Sadek Drobi’s Blog

November 10, 2008

RefX:: ORMs, Relational Data, Mismatch, LinQ and DSLs

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Having worked with several Object-Relational mapping frameworks in the last few years, I got to a point where I couldn’t justify their complexity in my project. We often talk about the mismatch between the database and the object worlds, and that is where ORMs are often sta

ted and referenced for “bridging the gap”!

Well I prefer to call it lifting the gap, or highering the gap, to have it now between DAOs and the rest of the code than having it between database and code.But I wouldn’t call this in any way reducing the gap.

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October 5, 2008

Opinions: Measuring Programmers’ Productivity

Filed under: Delivering Value, InfoQ, Productivity — Sadache @ 6:48 pm

In the field of software development, managers need measurable metrics to appreciate the performance of their programmers. Shahar Yair and Steve McConnell discuss common techniques focusing on source lines of code and function points. They highlight the limitations of these approaches and seek to define some principles that could guide the analysis of programmers’ performance.

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