Archive for February, 2008

While using Commonwealth Bank’s online bank NetBank last week I transferred over $1000 on to my Credit Card. I didn’t owe anything on this credit card I just wanted the funds on there to use… Since then I’d noticed my Available balance was on top $2000 of my limit… Really confused thinking the bank had [...]

Image storage: Database BLOB Vs. File system

Posted: 8th February 2008 by Grant Perry in Programming (app)

This raises an age old question which will likely be debated for many years to come. Ultimately both methods of storage have their benefits and costs. Storing images on the file system has a marginally faster retrieval rate, thanks to web and proxy servers being good at what they do. Storing images in a database [...]