February 4th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Just a simple tip, if you’re just starting out with css. I see a lot of html developers adding ids or class names on every html tag they want to target in their stylesheet. This is really not necessary. You can combine tags in your css rules.
Simple example: suppose you want to style your input [...]
February 4th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Paul Buchheit has another good example why you shouldn’t completely design new products in design documents in his post Communicating with code:
From that day until launch, every new feature went live immediately, and most new ideas were implemented as soon as possible. This resulted in a lot of churn — we re-wrote the frontend about [...]
February 3rd, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oracle, oss
I’ve been using sql for a number of years now, and thought i knew most of the sql syntax. So i was quite surprised to find out about the existence of UPDATE … FROM. Turns out, this doesn’t exist in Oracle, but is supported by PostgreSQL.
Here’s a small example:
update response
set house_id = ?
from house [...]