Michael Conigliaro

This is easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever found online. I highly recommend Physics for Future Presidents.

Let me be the first to say that ORM (like Propel) is ridiculous, overengineered nonsense. SQL is already simple. In fact, it was originally designed so that (competent) non-computer people could easily generate reports from a RDBMS. So why does anyone think it’s a good idea to add unnecessary overhead and complexity to something that already works well? Oh yeah, because ORM makes it possible to write your own blog in 15 minutes. Wow. Totally awesome dude.