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Developers: Are ORMs Worth the Headaches?
My friend and I were discussing several frameworks which led me to think about some of my preferences for different systems. Having worked with several ORM type of frameworks like Hibernate, ActiveRecord (Ruby On Rails), Zend and Kohana in addition to several in-house systems, my general conclusion is that most ORMs beyond simple CRUD and…
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The Zend Framework: Problems with Controllers, Models and Domain Modeling
In talking with an ex-colleague, I realized that there’s a lot of confusion that takes place in these so-called MVC frameworks. What I’ve noticed is that many have different interpretations of what the Model-View-Controller looks like (typically only getting the view portion correct in implementation). Most controversy in architecture revolves around the Model and the…