I have here a basic shopping cart application that has products listed for sale. These products are sorted into categories. But each product can have many categories. We use a many-to-many association here. I have chosen to use has_and_belongs_to for this particular relationship. Products are also tagged. So similarly, each tag can have many products […]
Disclaimer: This is an opinionated post. It wasn’t written to impose ideologies but to create awareness especially if you’re a teenager, young adult or a parent with kids still in school. I hardly regret anything in my 24 years of life. But if there was one thing that I could change, it would have to be taking the action […]
Biggest mistake of my life. SimpleDB is a great SIMPLE database. I, however, failed to consider 2 matters before I began using it. First. It is slow to update_attributes. Not literally, it’s just like every database. But what is different here is that whenever you make a POST request to make changes or save a […]
I’ve reached a whole new level and I’m pretty happy about it.. I’ve never really thought it was possible. Ever since young, I was one lazy brat. When I was in school, I would copy my friends homework solution, skip classes cause I wanted to sleep in and leave everything to the very last minute.
So, I have just launched my first production application with SimpleDB at http://snappress.com. I’ve mostly used Postgresql and MongoDB and I just wanted to share some of my experience. Similar to MongoDB, I love how easy and simple it is using SimpleDB. No schemas, migrations to worry about. But I find the ORM that comes […]
There are countless debates on SQL or no-SQL. From what I can tell, the real advantage I see in no-sql is writing speed. At least that is the main thing that no-sql advocates shout about. Of course, there are many types no-sql databases (couchDB, mongoDB) and many types of sql databases (mysql, postgresql, sqlite….) and […]
So I’ve finally decided to take the leap and get my hands dirty with AWS. I’ve always been hesitant to do so because there was always an easier solution – heroku :). I mean why waste time doing something unnecessary when you can work on improving your app or do some marketing right? Well at the end […]
Yeap. WWDC 2012 just passed hours ago. And I have to declare my love for Apple yet again. I try not to like anything because everyone else likes it. But Apple, I am not just in awe, instead, I have my outmost respect for. Their products are great but that’s not the reason why Apple […]
