I had been struggling for months to get something working within a very popular and well written package of open source software. And I wasn’t getting anywhere.<\/p>\n
It’s not that there was anything wrong with the software package. It’s more that it was more of a mismatch o goals: The package was built for chopping logs, and I was trying to perform delicate surgery.<\/p>\n
Finally, a few days ago, I gave up trying to work within somebody else’s framework, and I just implemented everything I needed from the ground up.<\/p>\n
Generally you are told that you are not supposed to do this, to “reinvent the wheel”, as it were.<\/p>\n
Except that in this case the results were spectacularly successful. My stripped down implementation works incredibly well. And because I wrote it, I actually understand it. Which means that I know how to customize it in any way that might be needed.<\/p>\n
It was as though I had opted to walk away from a sophisticated machine shop, and instead had chosen to work with a simple lump of clay.<\/p>\n
It’s true that there are many things you can create with a high powered machine shop that you can’t make out of a lump of clay.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, it’s also true that there are many things you can create with a simple lump of clay that cannot be fashioned with even the fanciest of machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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