Thursday, June 1st, 2006
It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the framework just doesn’t fit with ...
Monday, October 17th, 2005
PostgreSQL and MySQL can both use local sockets to handle communication between the client and the server. An indepth description of sockets can be found here, but basically they are special files that act like network connections. The difference is that instead of being available over the network, it’s only ...