I really like open source, it gives clients comfort, developers solid foundations and end users never need to know about it. Why should they care! Today, being the thick headed person that I am, I realise in my gut, what…
Web development frameworks and SQL ghettos.
My platform of choice is Ruby on Rails. In an early project, I implemented some reports by coding special purpose sql statements embedded within model methods. This worked well, and allowed the reports to run reasonably speedily. As I continued…
Danger Will Robinson
I like RSPEC, I LOVE RSPEC. But, this morning, I found a flaw in its beauty. If you are using a lambda to verify that a block of code raises an exception it works fine. A problem occurs if you…
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Rails is nice. Rails is REAL nice, but, you would expect me to say that, I am a rails developer. One thing that rails is not nice about is efficiency. It’s elegant, its compact, but, the simplest things can have…