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PCPlus 262: Best Data Use

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 2

Next up in this series on writing the calendar of archived posts, is the PostsReader class. This class queries the database for the posts for a particular month or a particular day. It utilizes a couple of other helper classes that manage the caching of results, so we'll look at these first. […]

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