Saturday, January 31st, 2009
As a part of my work at The Group, I've been developing a suite of applications for them. As most web applications do, these applications have to store their user data somewhere - in a database.
As you may guess, the user's password has been stored as a hash. As a ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The Doctrine library comes with a feature called nested set, which makes saving trees in a database easy. However, it's quite easy to accidentally cause a lot of extra unneeded queries if not being careful.
Here are some pointers to keep in mind while working with the nested set, and some ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
You often hear that using PHP under Microsoft servers is a bad idea, because it doesn't work very well.
But is that even true? You guessed it... no. It is actually possible to get a PHP based database application working under IIS and MS SQL Server perfectly fine, it just may ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment in 4 easy steps, one of which is optional and one of which isn't really a step at all! ;)
These days I've been working on Linux servers for a long time, so when I had to install all the things necessary for ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
While possibly a great help and a way to speed development up, are database access classes like Zend_Db and others making people forget about SQL?
ActiveRecord, Table Row Gateway and whatnot, are people trying to constrain their thinking inside the bounds given by these implementations?
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