An Aversion To Other People's Frameworks

Shane McChesney is right - so many developers don't like to use canned frameworks and prefer to write their own. At the end, the result is the same and often, the new framework is underpowered.

I just experienced the same feeling when I was taking a look to a custom content management tool written with PHP and in development since many months. This tool is awful and provides so few features when compared to something like Zope. Some of our intranets as well our newsletter are running with Zope and most of the time, I don't write any line code to make them running. Even the custom management tool used to handle the newsletter was done in half a day with Zope.

What I like in Zope is that it just comes with things for free. Create some ZClasses and you get WebDAV editing, version control and tons of features without any coding! Many times I wanted to write my own tool but I'll never be able to reach the same level of bang for the money.

Get a life, stop coding and try Zope.

12:05:51 AM