Lots of people have the itch to write their own frameworks. They think that they can do better than Zend, Cake, Symfony, or application-level frameworks like Drupal. They’re convinced that those designers and developers made fatal flaws, and they can improve upon them. They’re just itching to give it a shot.

So for those of you wanting to write your own frameworks, feel free. But don’t even think about putting it in production until you’ve read this blog post.



Lots of times new developers are shot down from writing their own frameworks by bosses or community members who insist that “NIH” (not invented here) has no place in their organization or language. They’re told that the existing frameworks are the “gold standard” and that they should take the time to learn those, instead of toying with their own.

To me, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. When comp sci students are attending school, they (hopefully) learn C, even though that there are higher level languages that do many of the low-level functions of C automatically. Why do they do that? Because they