[Phpwm] criticising other agencies

[db_developer at o2.co.uk]

I did include that caveat, however this project isn't legacy it was a 
fresh development delivered as a big mess.

Besides my point was that as far as 'Design' goes there are other 
things to look at other than the visuals. IE the important stuff like 
maintenance and being able to audit your code and your business logic. 

Using a Framework? is that going to help me do that? Is it a lock in?




----Original Message----
From: david at codepoets.co.uk
Date: May 23, 2013 15:12 
To: "West Midlands PHP User Group"<phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] criticising other agencies


On 23 May 2013, at 14:28, db_developer at o2.co.uk wrote:

> When does it become acceptable to critisize agencies and their work?

That's what #phpwm is for ;-)


> I have inherited some code from a well known agency in Birmingham 
and 
> just thought I'd let off some steam.


I'll remain ignorant of the agency or website, but it could well be 
the case that there is a reasonable amount of legacy code involved…. 
perhaps what the site is built on is from $THE_DARK_AGES (when 
everything was black and white) - before and had frameworks, ORMs, 
composer and whatever else? 

Perhaps the agency inherited the codebase from someone else, and 
aren't really responsible for it?

It can also take some time to understand quite why something is as it 
appears …. there have been a number of times I've removed what I've 
thought was horrible looking code, only to effectively add it back in a 
few months later.

David.
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