Tuesday, August 05, 2008

I don't believe in a framework unless I got the source

As the title said, I don't believe in a framework unless I got the source. The sole reason is the source code is my pass out of trouble (though sometimes it doesn't).

Consider this, you're picking out a framework and after some research you decide to use it in your project. Everybody happy until some weird things happen, you've follow all the procedures still you got this weird things hampering you.

No code = no explanation = hoping that somebody out there also experience this and have their way out so that you could follow them and hopefully your problem will be solved too... finger crossed.

I hope now you know what I mean with having the source code is my pass out of this kind of weird behavior.



Note : I just involved in .NET development, strange errors occurred and it's difficult to reproduce (it is there, 100%!!!). Staring at the code, don't know what is really going on, all that I could do is googling and trying to find a workaround.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How can you use .NET if you don't believe in something without the source? Windows doesn't come with the source. Visual Studio doesn't come with the source. The BIOS in the computer doesn't come with the source.

:)

Santoso said...

With .NET, I have no choice :)

Maybe I'm not clear enough, here I'm talking abt framework for developing an application, not the underlying platform. Though I'd be glad if i were given windows' source code.

bros said...

I agree with you - having the source code does make life easier. However, I would also say that a good documentation and best practices help as well.