Hey all. I work at flickr now.
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I’m just a simple hyperchicken from a backwood asteroid…
09/03/10
…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
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 [...]