An application I created used a lot of MySQL ENUMS. They are kind of useful, in that the value of an ENUM column does not need a lookup. The downside is that it lead to a lot of string comparisons in the code, and this became a prime suspect when performance degraded.
However a colleague of [...]
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PHP profiling: comparisons
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Programming
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Embracing braces: please don’t
October 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
In Making Wrong Code Look Wrong Joel writes:
Even more subtle:
if (i != 0)
foo(i);
In this case the code is 100% correct; it conforms to most coding conventions and there’s nothing wrong with it, but the fact that the single-statement body of the ifstatement is not enclosed in braces may be bugging you, because you might be [...]
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VentureBlog: Chris Anderson Strikes Again: The Economy of Abundance
October 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
What does it mean when the cost of supply (bandwidth, storage, processing speed) is effectively zero? Does this change how businesses work?
It is easy to say yes, but I have an objection. The caveat is that software is not free. The problem is not even that software is expensive. The problem is that good software [...]
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Streamlining CSS – Part II
October 9th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
Eric Meyer’s comments on Streamlining CSS sparked some further thoughts (always a good thing).
Eric was (unsurprisingly) talking about changing the standard (and therefore browser behaviour), which I had (also unsurprisingly) considered to be way beyond the scope of what I could consider. My approach was therefore to focus on the build system, which was not only [...]
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