Howard blogs about the problem http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2005/09/theserverside-software-problems.html
Geoff On 9/22/05, Patrick Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:46 PM > > To: Tapestry users > > Subject: Re: TheServerSide.com moving away from Tapestry? > > > > Matt Welch wrote: > > > http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=36654 > > > > > > In the above referenced thread there is a reference to the TSS having > > some > > > serious issues with the perfromance and UI of their site > > > > To quote from the thread: "These are the two most severe problems TSS > > has right now. Both are related to data, not UI (although we're aware of > > some UI issues too)" > > > > So the UI is not the serious issue, the DB is. > > I dunno how their code looks, but sometimes bad UI design can murder > your database layer even if the DB layer is, itself, nominally sound. A UI > which, for example, evaluates every joined field in a list with a separate > request from the UI e.g. "what is user#1's manager's name? ok, how about > user #2's manager's name ... how about user #1045? ... etc". > > It's been my experience that trying to keep a theoretically sound > separation of concerns between the two layers is usually a recipe for > trouble. Letting the UI hint things to the DB layer about the use cases for > data requests can go a long way towards ameliorating the problem though > without necessarily driving a stake through your design. > > --- Pat > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- The Spindle guy. http://spindle.sf.net Get help with Spindle: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/spindle-user Announcement Feed: http://www.jroller.com/rss/glongman?catname=/Announcements Feature Updates: http://spindle.sf.net/updates --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
