My vote: listen to Dave. Quick and Dirty usually ends up Slow and Expensive and Dirty.
Chuck On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Steve Peery wrote: > You are probably right. I too have paid for trying to "make it more > efficient" many times in my coding career. > > Steve > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:13 PM, David LeBer wrote: > >> >> On 2010-08-12, at 2:05 PM, Steve Peery wrote: >> >>> I have an EO object that I want to have a to many relationship to a String >>> object. I could create an EO object to hold the string and do a standard to >>> many relationship but it seems wasteful. Is there a better way? >>> >>> Steve >> >> I will preface this with "I have no idea what your requirements are" but >> speaking from experience: Anytime I've tried to cheap-out and take the quick >> and dirty route with my model I've always regretted it. I would just bite >> the bullet and model the relationship to an eo. I can think of a bunch of >> downsides of working with a relationship modeled as an array or similar, and >> not many upsides. And given the tools (EOGeneration, Migrations, etc) it's >> not really a big deal to do it right. >> >> ;david >> >> -- >> David LeBer >> Codeferous Software >> 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' >> site: http://codeferous.com >> blog: http://davidleber.net >> profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber >> twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld >> -- >> Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: >> http://tacow.org >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/chill%40global-village.net > > This email sent to [email protected] -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
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