Monthly Archives: March 2010

I’m just a simple hyperchicken from a backwood asteroid…

…but I don’t think ORM is very useful. I would say that for hacking together a very simple crud interface in rails/django/whatever its really nice. But in the end, if your app has a database you ought to be writing your own queries. UPDATE: This is a great answer to this post.

Run-time Code Generation

I was speaking with my colleague Matt about refactoring Javascript. One of the most common “smells” in code, or at least in my code, is duplication. A really common one for me to see several event handlers or callback functions that all do the same thing, but in ever so slightly different cases. This came [...]

Timepicker on the YUI blog

I have a post up on the YUI blog. Check it out.