Crap. That was a mouthful. There seems to be a huge amount of stuff on Her Majesty’s Interwebs about all of these topics, but very little explaining how to pull them all together into something coherent. There’s a shit-ton of bad code to copy to get something bouncing around on screen, but none of it cares about scaling wellContinue reading “Writing games in HTML5 and CoffeeScript combining Box2D and EaselJS in an OOP/MVC architecture”
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How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 2: Stored Procedure Hacks
In Part 1 we looked at using VIEWS to keep our SQL DRY. Unfortunately, there are cases when VIEWS are either not allowed or perform terribly and can’t be optimised. Stored Procedures are, of course, the mainstay of writing DRY SQL, and optimisation. Unfortunately, you can’t treat the result set of Stored Procedure as a query; therefore you can’t join storedContinue reading “How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 2: Stored Procedure Hacks”
How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 1: Views
Writing DRY code is a fundamental principle of software development. DRY, or Don’t Repeat Yourself, was popularised by the 1999 Pragmatic Programmer coding practices book (the alternative being WET code, meaning Write Everything Twice, or possibly “We Enjoy Typing”). DRY code is optimal, not just because it’s less typing, but because when you come to refactor code (make changes to it), it’s much easier if there’s aContinue reading “How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 1: Views”
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