My name is Adam and I’m a ruby programmer out of Dallas, Texas. That’s pretty much it.
No seriously, that’s pretty much it. WTF are you continuing to read this for? Not like there’s anything else particularly interesting about me. Unless you want me to start rambling about how fun sailing is, or how much I think I can cook but can’t, or my puppy Pixel, or my thorough addiction to coffee and espresso, or the couple dozen novels I’ve read, or how cool my alma mater (LSU) was, or how very single I am, or how awesome it would be to have a trillion bucks, or…
Recent Entry
Thoughts on DataMapper
Background and Anatomy of DataMapper
I’ve had many a conversation with Sam about the target audience for DataMapper and he’s stressed time and time again that DataMapper is meant to scratch itches that ActiveRecord chooses not to (or in some cases cannot at all). Sam’s an ex-.NET developer and there’s no better example of a platform specifically targeted at the enterprise than .NET.
This means that DataMapper is (or will be) more ‘enterprise-y’ than ActiveRecord, which was born from a need to rapidly prototype an application, but that’s Rails’ big draw, really. Here’s a clean, simple, and fast way to get your idea into users’ browsers PDQ and monetize their eyeballs or fingertips.
But it’s been four years since Rails hit the scene and the entrepreneurs who wrote the first Rails applications now have massive user-bases and a geek following that turns each blog entry its developers write into gospel. If they complain about certain aspects of Rails, suddenly all the “rails developers” have second thoughts as well. You see, they dream of their yet another social network competing with MySpace or Facebook and if their role models start whining about scaling issues, they think twice.
Previous entries
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Foxnews flubs up Microsoft-Yahoo bid story
Posted On 05/03/2008 - One of these things is not like the other….
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Moving On Up (from DataMapper 0.3.x to 0.9)
Posted On 05/01/2008 - Lessons Learned During an Upgrade
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Starting a Merb + DataMapper project
Posted On 04/12/2008 - 7 easy steps to get started with a Merb and DataMapper project.
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Oral Filtration
Posted On 04/06/2008 - Freud would have a cow
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My Relationship With WordPress
Posted On 03/30/2008 - Bitter Embattlement with A Blogging Behemoth
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Highlights from Previous Versions Of The Site
Posted On 03/30/2008 - Some Content from a previous version of the site
From the Cutting Room Floor
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Dynamic layouts in merb
Posted On 04/07/2008 - Mix and match layouts per controller in merb
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Contextual Validations With Datamapper
Posted On 02/23/2008 - Validatable, Group Validations, and Validates_True_For
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An Argument for Datamapper—Properties
Posted On 02/23/2008 - Properties, Migrations, Rspec expectations
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How to Do Things With Datamapper
Posted On 12/17/2007 - Basics and not-so-basics for using DataMapper
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