Reality-Loop

Need a break - care for a flame-war?

September 17, 2009 | 1 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

flame.jpg If this is another of those days, getting bogged in the trenches of enterprise IT, here might be your entertaining break:

There is an exceptional flame-war going on between Alex Yakunin of ORMBattle.net and Ayende!

Some of the skirmishes are listed here:
  • The beginning: ORM Battle.net: The ORM Tool Shootout
  • The main battle lead by Ayende: Benchmarks are useless, yes, again (check out the comments ...)
  • Ayende: Benchmark cheating, a how to
  • Alex: Are results of this test suite really important? Part 1. Why I don't believe Oren Eini.
  • Ayende: How to lose respect and annoy people


  • And if this is not enough, check out this flame-war of Bob Lee and Gavin King: Comments on "Annotations for Dependency Injection"

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