Re: Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7

[Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:42 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:

> I think the risk of the KISS approach is that you tend to reimplement
> everything, because everything everyone else has done is overcomplicated.

I share coding within systems (because it means just a single
alternation each time) and have general routines available to all
applications. My definition of programming efficiency excludes senseless
re-implementations of coding.

> It's not that you *can't* do all this yourself, but that you're possibly
> dealing with life at a layer or two lower than you might.  Simply by using an
> existing library (say jpgraph, but it's chosen at random) you get a load of
> functionality (that gets improved over time) without having to implement any
> of it yourself.  You're not simply producing a graph, you're producing code
> that draws a graph and then drawing a graph.  Why write the code?

In this instance I would use a GMagick Draw function from with a
routine. The PHP coding would be minimal and straight-forward.


Paul.

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