Re: Ruby on Rails on i site back up -- WEB400

Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails on i site back up
From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:01 +0100
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Pete Helgren skrev:

I *have* slapped the guy that put those # in the field names and he agreed, in retrospect, that it was a mistake, but who would have known a DB designed in 1979 would still have legs in 2009?

Data lives forever. Code only almost :)

It is interesting to see that the realization that it is much cheaper adjusting existing, battle tested software and data, than starting all over again... again.

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