The irony of it all doesn’t escape me at all. I remember sitting in a small meeting room with my former BioWare colleague Jeff Marvin a couple of years or more ago and we were having a heated debate. The BioWare web site framework was something that we had primarily written in house (many years before) and I was vehemently opposed to moving to an off-the-shelf web framework.
Jeff was arguing quite rightly about some of the many good points about Web Frameworks. I was arguing, quite rightly, some of the many bad points of Frameworks. And so, we came to a stalemate, mostly, and that was that.
Fast forward several years and now working at MySQL (now part of Sun Microsystems) I came into a team that had inherited a home-grown …
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