On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 07:40 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > >> I would like to explore rewriting the shopping cart in Django. >> The reality of the matter may make it difficult. Working >> literally from the time I awake to when I go to sleep and not >> having enough hours to complete everything I set for myself >> makes it difficult, >> > > The reason for using a framework is because web development is hard work -- > the creators of these frameworks have gone before you doing much of the hard > work so you can concentrate on your domain-specific tasks instead of the > infrastructure. > > When you want to drive across the country, do you begin by procuring all > the land in between and then paving your roads? No...you leave that to > people who do infrastructure full-time (and with lots of experience in this > area). You just get in your car and drive to your destination (your > domain-specific task) and let the professionals deal with the > infrastructure. That common infrastructure investment is then shared > between many users with widely different destinations. > > So you may find that, by switching to a web framework, you actually end up > *saving* time because you don't need to recreate all the work of building a > framework. Given that tens of thousands of development hours (by some very > smart & very experienced people) have gone into some of the big-name > frameworks such as Django, those are tens-of-thousands of hours that *you* > don't have to spend. > I understand. Thank you. beno
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