We Are All Wrong About Software Design

We have access through the internet to tons of different opinions and opposite arguments. This makes it difficult to built one's own judgement.

But that doesn't mean everything is equal. You will always find people with divergent opinions; that doesn't mean everything is true, or that everyone is wrong.

I'm the author of the post, mine was sarcasm.

I wanted to explain two things:

1. A Design pattern or an opinion can be right for some people, wrong for other. There is no such thing as absolute truth.

2. Indirection in software development is a subjective matter. MVC can be fine for some people, not enough or overkilling for other. But argumenting things with "My solution works" or "I use it in my successful business" is nonsense.

That questionable Ruby snippet isn't something that I'd use for real.

After reading the article twice I still don't know if he's against or in favor of software design and what exactly this text wants to tell us. Am I the only one?

I have no idea what the author rails (I'll get my coat) against in his blog post. I think he's being too passionate to be coherent. On a more serious note: I don't like the way he equates personal preference to job suitability - I don't think they should overlap (OK, in an ideal world).

I hope the author of that post was just bored to death and very drunk. Otherwise, he had better see a shrink.

straw man if I ever saw one.

not liking an orm doesn't mean putting sql in a template is acceptable.