Graceful Exits

Tomorrow I compère the Oxfringe April Follies Open Mic Night at the St Aldate’s Tavern from 8ish onwards. Anyone who turns up has the right to shout for no more than precisely five minutes, at which point the magic hooter will hoot its magic and you must drop the microphone and run.
This is one of [...]

The LAMP-stack community frequently shows their disdain for foreign and primary keys in databases, and sometimes with reason borne of experience. MySQL historically has been little more than a nice language for comparing a set of unrelated spreadsheets, so referential integrity has had to happen at the application layer or not at all. As such, [...]