I agree with every word. She tried to eat soup with a fork, and decided soup can't be eaten with tools.
It's sad that most people's exposure to ORMs is limited to Hibernate and JPA, leading them to draw negative conclusions about the entire technology. We have a large responsibility; to introduce the world to a usable ORM :). Cheers, - hugi On 19.10.2011, at 10:54, Bruno René Santos wrote: > Hey Hugi, > > Continuing the off-topic :) (sorry everyone feel free to ignore this) I have > just watched the clip and yet she has a point I think It is totally > dependent on the amount of logic your project has and also the the > frameworks you're using. For large projects and large teams, worrying about > CSS, HTML, SQL and other low level conceptions on a daily basis can be quite > a nuisance when you have forms and windows layouts with dozens of fields > that need validation, event handling and persistence. I use cayenne for most > of my projects and I dont feel cheated or disconnected from the low levels > of my application at all, but being able to worry with more high-level > concepts on a daily basis it is much more efficient, at least for me. > > Comparing Bakers with Programmers is also somewhat problematic because some > of the best qualities of programmers are not quite good for bakers. For > example lazyness. A good programmer is lazy. We dont want to repeat code all > the time, we dont like to write a lot of code and so we try to find ways to > encapsulate parts of our applications and also find tools that help us do > more doing less (nice concept :)). > > At the clip, in my opinion she used the worst example possible, hibernate. > When I was analyzing ORMs, as most people, I tried to find those pages with > titles like "The Top Ten Things that do this" for ORMs and of course > Hibernate was the first on most lists. But when I tried the learn it or even > use it on a small example I was amazed the amount of documentation and work > you have to do prior to having something working (my lazy side kicked in - > any framework that take me more than a day to do something reasonable is > kinda on the bottom of my list...). And also the amount of programmers > complaining about hibernate was quite large. > > During that time I came across Cayenne and thank god I found it! It took me > no time to use it, the documentation was proper (could be a more organized > but it wasn't a showstopper) and the DataContext was the thing that made > decide for it. I know I am preaching on the same 'church' but even so, for > me, it is the first feature that smashes hibernate to the ground. Come on, > calling .save() for each object and being worried about in what order you do > it is just too much work (I know this is JPA fault but even so...). > > Coming back to the clip, I think tools like Cayenne are those mixes that > chefs use, like I saw so many times on cooking shows where a chef uses > this ingredient and says : "You can get this also fresh but this one is > cheaper, you can get it faster on the supermarket and tastes as good as the > fresh product". So no shame on taking some shortcuts as long as the final > product was cheaper, faster to make and the end user (or eater) is satisfied > with it. > > The real message here should be: chose what you think will help you more and > not what everyone is using it just because (some top manager told you to use > it because all CV's ask for it). > > Regards and sorry again for the off-topic > Bruno > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@karlmenn.is> wrote: > >> Hey, Cayenne Developers! Stop destroying our joy of programming! >> >> http://vimeo.com/28885655 >> >> - hugi >> >> PS: Sorry for the off topic post, couldn't resist… >> > > > > -- > Bruno René Santos | brunor...@holos.pt | Gestor de Projectos | Analista | > Programador | Investigador > > Holos - Soluções Avançadas em Tecnologias de Informação S.A. > Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia de Almada/Setúbal . Edifício Madan Parque > Rua dos Inventores . Quinta da Torre . 2825 - 182 Caparica . Portugal > Phone: +351 210 438 686 . Fax: +351 210 438 687 . Web: www.holos.pt > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for > delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have > received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, > printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this email in error please notify Bruno René Santos by telephone on > +351 210 438 686
