Changing a development framework for a CMS is not quite a replacement. It could easily have been Joomla or Wordpress he could have chosen to be the "Most wonderful" replacement.
I am not shooting it down or criticizing him at all. For all I know it is the best thing since sliced bread, however in my opinion it is "giving up" on building custom websites.
Interesting how many modern day web developers call themselves web developers and then install a CMS and "customise" it with plugins and themes developed by someone else.
I am not saying the patched interakt stuff we are trying to keep going is still the best there is but it has given me the opportunity to think outside of the box and come up with unique solutions to unique problems.
I will never forget the day I had to come up with a mysql query to list in ascending order the distance a person can travel from a known geo location at $XX per mile to known geo located points taking the curvature of the earth into consideration and having a limited budget. Where the know destinations geo locations are listed in a mysql database.
I still see this as one of those "lightbulb" moments when developing became more than just "filling in blanks" and installing scripts for me but a challenge that needs solved.
For those interested here is the query.
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SELECT *,(((acos(sin((".$row_rs_location['deci_lat']."*pi()/180)) * sin((`deci_lat`*pi()/180))+cos((".$row_rs_location['deci_lat']."*pi()/180)) * cos((`deci_lat`*pi()/180)) * cos(((".$row_rs_location['deci_long']."- `deci_long`)*pi()/180))))*180/pi())*60*1.1515) as distance FROM destinations WHERE %s ORDER BY `destinations`.`full_name` ASC", $colnameAZ_rs_distance
Where "%s" is the maximum distance the person can travel within his budget.