Archive for 2008/05

Based on advice from Sean Corfield, I set up my application as a series of three sub-applications. A public application, a staff application and a superuser application. This is a great way to divide and conquer an application separating controllers and configuration but there aren’t many concrete examples of how to go about [...]

I’ve been working on my exception reports and one of the things I wanted to do was isolate the equivalent of a “404″ response in Model-Glue to be more graceful to the user. I found this post from Ray’s site and a promise in the comments from Joe Rinehart that typed exceptions would make [...]

I use fairly vanilla SQL most of the time so I was shocked to read this post on the PostgreSQL list when I ran into some slowness with a NOT IN query. While my experience is with Postgres, apparently this works with most databases.
If you have a NOT IN with a subquery that returns [...]