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Originally Posted by plsureking
you should be working with a library of functions you've written that will do most of the standard things - data manipulation, writing/reading, calculations, etc.
if you have that, creating a new site script should be hours or days at the most.
its not always best to build instead of buy. it just depends on the scale of the project. if u intend for it to be big - with many partners and employees - then u need to build it yourself so you can customize it as the project grows. if its just a tube or tgp then dont waste your time on it.
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Of course I reuse code. That's not even a question to be asked of anyone who
has wrote more than one program.
Making a tube site that accepted user uploads and converted them to flvs and
made thumbs from the video required new code that wasn't used to run my text TGP.
Not to mention that I made my own flv player that wasn't needed on the TGP.
But what's going to be the next "cool site"? If it's live webmaster chat with
surfers using HTML5 hollography
, then none of my current tube site code is going to do that.
I can't reuse code that doesn't exist.
But if I just wait 5 months then I can get it in a wordpress theme it seems.