So last week the Mole attended the SDForum SAM SIG meeting to hear Ted Neward speak on “State Management: Shape and Storage:object/relational (O/R) impedance mismatches for persistingobjects between transient & persistent states.” This is a topic that has long fascinated the Mole, which, he discovered, is another way of saying that the Mole was not the target audience. Most of… Continue reading OO / RDBMS impedance mismatch
November 2006
Big Ball of Mud
After many years in the academy, on both sides of the blackboard, the Mole made the leap into the so-called real world, i.e., for-profit corporate employment. Many of the Mole’s cherished preconceptions were quickly tossed aside; some were more easily replaced than others. This article helped to explain the massive gulf between everything the Mole… Continue reading Big Ball of Mud
Worse is Better
This is an essay that the Mole rereads fairly regularly. The experience is always unnerving: some parts are obviously right, some are obviously wrong, but which category any particular part falls into is seldom the same from one reading to the next. Regardless of which side of the debate you choose (or, if you are… Continue reading Worse is Better