I’ve been spending a little time tonight white-boarding out some ideas and Apps I will be working on shortly on the side; both alone and with some other developers.

During my planning tonight, I started to think about the first few bits of code and started wondering…do I use the great Zend Framework I have been using at my day job, or do I start my own? The benefit of Zend is it is done already and very tight. Doing my own will keep the code base much smaller and more focused on what I need from it though.

Regardless, I love working on these types of things. Like when I was writing plugins and all sorts of crazy shit for Wordpress while I was with Dow Jones. I wonder if the Tumblr guys are using a framework or if it is all home brew.