Comments on: HTMLPurifier just saved me countless hours http://www.karlkatzke.com/htmlpurifier-just-saved-me-countless-hours/ Geek of the Week Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Robert Stackhouse http://www.karlkatzke.com/htmlpurifier-just-saved-me-countless-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 Robert Stackhouse Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:46:06 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=292#comment-1243 Karl, couldn't agree with you more. Re-inventing the wheel for anything other than purely educational purposes is pretty dumb (from the stand-point of developer tools). However, many people choose to try to offer a more usable or better looking or faster performing version of this or that commercial product. That is competition, and , at least in theory, keeps us from having nothing but mountains of crappy software. It has been my experience that developers re-invent the wheel most often because they don't know the wheel has been invented. There are probably a great many well written tools that are just poorly publicized. Another big reason for re-inventing tools is that they aren't cross platform or can't easily be invoked in anything but the language they were written in. Karl, couldn’t agree with you more. Re-inventing the wheel for anything other than purely educational purposes is pretty dumb (from the stand-point of developer tools). However, many people choose to try to offer a more usable or better looking or faster performing version of this or that commercial product. That is competition, and , at least in theory, keeps us from having nothing but mountains of crappy software.

It has been my experience that developers re-invent the wheel most often because they don’t know the wheel has been invented. There are probably a great many well written tools that are just poorly publicized. Another big reason for re-inventing tools is that they aren’t cross platform or can’t easily be invoked in anything but the language they were written in.

]]> By: Colnector http://www.karlkatzke.com/htmlpurifier-just-saved-me-countless-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1240 Colnector Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:06:50 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=292#comment-1240 Code reusability makes the web go round :) Many times a true developer's work is not to reinvent the pieces but to connect them into the application. Code reusability makes the web go round :)
Many times a true developer’s work is not to reinvent the pieces but to connect them into the application.

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