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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Don't Mess With Things Outside Your Project</h1>
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2019-06-25
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/frameworks/">#frameworks</a>
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<p>Simple rule: Is the code yours or from your team? Good, you can make any
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changes you want. Does it come from outside? DON'T. TOUCH. IT.</p>
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<p>Sometimes people are tempted to, instead of using the proper extension tools,
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change external libraries/frameworks -- for example, making changes directly
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into WordPress or Django. Believe me, I've seen my fair share of this kind of
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stuff going around.</p>
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<p>This is an easy way to make the project -- the team project, that is --
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a huge security problem. As soon as a new version is released, you'll -- or,
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better yet, someone who was not the person who decided to mess with outside
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code -- have to keep up your changes in sync with the main project and, pretty
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soon, you'll find that the changes don't apply anymore and you'll leave the
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external project in an old version, full of security bugs.</p>
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<p>Not only you'd end up with something that may very soon put at risk your whole
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infrastructure, you won't take any benefits from things in the new versions,
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'cause hey, you're stuck in the broken version!</p>
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<p>Sometimes doing it so is faster and cheaper, and if you would do the same
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thing using extensions or actually coding around the problem, even duplicating
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the framework functions, would probably take longer and make you write more
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code, but in the long run, it's worth the time.</p>
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<p>Sometimes the change you need is impossible 'cause the framework you're using
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doesn't have any support for extensions. This is the time you'll need to build
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a new layer <em>on top</em> of the framework. Again, this may seem painful and
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changing the framework directly is a lot easier, but you'll have to keep
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updating your patch for newer versions, which may not be that easy. Building
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on top of the framework will at least give you some assurance 'cause the
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exposed API must be way more stable than the internal code.</p>
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/use-structures">If Your Data Has a Schema, Use a Structure</a>
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/resist-easy">Resist The Temptation Of Easy</a> >>
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