Posts Tagged ‘patterns’

Zend Framework – When your sex life sucks

Posted in Development on February 20th, 2010 by cristi – 1 Comment

Some people wear leather and beg their master to drag them by a chain on all four. And some people come back to the Zend Framework again and again.

When you’re actually a closet masochist and you’re ashamed to tell your partner that doggy style is boring you can use Zend Framework.

It might be late, I might be tired and drowsy, but spending 2 (two) hours to bootstrap a framework just because there are 78 ways of doing and the official documentation assumes you are one of the people who wrote it is plain stupid.

Don’t get me wrong, I preffer using it to starting from scratch (not that using ZF actually gives you anything that does SOMETHING, but at least it provides a contract that you sign, to write cleaner code) but ZF must have been born out of frustration. Someone read Martin Fowler’s site and said: OMG, Class Factory!!! WOW, Singleton, DUDE, we gotta get THIS in!

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