Not sure exactly what you are seconding, Martin! :) On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:25 AM mz <ftnewslet...@arcor.de> wrote:
> I second this. > It helps maintaining my own projects, too. > > A couple of years ago I built an app on Boltwire that is still used daily > in our firm. > I need to look into the pages and templates only once or twice a year to > optimize reports or to provide new use cases. > > Problem is: I have some fairly complex templates and pages that I will not > touch again - after the years I forgot how they work and I fear to break > something. > These parts also keep me from updating to 5.x (the system is based on 3.x). > > Today, I spend extra time to keep templates and pages basic and simple so > I can easily update some parts or transfer from one installation to another > fresh one. > That means: using conditions in templates, functions, page headers and > footers sparsely, restrict templates to simple tasks (and name them > semantically), break up forms into maintainable parts etc > > That is my lesson learnt from maintaining projects over the years. > > Greetings, Martin > > > >> PS. I have the same problem with BoltWire--keep wanting to add more >> functionality, but I find the more complex it gets the more prone it >> becomes to bugs, security holes, and mangled output. I get in even more >> satisfaction in finding ways to strip stuff out and make it smaller and >> simpler. :) >> >> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to boltwire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to boltwire@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to boltwire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to boltwire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
