If Not CGI...

[Tim Chase]

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.

-tkc