…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.
Author Archives: Stephen
I’m just a simple hyperchicken from a backwood asteroid…
09/03/10
Run-time Code Generation
03/03/10
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 [...]
Automatically Erase Data from your iPhone
23/02/10
(This is in response to the rash of iphone thefts)
People like to steal iphones. Its a fact of life. For the most part they just want to sell the phone without your sim card or your data. However, if you are like me you keep a lot of stuff on your phone…a contact list of [...]
Learning Python
21/02/10
I’m taking the time to pick up python right now. So far I like it, very straightforward, has everything I want in a language. One of the things I do when I pick a new language is re-implement the very first program I wrote when learning how to program my calculator in High School. Its [...]