Why do programmers write their own blogging engine?
Why do so many programmers write their own blogging engine nowadays? Or why do so many programmers write their own .. anything? Cal Henderson (of Flickr fame) gave a keynote "Why I hate Django" at DjangoCon 2008. In one bit he asked how many of the audience were working on blogging engines. So many people put their hands up, in fact that of those that didn't, he asked "Why aren't you?". This article attempts to answer a single question: Why do programmers write their own blogging engines?
Writing a blog engine is the new "hello world"
We all know what a blog is and exactly what a blog is supposed to do. The blog entries must be created, read, updated and deleted. This is a classical example of a CRUD application, which can be applied to almost anything. Therefore, many frameworks now offer tutorials on how to create a blog in their framework. For example, CodeIgniter offers a tutorial called "learn how to build a weblog in under 20 minutes" (QuickTime alert) and the CakePHP framework and Ruby on Rails have their own tutorials as well. It's the new "hello world"!
The blog domain is well defined and widely understood. Every programmer can, with time and (self-)training, create a blog. It's a great way to learn a framework, or to set up a framework of your own. It's a great way of learning a new web language. When writing a blog, you're almost sure to run into problems with the framework or with the language. Problems that are sure to occur in a lot more websites than just blogs. Writing a blog is a great way to get started with a new language or a new framework. It's a guaranteed success.
The perfect blog doesn't exist (yet)
After a decade of requirements gathering (since 1997), the perfect blog simply doesn't exist yet. And on top of that, no single one blog system is suitable for all bloggers. Some like a minimalistic approach and some like to have as much features as possible. This is one reason many programmers choose to write their own blog system. They can tinker on it forever making it the, in their idea, perfect blog system.
Programmers that find a technology they use constantly, can quickly become obsessed with it and get seriously annoyed at its flaws. They have a tendency to want to do better and fix those flaws or improve the technology. With existing blog engines, that is hard and not very fun, so starting from scratch in a new blog is a good alternative.
Because they can
All programmers are addicted to programming. Fact. You have to be crazy to do the kind of work that we do on a daily basis, and you'd have to have a serious addiction to obscure codes. Writing a blog, apart from the afore mentioned benefits, is something fun for a programmer. There are hundreds of ways a blog can be implemented, and plenty of features to include (or not). This gives the programmer so many design choices, that his freedom is almost unlimited. And if a programmer loves anything, it is unlimited freedom to do as he pleases.
In conclusion, we can say that there are a lot of real benefits to writing your own blog. Apart from being amazingly fun and relatively simple to make, it's something many programmers can use on a daily basis. The fact that you can tinker on your own blog into infinity is also a real bonus compared to large commercial services.
(Some) source and inspiration: Why does every man and his dog want to code a blogging engine? on stackoverflow.
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