One of the first things every Junior Developer learns regarding relational database systems is that storing integers is fast, it doesn’t take much space and in general, you should favor an integer over a character field if you’ve got the choice.
A couple of days ago I wrote about the advent calender on the blog of the company I work for: Mayflower. And I also wrote a blog post about using custom annotations in PHP to save a lot of time and code with it. I worked on a lot [...]
