In gardening, a hedge is a line of shrubs which forms a barrier between two areas. In finance, a hedge is a risk management strategy based on making investments or business plans in such a way that a loss in one area of the portfolio will be balanced by a gain in another area of [...]
Also tagged business, hedges, open questionA couple weeks ago, I wrote a post noting that I liked the lightweight nature of the Ruby web framework Merb. Today comes the news that Merb and Rails will be merging in Rails 3. People who see Merb as the "anti-Rails" seem to find this surprising. But people who see Merb as "Rails done [...]
Also tagged asp.net mvc, dynamic data, entity framework, merb, railsBig frameworks with strong coupling are prisons. Once you go into them, you’re stuck, and it can be incredibly difficult to get out.
Also tagged asp.net mvc, frameworks, merb, WebIn my last post, "‘Model’ Is an Overloaded Word," I discussed several types of models which might be present in an MVC application. But I limited the discussion to models which are actually in the executable. There may of course be additional models, such as ERDs, UML models, etc., which exist in the development environment, [...]
Also tagged modeling, mvcLet’s say you’re writing a web application, and using the Model View Controller design. Maybe you’re using an out-of-the-box framework like the ASP.NET MVC Framework or Rails, or maybe you’re using a different implementation; it doesn’t matter. It’s pretty obvious that the "View" portion of the design is the part which provides a template for [...]
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