View Point on Frameworks

The way humans get computers to do what they want is through “programming” and we program in a “programming language”. In a way, it’s how humans communicate with a computer. When I program, it’s more like talking to a computer than anything else. Talking is what keeps me clothed, fed, and sheltered. In English, you …

Handling File Storage

When you’re writing a massive application, if given a choice to use a file manager to manage files or to allow the application to manage the files on its own, it’s much preferable that allow the application to handle the file placement logic. This way, the application’s database can be put in charge of maintaining …

Data Inside a Database

Data inside a database should always be post-processed and ready-to-use-as-is. If you can rely on the data provided by the database to be usable as is, then you’ll save yourself a lot of string processing work. Think about it this way, if you have a string, let say “orange” and it’s stored in the database, …