Gurgitations

A new age of social networking is coming… to your cell phone. I don’t know when, but I do know it will come. It will start secretly (to you) on high school and college kids’ phones. It will likely involve sharing something that you feel is far too private to be publicly posted all over the place online. It will grow, and you will see it spreading to seemingly every teenager’s phone. Then one day, your Mom will announce that she’s signed up, and you’ll realize that somewhere along the way, this thing really became a new way to communicate.

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A little while ago, I was reading up on Ruby on Rails and started thinking about database performance. Dynamic SQL that happens auto-magically is great, but should the application tier really always be pulling over a bunch of database records into memory everytime it needs to manipulate data? Even if that data never needs to be displayed? I thought there might be a way to save some of those roundtrips.

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