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Something I’ve seen happen to a lot of good people is stagnation. You see signs of this when they start saying “This new thing X is just like Y from 20 years ago so I’m not going to try it”. Our industry is one that fundamentally changes every few years or so. The worst thing you can do is to not keep up and let yourself stagnate. - Mike Fotes

Eb5 at 2:00 - Mike Fotes

You're building this site, Randy? - Mike Fotes

No, that is John's scrap site, i just hadn't read it until last night when he told me about it. - Randy Merrill

Wow...it all makes perfect sense now. You bastard! ;) Hilarious, and maddening to think of all the pain that I and so many others have gone through because of this. I was reading it and thinking "ya, operator overloading" and then he talks about how ridiculous the operator overloading is. Grr! - Mike Fotes

Then again...do I really believe it? Hmm... - Mike Fotes

Wow, this makes CF performance finally make sense: "This is particularly true because OO implementation was done so ill-advisedly in ColdFusion, with each CFC method represented as a separate class in Java." Ouch. - Mike Fotes

Absolutely insane ... read this if you get a second. Stuff like: "220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly" ... "550,000 images served per second" ... it's a totally different world of scalability that these people do, compared to what we do. - Mike Fotes

*pulls up his local dev instance and keeps working* - Mike Fotes

The solution to misinformation is more information and better access, and better transparency. Not to suppress it, not to regulate it. - Mike Fotes

>>> qs.query.group_by = ['item_type'] >>> qs.query.having = ['COUNT(item_type) > 1'] - Mike Fotes

So you actually found it... awesome... - Randy Merrill

Yeah, but I ended up not using it because of other limitations. Ended up going with creating a custom Manager object with straight SQL. - Mike Fotes

"Cold" and "imported" in the same sentence should only have one thing come after, and it's _not_ Coke. - Mike Fotes

I believe that Blake wanted to use this type of configuration on ezPlug when we port it over to apache. - Randy Merrill

Sweet. This is the setup that I plan on using for our Django app server so it's simple to deploy new apps. - Mike Fotes

Artists, musicians, film-makers all paint the walls, eat a lot of organic food, smile a lot, and generally act as a band-aid on the wound of capitalism lest the world forget that life is much, much more than paying bills and buying Apple gear. - Mike Fotes

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Use meta.Session.execute() to execute a non-ORM SQL query within the session's transaction. - Mike Fotes

Use meta.Session.execute() to execute a non-ORM SQL query within the session's transaction. - Mike Fotes

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