Topbit Technicals

Just a quick tip here, and I’ll expand on it below the cut.

When you have a library, like PEAR or Zend Framework – or ven just the whole PHP language library – it’s absolutely vital you know what it can do.

What you don’t know can cost you weeks of effort and pain. I found this out (again) today, but it’s not my pain – it’s an employee who was too busy deciding that the Zend Framework wasn’t suitable for a simple cron-script task, he has spent most of the last few weeks duplicating something that is not as good as what I could write – with ZF – in about an hour.