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I need your help winning a major battle for Codeigniter
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[eluser]usmc[/eluser]
[quote author="wabu" date="1250210909"]So I guess CI lost the battle?

I don't see much for the developer/consultant to do in these cases besides make your best effort to educate the company/client about its options as calmly and rationally as possible. Once you've done that it's their money and their decision.

When the enterprise "X" sales guys get in there, notice how all roads lead to "X"?

Hang on, you may not have lost the war--big projects with big technologies fail all the time and the time may come when they need to be "rescued."

If not, you can always enjoy the billing while it lasts and let them worry about the consequences of their decisions, or just move on to greener pastures.[/quote]

CI lost the battle but maybe it won the war. Zend did a really good job of setting this group up to fail. They came in, set up Zend core and charged them tons of money for support. They told them that ZF would fly all around the world and deliver presents to all the good boys and girls and then left. They told the company to hire PHP developers and the company went and hired anyone who said they knew PHP with a heartbeat. Right now they have 10 hobby level PHP "programmers" who are hacking ZF to pieces. Since Zend prides itself on being flexible the devs have bent it every which way. They never set down any best practices (even though the company was billed for it). I mean I can't stop laughing when I see 10 - 12 lines of include statements in a controller action. I have tried to push new fangled web design concepts like "CSS" and graceful degradation to no avail. Right now I am staring at controllers filled with hand typed sql, html templates with in-line styling and of course <b> tags. Yeah I think it was a good thing CI is nowhere near this. I will enjoy it while it lasts.


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