Building your own code base is good if you have the time assuming you dont have existing functions and classes from previous projects. On the other hand a framwork has various advantages in that it has functions and methods ready for use. 

I partially concur with Idd and the other refute for one major reason, a good framework is extensible, scalable, stable after stripping un-used methods/functions and easy to use. For large applications especially where group development is required they come in very handy as very few methods need to be extended or "overridden", on the other hand they are an over kill for small applications.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
There was an argument yesterday as to which is the best way of building your own application like Twitter , Facebook. Would it be better to use a framework or build your own reusable code base resulting in a framework. 

Idd Salim says that a framework ties you down to its way of thinking and coding, and that it eventually becomes efficient to build your own frameworks like Facebook. 
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