-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Terence,
On 3/17/12 7:16 PM, Terence M. Bandoian wrote: > On 1:59 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> >> I've been there. I was on a consulting gig once where we >> replaced about 70% of the code of the product with 3rd-party OSS >> libraries that had been written after the inception of the >> project, but the original developers never had the inclination to >> switch. Things like logging frameworks, O-R mappers, and even a >> rudimentary XSLT engine (but it wasn't called that at the time). >> >> It's amazing what people will write all by themselves. >> >> - -chris >> > > What are the origins of new tools and development practices? Do you mean where did we get the libraries and stuff? Well, ASF for one... > I too am amazed by what people can and do write all by themselves. I meant that far too many people suffer from NIH[1] syndrome. - -chris [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9nQDEACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDrdQCgqel8fM/gtuMtNSlqNnqKpMEY iysAoIhJc2Va2Lo8OOGp5TJZW1YJqj9r =pdF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
