Monthly Archives: June 2011

PostgreSQL Version Control Feature Coverage

Posted on 20 June, 2011 by

In a comment to one of my early posts about version control, Peter Eisentraut stated he was “somewhat discouraged because [seeing how fast PostgreSQL develops and adds new features,] I don’t see how a tool like apgdiff can keep up … Continue reading →

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To MVC or not to MVC

Posted on 13 June, 2011 by

Many (or most) application frameworks have adopted a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, for example, Django (they call it MTV but it’s very similar), Pylons, Ruby on Rails, and Struts. In The Helsinki Declaration (IT Version), Toon Koppelaars makes the case for … Continue reading →

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Designing a (somewhat) RESTful Database User Interface

Posted on 6 June, 2011 by

To continue exploring the design of a generic database user interface, let us turn our attention to a web interface. I’ll use the pattern of the Django admin application as the basis for specifying the behavior of a somewhat RESTful … Continue reading →

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