Posted by Ivan Marsh on 07/17/07 21:47

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:35:55 +0200, Henk verhoeven wrote:

> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>> Unless you're doing this as a programming project download one of the
>> many that already exist, install it and customize it to your liking.
>
> BEWARE: the existing one will soon release a new version.

<snip bullshit>

> IOW, sooner or later you need to update, and the longer you wait the
> harder it gets. In the best case you have preparerd for this, use CVS or
> some other version control system to reapply your changes and have unit
> tests so you can quickly veryfy wheather everything still works as
> expected. But we don't live in an ideal world, your updating effort can
> easily become your updating nightmare.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Henk Verhoeven,
> www.phpPeanuts.org
>
> PhpPeanuts is an application framework you can use to boost your
> productivity. It has a specialization layer that allows you to keep your
> own code separated from framework code. Changes are usually specified
> upto individual methods. If an error occurs in development it outputs a
> walkback so you can at least see where it comes from. Building unit
> tests for your own code is nevertheless highly recommended, just like it
> would be if you had built everything from scratch.

So you're telling people not to use other people's software at moment and
promoting your own the next?

Sorry... but I try not to use software written by hypocritical morons.

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