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The ORM is bad because it is a poor abstraction of SQL. This manifests itself in several ways, the largest being little control over the SQL queries generated. Here's a gist I made…

On the CDN urls, you can just change them to use protocol relative urls. It Looks like the jquerytools cdn doesn't support HTTPS, but you should be okay to use this one from cloudf…

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As a dude, I experience the latter two scenarios frequently. To bring the topic to a more constructive angle, does anyone have any techniques that might help in these cases? My def…

One thing to be aware of when storing sensitive information in environment variables, is that it is possible to view the environment variables a process is using.

Yes RDS is like any MySQL db. The key word there being MySQL. If you want to use another data store like say, postgres or even some NoSQL solution. You're outta luck. As for platfo…

A couple friends and I just spent the past 48 hours building an app that recreates a lot of this functionality. Some key things to note with this is that you're stuck with RDS, and…