notes on podcasts

feb 1 - good herdingcode podcast with rob conery, part1: nosql, part2: asp.net mvc good / webforms bad

• "why do we have this fetish with making everything normalized? #nosql"
• "there IS no mapping so you don't have to worry"
• "of course a static language is not as good a fit as a nice dynamic language #nosql"
• "nosql means lots of null guards, type checking, and dealing with property bags"
• "I don't have foreign keys, I have nested relations"
• "I've got a class in there that basically defines the same thing as another class but make it a bit more palatable so I don't get yelled at by the codebetter guys."
• "hibernate bleeds into your application"
• "I ripped through my blog with mongo"
• "stored procedures --> ORM --> nosql"
• "the policy is spread across 30 tables, with a document database it would be: here's your policy #nosql"
• "one worry about nosql is can my manager pick this up: but if it's just an object, you can pick it up"
• "joins are expensive, pointers are just part of the fabric #nosql"
• "if you store C# objects in your database what happens in 10 years? that's why document dbs are better than object dbs #nosql"
• "if greenfield then mvc"
• is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database
  MongoDB, more info
• "I tried webforms again and honestly couldn't remember how to use it"
• "using webforms is easy, you just think spaghetti instead of lasagne"
• "mvc still doesn't have a good component control story"
• "the power of rails is it's an opinionated thing, mvc could use some of that"
• "people say they aren't smart enough to go from webforms to mvc, but if you can understand the page life cycle, you can learn anything"
• "some people make a career out of not learning anything new"
• "webforms is a lifestyle choice"