D For A Web Developer

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/2014 12:32 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>
> On the other side of the fence the Wordpress authors are having a lot of
> power. Whatever Wordpress makes easy will dominate a large portion of
> the web. I think that is so sad, because the Wordpress codebase is… err…
> junk.

I've used Wordpress. Its codebase isn't the only thing bad about it ;)

 > I am not even going to use the term «a pile of junk» which would
> suggest that there is some sense of structure to it. I think it is more
> like a scattered mutating spaghetti dinner gone terribly wrong, slowly
> emerging from every toilet in every household taking over the earth…
> like the classic horror movies from the 1950s.
>

Sounds pretty much exactly what I'd expect from just about any PHP-based 
application. :/

>> JS can definitely help improve the UX of form validation, no doubt
>> about that, but it's important to remember that server-side validation
>> is still necessary anyway, regardless of what you do on the client.
>
> Yup. So a must have is a good infrastructure for specifying database
> invariants and transactions. Ideally it should execute like a stored
> procedure thus leaving the server logic pretty clean.
>

I have to admit I've been in the habit of avoiding anything beyond basic 
SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE and CREATE TABLE. Not that I haven't used 
them, but I really should have more familiarity with the other stuff 
than I do. Ugh, but SQL can be such a pain, especially with all the 
vendor differences, and when compared to accomplishing something in 
whatever language I'm invoking SQL from.