Comments on: Adventures in Monkey Code https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2008/12/28/adventures-in-monkey-code/ Thoughts, rants, and even some code from the mind of Barney Boisvert. Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JAlpino https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2008/12/28/adventures-in-monkey-code/comment-page-1/#comment-149970 JAlpino Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:48:08 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/?p=586#comment-149970 You have to admit though, sometimes it's nice to just build without the use of frameworks. Your app ends up being a dozen or so templates and ridiculously simple to follow, no thinking, just code and go. A perfect holiday weekend project that gets knocked out in a few short hours. You have to admit though, sometimes it's nice to just build without the use of frameworks. Your app ends up being a dozen or so templates and ridiculously simple to follow, no thinking, just code and go. A perfect holiday weekend project that gets knocked out in a few short hours.

]]> By: Ben Nadel https://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2008/12/28/adventures-in-monkey-code/comment-page-1/#comment-149730 Ben Nadel Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:09:17 +0000 http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/?p=586#comment-149730 Barney, Personally, I think that this project is small enough that duplicating the logic in the "save" page for the zip-processing page would have been fine. If you know that your project is going to be and *remain* small by intent, then I don't even think code duplication is an issue. I know this might be heresy, but a little copy-paste-modify does a great job on such small projects. Also, another way to think about this type of a project is as a "proof of concept". Maybe, while building this, you gather ideas that you never had initially. Once you have complete and see the "future" of the application, I think it is perfectly fine to almost start from scratch, this time with a real framework in place. Barney,

Personally, I think that this project is small enough that duplicating the logic in the "save" page for the zip-processing page would have been fine. If you know that your project is going to be and *remain* small by intent, then I don't even think code duplication is an issue. I know this might be heresy, but a little copy-paste-modify does a great job on such small projects.

Also, another way to think about this type of a project is as a "proof of concept". Maybe, while building this, you gather ideas that you never had initially. Once you have complete and see the "future" of the application, I think it is perfectly fine to almost start from scratch, this time with a real framework in place.

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