Since Christmas is coming in just a few days, I wanted to share with you not one, but two, musings on current development tasks.  The first part deals with the decision process to continue modifying an existing website vs. rebuilding it from the ground up.  The second part deals with a new technology stack we're using Twilio (Voice/SMS communications in the Cloud) combined with SalesForce.

In my line of work, it seems like web application revisions are easiest if I'm inheriting a well-documented, understandable app wherein I can easily determine which classes produce what functionality.  When one cannot ascertain how the inner workings of a web application is developed, it is almost impossible to make any changes to the site.  I am a firm believer of providing customers with documentation of how I designed their application.  They may choose to wallpaper their bathroom with it :) or they can file it and pass along to the next developer they hire (if it's not me).  Either way, the customer knows how their...