Comments on: Your Choice of Web Development Framework Doesn’t Matter

By: Baz L

Baz L — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:08:52 +0000

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that we should be shutting out any new technology. For example, I started out with CakePHP and loved it. But then I also started learning Ruby on Rails. There’s no denying that there is a vast following, so someone must be doing something right.

But, this branching out for me was solely about growth as a Web Developer, rather than trying to pin point the “Perfect Framework”.

By: Henry Jin

Henry Jin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:36:17 +0000

Agree with the author. Don’t keep changing tools. Just be perfectly familiar with one tool and make most of it!

By: Jeena

Jeena — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:10:06 +0000

This is a smart post, man. Thanks

By: Daniel Costalis

Daniel Costalis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:14:11 +0000

And see, I did kinda the same thing you did. I started on Cake, but the tutorial didn’t work (I was using a new beta version at the time or something), and I can’t bear to use an old version of a piece of software. I had similar problems with Xajax, using the beta .5 version, but at least got that working.

I moved to Zend, and got a couple of test apps up and running, but realized that it took me twice as long as if I had coded it by hand.

My decision for now is to stick with doing it myself. I understand how it works, I can make changes where I want when I want and how I want, and it really doesn’t take me much more time to write a few SQL statements, or assign better named variables to $_POST[] and so on.

Once there aren’t articles and blogs all over the place trying to figure out which of the 10 available frameworks are the best/better/usable/pointless, I’m sure I’ll switch over. Until then, I’ll keep my focus on making sure I know HTML5 before the mainstream does, and eagerly waiting PHP6…q