Posted in Database, Rails, Ruby on May 29th, 2009 No Comments »
A presentation I held on May 28 at Düsseldorf on Rails about interesting and useful things you can do with ActiveRecord, SQL, and a smart database. german english .
Posted in Database, Rails on April 9th, 2009 No Comments »
You’re using git to manage your Ruby on Rails projects? Then you’ve probably come to appreciate topic branches as a kind of transaction facility for programmers. If you need to implement a non-trivial or just try something, the way to go is onto a new “topic” branch. There you can mangle the code all you [...]
Posted in Database on May 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Emperor Ming strikes back May 5, 2008by Michael Schürigproduct Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets ★★★☆☆ I have (read) copies of five earlier of Celko’s books on my shelf, still I am again amazed by the cultural distance. Most of my programming life I have spent with object-oriented programming languages and associated technologies. Thus, when Celko [...]