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by russell
6292 days ago
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/warning: rant ahead. I'm at work on a Saturday. I really sympathize with the OP, because I inherited a web based enterprise system that was built using as many open source packages as possible. It appears to be something north of two dozen; some of which I have never heard of. Have you ever tried googling for "barbeque software"? (I found it, barcode scanner.) I am a big believer in getting your core compancies down cold. I'm in the Java world, so that's a given. If you are serious into business, you must have a good understanding of SQL. I am now going through hell because the previous developer wrote his object hierarchy in java and XML and let Hibernate put his database together. Now I have serious performance problems, along with mysterious bugs. I see too much of the attitude of adding layers of adding layers of abstraction to allow them to to use the Java mindset. God sakes, people. SQL is way more powerful than Java. Use it. The same thing with JavaScript libraries. Don't pull in a 100K library to get a couple of useful functions. Write them yourselves. Avoid getting caught in a maintenance trap. |
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While I agree with a lot of the rest, I'm not sure I understand this part... a 19k library (jQuery) that gives you a single DOM interface that fully takes advantage of JavaScript and works in every major browser is what will keep you out of the maintenance trap, not writing/maintaining that interop code yourself.