Gerrardism

I was listening once to two programmers talk about MySQL. Both had taken the job in smaller business to get more "hands on" and "big picture" to developing high end web sites. They had both worked on big sites before - but only on a very small component. They where talking about MySQL and referred to it as being a Relational Model Database (RMDBS). It is not!

Well, not in it normal form. And definitely not in they we had implemented it.

To be a Relational Model Database, the database must enforce relations - referential integrity. Obvious really.

"Continual Development" is the concept where by you are always working on your web site - making many small improvement and sending them to the production site as soon as they are completed. This is opposed to the old approach of sending many changes up in defined versions. As a developer comes across a part of the code they can fix or make better - they do, and immediately make those changes live. And in working like this, it is usual to say that in the course of a year or so, you would have completely re-written your entire program.

Enter Gerrard.