Ever since I started using frameworks for my J2EE projects here at work, I cannot help but appreciate how it cuts down the development effort than doing without one. It forces you to observe the best practices. It helps you avoid doing again and again those non-trivial stuff such as escaping the apostrophe when saving to the database.

I also tried learning Ajax before but just did not have enough patience to understand it and then build so-and-so functions from the ground up. Well, there are Javascript frameworks now out there, thank goodness! It helped build Javascript libraries that allows me to write less yet do more.

While link surfing this morning, I was quite surprised that even CSS has a framework. A CSS Framework? That’s something new, well, at least for me. Interesting… So I guess that’s another new thing to read up and try out.