10:48:00 - Advanced databases for beginners
I was reading a blog post decrying Drizzle suggesting it really was a good thing that MySQL now had all the things that a "proper" RDBMS should have like referential integrity, triggers, views and stored procedures. That lead to a presentation from where I got the title of this post. It is obviously slightly less easy to follow as you don't have the author filling in around the bullet points but it seams to me to be a good introduction to more advanced database concepts for the quick and dirty db generation (of which I often am, a more traditional member questioned my use of an implicit join recently, I didn't have time to tell my range safety proverb).
This then lead me on again, to find out more about the web presentation framework used. It is called S5 looks to be simple to work from and about a nanosecond's research has already found at least one conversion tool from another documentation format and it looks ideal for use with many of the current templating engines.
There have been a lot of stuff recently where n00bs using stuff like views etc for the first time have written rants that effectively say "MySQL is shit, my unoptimised query that I haven't bothered looking at indexing for runs slowly as a view".