I was working for a company a few years ago who started building a web app in PHP. We had a new PHP developer who was very confident, who had what he claimed wa

I was working for a company a few years ago who started building a web app in PHP. We had a new PHP developer who was very confident, who had what he claimed was a fantastic PHP MVC framework he'd written in his spare time. You can guess where this is going, but because he'd just written it as a framework instead of building it around a product and then extracting it out, the majority of the time was spent shoehorning the product to fit the framework. I'm sure there's frameworks that exist that haven't been extracted from a product that do a perfectly fine job, but I've found that when they fall into the extracted category they've already had a round of battle hardening done, which makes life somewhat easier.