title: Does Object Oriented Design have a place in web development?
body: <p>I work at a web development shop so naturally we deal with user profiles.  When dealing with one of our sites I noticed that there was no 'User' class, which struck me as odd since we certainly have users.  Instead the site relies on interacting with DataRows (this is C#) returned through static methods with little to no instantiation.  I asked my boss about creating a class for users and his response was that since the objects have to be rebuilt so much its often not worth it.</p>
  
  <p>I am relatively new to web development and it does seem like a bit of a waste to have to instantiate objects each time the page is rebuilt but on the other hand I've always found object oriented programming to be useful.  So I'm curious for some opinions, how much do you guys use OOP in web development?</p>