Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Zend Framework 1.6 Released

Zend Framework 1.6 was just released and we already have it on all our servers.  I can honestly say I did not have time to play around with the release candidate versions so my knowledge of it is not great.  I am however as I write this working on porting our website to use Zend [...]

Always Have an Order By

Yesterday there was a report of a strange bug by a user on a system I’m currently working with.  I was told a specific row was not showing up in the data set.  The system was using PostgreSQL for the database and used ExtJS grid component to render the data set so my first instinct [...]

It’s another day so it’s time for another rant about something that continues to bug me.
The naming conventions of fields in tables of a database!  There seems to be absolutely no consistency between applications and in some cases even within the application it self.   My biggest gripe I would have to say is the naming [...]