Introduction to the Yii Framework | Larry Ullman

Introduction to the Yii Framework | Larry Ullman: "In 2009, I had three decent-size Web sites to develop, so I thought I might try using a PHP framework for the first time, instead of coding everything from scratch. I’ve used Ruby on Rails for Web development before, so I’m comfortable with frameworks and the MVC architecture, but I wanted to educate myself on PHP frameworks. After researching a handful of frameworks, and after an unsatisfying attempt to use Zend Framework, I finally settled on, and really came to appreciate the Yii Framework. At the time, the Yii Framework was still quite new, and there are still bugs to be worked out (for the more advanced stuff), but Yii works so well that it’s very easy to use. In this first of several posts on the Yii Framework, I just discuss setting up and testing Yii."

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Those evil frameworks and their complexity - Java Code Geeks

Those evil frameworks and their complexity - Java Code Geeks

Frameworks like Hibernate and Spring are industry-standards. JSF, EJB and the likes are also standards and used in many applications. But there are always people that are against these frameworks. The usual arguments against using frameworks are:

• it is very complex, we don’t need it
• we can make our own framework that will be better for us
• we doubt their quality and don’t think they can do the job
• we don’t want to learn yet another framework, core java should be enough
• we’ve never heard of those…what’s so good about them?

The bad thing is you can’t argue with these people. And if they happen to be leads or architect – here’s another screwed project.

 

Are Frameworks Making Developers Dumb? | Javalobby

Are Frameworks Making Developers Dumb? | Javalobby

Last week I got to take interviews to hire senior Java developers with around five years experience. But after the interview process was over I felt like that frameworks are making developers life easier, but at the same time making them dumb. Everyone puts almost all the new frameworks on their resume claiming they have "Strong, working experience on Spring, Hibernate, Web Services etc".

Here is how the interviews went on.