enumeration – Row Coding

Elixir – Looping through and adding to map

September 4, 2023 by Tarik

This is a nice challenge to have and solving it will definitely give you some insight into functional programming. The solution for such problems in functional languages is usually reduce (often called fold). I will start with a short answer (and not a direct translation) but feel free to ask for a follow up. The … Read more

Lookup Tables Best Practices: DB Tables… or Enumerations

May 24, 2023 by Tarik

Generally you should only use enumeration where there is a clear set of items that will not change, e.g. primary colours, or continent names. Otherwise lookup tables with appropriately implemented foreign keys are pretty much always the best option. There is a possible variation on the lookup table option where you potentially have a large … Read more