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Data Locking In a Web Application?
An anonymous reader writes "We recently developed a multi-user application and deployed it to our users. This is a web-based application that used to be a Windows application which was written in Delphi using Paradox databases for the client database. In the Windows application, we used the ability in Paradox to lock records which would prevent users from editing the same data. However, in the web application we did not add in a locking facility for the data due to its disconnected nature (at least that's how I was shot down). Now our users are asking to have the locking back, as they are stepping on each others' edits from time to time. I have been assigned to look at best practices for web application locking of data, and figured I would post the question here to see what others have done or to get some pointers to locations for best practices on doing locking with in a web application. I have an idea of how to do this, but don't want to taint the responses so I'll leave it off for the time being."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint
Seems to think the "to soil" meaning came first, independent of the slang meaning referring to your perineum.
"'tain't [it ain't] the pussy, 'tain't the asshole". This is a modern slang usage.
Next time, check your references before you promulgate such tripe.
It cracks me up how "taint" originally was a noun referring to the perineum - the region between the ass and balls/muff, and now all of a sudden everyone just uses it to mean "to soil". It's so fascinating, how language evolves...
BTW soil, guess where the earth chakra is.
don't forget: "tain't the meat, it's the motion"
http://www.geocities.com/merrystar3/allysongs/ItAintTheMeat.htm
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Taint (n) has its origins in Middle English (as a verb in the sense [convict, prove guilty] ): partly from Old French teint "tinged," based on Latin tingere "to dye, tinge"; partly a shortening of attaint, according to my Mac dictioary. Shows you how newer senses of words can be believed to be "original".
Languages aren't inherently fast -- implementations are efficient