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The Database Programmer

Personal blog · database-programmer.blogspot.com · on HN as kendownsprogrammingdata

The Database Programmer is a personal blog at database-programmer.blogspot.com about programming and data. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Maintaining One Code Base with Possibly Conflicting Custom Features”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2008

All things related to database applications, both desktop and web.

The author on HN?

kendowns · 7 karma · member since 2008

Author of The Database Programmer blog ( http://database-programmer.blogspot.com ) and the Andromeda Database Development System ( http://www.andromeda-project.org ).

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Maintaining One Code Base with Possibly Conflicting Custom Features
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2008/09/comprehensiv...

    Comment linking /2008/09/comprehensive-table-of-contents.html

    on “Want To Be A Startup CEO? Better Learn How To Code.”
  2. Submitted The Wonderful Awful Browser as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Minimize Code, Maximize Data as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Minimize Code, Maximize Data as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Database Programmer: Advanced Table Design: Secure Password Resets as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Working Definition of Business Logic, with Implications for CRUD Code as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted History Tables in a Database as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Database Programmer: Different Foreign Keys for Different Tables as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Data and Code at the Application Level as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Maintaining One Code Base with Possibly Conflicting Custom Features as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Can You Really Create A Business Logic Layer? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Database Performance 1: Huge Inserts as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Maintaining One Code Base with Possibly Conflicting Custom Features as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Database Programmer: Theorems Regarding Business Logic as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Business Logic: From Working Definition to Rigorous Definition as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The Database Programmer: The Data Dictionary and Calculations, Part 1 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The Database Programmer: Upgrading Indexes With a Data Dictionary as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Argument For Denormalization as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted All Software Development is Schema Management as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Do you know what day it is? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Upserts through triggers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Argument for Normalization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Database Performance: The Web Layer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Why I Do Not Use ORM as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Using a Data Dictionary as a story · 1 points

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