Friends keep asking me how to protect their blog posts from being copied.
As you can see I have no protection for my blogs because I think that the effort is futile.
I'v seen posts of mine plainly copied in other blogs. In some cases they give a reference to my blog, and for those I am really happy.
In other cases they have no reference even though they just copied and pasted without any work of their own.
Still, my friends want to restrict copy-paste, so I prepared a list of the available solutions:
Database Version Control
There are two types of projects I am involved in these days.
Usually when a database is upgraded, a new version of the application is issued. If only one application is using the database then application-database sync is easy.
When multiple applications are using the same database then this problem is quite difficult to solve.
This is my solution to database versioning problem:
- Custom enterprise applications where we design the database and manage it.
- Web applications, that we host, where each customer has his own copy of the database.
- Developer databases
- Test database (both internal and customer)
- Production database
Usually when a database is upgraded, a new version of the application is issued. If only one application is using the database then application-database sync is easy.
When multiple applications are using the same database then this problem is quite difficult to solve.
This is my solution to database versioning problem:
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