So these guys have a contest something like the classic 5k contest. Except the rules are stupid lenient (library and FONTS don’t count). The whole fun of the 5k contest is that the limitations are so strict it causes some real creativity. Worst still, the first entry, by this guy, is 141.04kb with 12 requests [...]
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I’m just a simple hyperchicken from a backwood asteroid…
09/03/10 – 12:51 am
…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 – 12:30 pm
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 [...]