It pays to network. I definitely pays to talk to friends who have experience doing what you are working on. It really pays to listen to them before you get involved in your project. This is the second time I've discussed my web program with a friend and I've heard, "Have you checked out Ruby on Rails?" The first time I blew it off since I was already learning PHP/MySQL and didn't feel like starting over from scratch. This time I paid attention. Probably because of the following conversation:
Me: "Oh, I'll look but I just finished creating the user management system. I don't want to start from scratch again."
Friend: "This is going to sound insane, but Rails is so much better at that that it may very well actually be worth rewriting."
This particular friend is fairly practical. He's not the type to suggest rewriting just for the fad of the day. If he suggests it there's a reason so I decided to check it out. I did a quick scan of a tutorial. Oh my goodness! It's beautiful. It takes out all the mundane, annoying parts of web programming and makes them just happen while leaving you free to do the creative side of things. If it's as good as it looks I can throw away everything I've done except the database design and still save time in the long run. I just wish I'd listened to the first person who mentioned it to me. Starting tomorrow it's time to back up and restart. However I think I can make up most of the time in a week or two at most if it's as good as it looks!
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