Populate database pattern - why is it so cool?

Once my co-worker propose an idea to fill database with some fake data because we didn't have a gui forms yet and we have to show something that works to customer. That was a start for great pattern - populator.

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Computer science ain't as good as it should be

When I start studying computer science in the University class I truly believe that it is all I need to get started writing good programs. Algorithms > Functional programming > OOP > Databases > MVC is a step-by-step path of all people that learn programming of the web application. But...

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Update and create timestamps with MySQL

A lot of relational tables need created and update timestamps columns. I prefer having them for all tables with no exception. However, most of applications I am working on are running MySQL. MySQL has minor limitation on timestamps. Unfortunately you can create only one time stamp column that has DEFAULT NOW() value. Read more to see how to avoid this limitation.

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