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.
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