"There are many ways to achieve developer happiness, but making your core business products a playground for developers seeking novelty is the path to hell."
Excellent point. This also applies to programmers who'd like write everything themselves so that they can learn more in the process. My current job involves maintaining an application that has everything written in-house - logging, html templating, url mapping, validation, form bean binding, scheduling and what not! - all this is possible with just using slf4j, Freemarker, Spring and a bunch of other lightweight libs. Some of the stuff is good and so it makes me think the only reason would have been to become more proficient in OOPs and Java.
Excellent point. This also applies to programmers who'd like write everything themselves so that they can learn more in the process. My current job involves maintaining an application that has everything written in-house - logging, html templating, url mapping, validation, form bean binding, scheduling and what not! - all this is possible with just using slf4j, Freemarker, Spring and a bunch of other lightweight libs. Some of the stuff is good and so it makes me think the only reason would have been to become more proficient in OOPs and Java.