Posted by Dungeon' Dave on 01/09/06 23:43

... and it came to pass that d <d@example.com> uttered forth:
>
>Writing your own code, if you have the ability, is a much better idea than
>using a package off the shelf. Off-the-shelft packages are rarely tailored
>exactly for how your site is organised, and they can always, without fail,
>be improved on.

True, but plenty of PHP-based packages started out this way and have now
advanced into quite successful beasts thanks to synergised effort from
multiple coders plus long-term experience. Hence I was after something
that I could take and improve on.

>If you just use other people's code, you're not a coder but
>an installer :)

Well, I'd argue against that (see above) since I've taken Xoops,
wordpress, Btitorrent etc and improved their code in plenty of places.
Well, clarified it at least and/or tweaked it to my own requirements.
but learned a lot about how other people do things and good/bad points
of coding along the way.
--

"Dungeon" Dave

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