Comments on: When not to use a relational database: generating HTML (for real this time)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:34:26 +0000

I seriously worry about the programmers. Day after day after interminable day of writing this stuff has to take a toll. On a cloudy morning one of them might show up with a shotgun.

So I guess I worry about the other programmers.

By: AOF

AOF — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:02:10 +0000

Ahhh! My eyes! My eyes!

And you’d not only have to be paid by the line but paid DOUBLE to MAINTAIN each line :-D

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:12:53 +0000

The website is just a tiny part of this system. There are 3,600 database tables (all with 7-letter names), 1,800 7-letter Oracle forms, and 570 7-letter reports written in C, all adding up to some 2.9GB of application files.

Now, any large system like this is going to be clumsy. I don’t think I could design it better, just different (8 letter names? 10?). But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to complain about it endlessly.

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:44:49 +0000

Holy hell! I wouldn’t have believed that somebody would build a system like this if I hadn’t seen the code with my own eyes.