Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award

Packt Publishing announced the winners for their annual Open Source CMS Award in November, and since then I have been a bit disturbed that the 2009 winner was WordPress. My first reaction was this:
“… So a blogging platform won the content management system award? How sad is that?”
My knee-jerk “how sad is that?” reaction comes [...]

MySQL Series: Return NULL Values First With Descending Order

Sometimes there are unique situations where you need to order query results by a particular field in descending order, but also need NULL values first. The default (and logical) behavior of MySQL in this case is to return NULL values last, because in descending order they have the lowest value (none). But what if you [...]

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