[binarycloud-dev] application framework / development frustrations

[jason <ja...@gr...>]

hi all.
i haven't contributed much to this list or to binarycloud itself, though
i have been following development closely since it's birth.  ...very
exciting stuff so far. =]

i'd like to start this message in the form of a group therapy session by
introducing myself.  i work in the technical department for a company
that deploys various services for clients such as sales
promotions/advertising, print designs, corporate identifications, as
well as all kinds of internet solutions.  this is where my position
comes to life.
i develop websites using all opensource, non-proprietary software.  with
every project i undertake, i find myself inevitably "reinventing the
wheel".  all along, i have envisioned a systematic web application
framework to work under so that with each project, i can simply start
from an already developed system, and thus concentrate on the
application itself rather than all the connectivity/handling routines
needed with every website.

in my search for such a system, i have looked at many content management
systems to no avail.  out of frustration i have begun work on my own
system.  while it is fun to play god in this sense, and create my own
logical structure, the more i examine the direction of bc_r2, the more i
realize that my system is not quite as flexible as it needs to be.
my first impulse is to rewrite my system to resemble binarycloud.  so
after tinkering with this idea for a while, i have found that i am
basically just writing applications/modules that could eventually be
used with binarycloud.

time is of the essense here as it is for everyone in the work
environment, and i feel this is the best system that i've ever seen.  it
is a completely transparent layer for developers to write applications
fast.  there are some things in the system in which i am not yet
comfortable with, but this just comes from my way of thinking known
legacy logic is somehow "better" that new undiscovered technology. (and
i'm only 27, scarey..)

i don't really have a point to this message other than wanting to rant a
bit from my point of view, and to express a keen interest in helping
binarycloud come the reality that it already is in my mind.

jason