How my addiction to web frameworks lost me a Playstation 3

I have a buddy that is a SEO nut. He has a gizillion domain names that basically pay for his Jigaratti lifestyle. Unfortunately, though most of his sites run on php, he refuses to learn the language, and often IMs me for help when he gets stuck on something LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) related. Being that it’s not my real mortgage paying job, his stuff usually takes a back seat to real work. 2 weeks ago, he was desperate, he needed 3 CRUD (create retrieve update delete) apps for 3 already existing databases. He did not care what language I used, as long as it worked. No design work was needed, no fancy css, no background colors, just CRUD forms. In exchange for building the apps , I would receive a brand new PS3. A PS3 is not in the “family” budget right now, so I was excited. I set aside that coming weekend to work on the project. That week, the bastard called me from the store to tell me that he was in Walmart picking up my PS3 and did I need an extra controller? We joked about being able to play it before the weekend was over. All I had to do now was decide what platform I was going to build this on. Had this been 1999 , this would have been a no brainer, LAMP : a few html forms , a connection to Mysql (maybe even put that stuff in a fancy dancy include file) and I would have been golden. As far as the PHP platform has come, you can still do sh** like that today , throw up apps in less than a day. This is why you never want to make PHP your 9-5 job. More on that another time. I decided it would be so much cooler if I used this as an excuse to try out a new framework, Jboss Seam. Read more