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title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Don't Mess With Things Outside Your Project"
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date = 2019-06-25
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "frameworks"]
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Simple rule: Is the code yours or from your team? Good, go break it. Does it
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come from outside? DON'T. TOUCH. IT.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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