So originally I said “I will not use a object-relational mapper.”\u00a0 My reasons were:<\/p>\n
I’d looked at the Canonical thing, I think it’s called storm, and it looked decent but in my attempted use of it a month or so ago, I hit upon lack of documentation beyond the tutorial which did not explain some basic things, like “how to get your db design to map.”\u00a0 Sort of, you know, what a mapper… should do.<\/p>\n
I do not feel that sqlalchemy is a good choice because it’s just plain too much overhead.\u00a0 I don’t really need an ORM.\u00a0 I need connectivity, and I’ll handle keeping the database in line. I’ve dealt far too many times with software that assumes that if you use a mapper, the database will never get corrupted. Like, you know, 100% of all java db stuff I’ve ever dealt with. In production. Costing me months of time. I hate java; too many “developers” who _can’t._\u00a0 Those who _can_ develop in java never end up working anywhere near me.<\/p>\n
Anyway so with all that background, I said “no” and was busy setting up the db by hand, and – darn it, I went and changed tools. I used to draw stuff up and build the whole design first, then publish; but no I went and was doing it bit by bit using Sequel Pro. No. Bad. It doesn’t … it works but it is NOT a design tool. It is … usable for some stuff I’ve been dealing with at work. With crap db’s designed by people who have no clue. _should have known_ but didn’t think it would be THIS bad.<\/p>\n
MySql Workbench worked well but lately it’s just been PANTS. Meaning “Hi, I will crash now!” and such. Also they don’t do ppc. And… yeah.<\/p>\n
So in short: I will need to probably write my own ORM type thing after this is over. What I need is a way to define the db directly, quickly, and without having breakage upon a change. And very little overhead.\u00a0 I want data, put into an object, and I’ll do the push\/pull when I need to.<\/p>\n
Oh that’s right, another issue with storm was it did not explain in any way, shape, or form how to avoid the problem of persistent connections that needed to be re-attached. Like, if you went to sleep, and they timed out, how to reconnect them the next morning when you were looking at it.<\/p>\n
Anyway not publishing this til after. Just saying, this is one of the things that went awry.<\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2011 4:18 pm","title":"tools"}