"value":"<p>I've been surprised to still recently find software development agencies using their own proprietary content management systems and frameworks.<\/p><p>With so many available open source options, like Drupal and Symfony, why would people write their own?<\/p><p>Why spend the time and effort to build basic functionality like user registration and login when existing tools already solve that problem?<\/p><p>Why ignore the thousands of open source modules, themes, plugins, packages and libraries that are available?<\/p><p>Instead, leverage the tools that already exist and focus on solving domain-specific issues and writing code that's genuinely specific to the project.<\/p><p>Then you can contribute some of the saved time back to the project and make it better for yourself and others in the future and ready for the next project.<\/p>",
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"processed":"<p>I've been surprised to still recently find software development agencies using their own proprietary content management systems and frameworks.<\/p><p>With so many available open source options, like Drupal and Symfony, why would people write their own?<\/p><p>Why spend the time and effort to build basic functionality like user registration and login when existing tools already solve that problem?<\/p><p>Why ignore the thousands of open source modules, themes, plugins, packages and libraries that are available?<\/p><p>Instead, leverage the tools that already exist and focus on solving domain-specific issues and writing code that's genuinely specific to the project.<\/p><p>Then you can contribute some of the saved time back to the project and make it better for yourself and others in the future and ready for the next project.<\/p>",