The Power of WordPress, or how to leverage a robust platform to speed development. I’ve grown so accustomed to WP functions and resources that I find myself including the WP files as a base to work from even when what I’m doing has nothing to do with blogging.
Code re-use is wonderful, but the danger, I fear, comes from 1) functions not being renamed to make sense within the new application framework and 2) using a wrench for a hammer. Now, I know that you, as a WP dev, know the functions intimately, but I always worry that people who have a less-firm grasp of what the code does and why will use stuff in … funky ways.
But hey, that’s the joy and pain of OSS.