LAMPlights Personal anecdotes from my experiences using the LAMP stack

2Dec/111

ORM frameworks are black magic

I read a really good post from Vic on his move away from ORM frameworks. I did not agree with everything he said though and wanted to start a discussion. Unfortunately, there is no way to leave comments on his blog. The next best thing is to post it here.

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5Mar/090

Crutching on MySQL’s INSERT IGNORE

MySQL has a lot of nice additions to the SQL-92 standard that make life easier for developers. The drawback to these shortcuts is that many developers don't learn how to cope in other database environments, like PostgreSQL. Take INSERT IGNORE for example: PostgreSQL does not have support for this syntax. A resourceful developer can do a quick google search to learn an alternative, but many of the solutions at the top of google will show the wrong way to solve this problem.