Hello world! 12 March 2007
Posted by manniwood in Uncategorized.trackback
WordPress.com’s default title for a first blog entry is “Hello world!”. As a programmer, I think this bodes well for my liking wordpress.com.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, World!"
Builder of Database-Backed Web Sites
WordPress.com’s default title for a first blog entry is “Hello world!”. As a programmer, I think this bodes well for my liking wordpress.com.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, World!"
Hello, Manni! Love your rant, above. Look forward to reading more of them.
Nice rant, Manni. However, I think that you’re wishing that you could live in an ideal world, where you can dictate that your relational database is designed in some way that makes sense to you, and that you’ve got the only system that touches it. In my experience that’s rare – often you’re sharing a pre-existing database with other apps, and you don’t get to control when it changes. One advantage of mapping data from database to Objects is that when the database changes, you don’t have to change your whole app, all the way up to the presentation layer (on somebody else’s schedule, not yours).
And getting further away from the domain of the specific problem you’re talking about, if you’ve got different data sources, it can be very nice to have a data layer deal with the differences of the source, and data in a uniform format (not necessarily Object-Oriented, but probably distinctly different from the input format) for any other components which are oblivious to the details of the data sources.
Oh, and if you actually type all of that out in Java, then you need a better IDE :-).