Category Archives: Ruby and RailsI spent all day today discovering something that’s both useful, and frustrating. To put it shortly, having a primary key on the join table for your habtm relationship will cause you problems. But having an :id field that isn’t a primary key does something useful. Want details?
I was trying to figure out how, even [...]
I just signed up for this:
http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/BarCampWashingtonDC
We had an UnConference at AOL this past Friday, and I thought it was very cool and very effective. BarCamp is supposed to be like that, and open to the general population - so long as you’re willing to participate, and not just spectate.
For my part, I intend to hold [...]
I love Rails. I really do. Developing with Rails is a pleasure, and it enables one to get a project out the door very very quickly. But when it comes to running in production, we all know that Rails presents significant scaling challenges.
Java, on the other hand, is almost the opposite. Developing an app in [...]
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