An article at IBM DeveloperWorks is flirting with being the top link on Digg right now, and there’s some surprisingly good discussion going on there. My favorite quote comes from this comment, which explains one of the biggest advantages of a good framework:
Rails (and Django) just makes life easier by combining all the stuff you *should* have been doing but never really got around to (unit tests, MVC separation, humane URLs, etc.). You still have to make a web application, you just don’t need to write an ORM, a templating system, a URL mapper, etc. etc. before you can get to that. It’s the difference between having to build a kitchen before making a cake and just showing up with some flour, sugar, and eggs.
I know what I’m dressing up as for Halloween this year…
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