineer(i.gizmodo.com)
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by voidpointer 18y ago
No. He means that the quality of the books published by O'Reilly is essentially unrelated to the value/truthfulness of the advice that he is giving in the linked article.
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by voidpointer 18y ago
It seems almost ironic that an author who sees no value in education beyond securing credentials that get you a good position is only offering anecdotes to back his position.