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Re:Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS? by davidw on Saturday September 29, 2007 @06:46AM (#61025)
I basically look at it this way: was it "invented here"? If not, then I build it myself.
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Re:Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS? by nurall on Saturday September 29, 2007 @09:25AM (#61041)
wat do you mean by "invented here"? Sorry for my ignorance.. just wanna make sure
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Re:Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS? by juanpablo on Saturday September 29, 2007 @10:47AM (#61056)
This should clarify it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here

But davidw seems to be thinking this way: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

It might be fun to build you own CMS but, for many of us, could be a distraction from what we actually want to make.

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Re:Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS? by davidw on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:11PM (#61316)
> It might be fun to build you own CMS but, for many of us, could be a distraction from what we actually want to make.

Yes, my answer was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's almost always better to see if there's some open source code you can build on.

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Re:Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS? by nurall on Sunday September 30, 2007 @06:04AM (#61259)
that did help.. thanx
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