(With apologies to Hal Draper) By the time the Office of Epistemic Hygiene was created, nobody actually read anything. This was not, the Ministry constantly insisted, because people had become lazy. It was because they had become efficient. Why spend six months wading through archaic prose about, say, photosynthesis, when you could simply ask the… Continue reading MS Fnd in a Modl (or, The Day the Corpus Collapsed)
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Databases and Metadata
Following on from my previous post let’s take a closer look at the kinds of metadata that you might put into a database and how an Object-Relational Mapping layer (like Class::DBI, ActiveRecord or Hibernate) might make use of it. We’ll start with the most obvious stuff and work our way down to less common features.… Continue reading Databases and Metadata