The Lazy Dev

I am a software developer and I assume to be a real one and though and serious and pure. I never liked to deal with big all-in-one software packages.
That is not development, is customisation.

But.

Today I was called by a potential customer that needs a small e-commerce for his small business. First idea has been to send him to one site like Shopify. Then I say: calm down, maybe it needs something custom, let's get an appointment, we will see. While talking, my wicked head was thinking about how to develop a e-shop for a reasonable price with the tecnhology I already know. This is madness.

In fact after a few minutes I realised that no mental healthy developer would have developed a e-shop from scratch. By the way, if not for a big amount of money and some certain kind of customer (very big or retarded). Shopping kart, archive, customers, shipping, payment... years!!!

So what: out there there are OFBiz and KonaKart, that I can use for. And maybe also others, these are the two most famouse built in Java. Is this customisation?
For the same reason, I have been hit in the head bt the very recent news that Friendfeed engine has been open sourced by Facebook. This is HUGE guys. I have a couple of web applications I would love to realize that will fit perfectly on such an engine and to develop such a thing for me would require... ages! So with this technology I can focus on the business. I just need to learn python. Well, sooner or later...

So what? I am a developer but I want to be a entrepreneur, also. As a tech entrpreneur I need to deal with this kind of technology, that would allow me the faster time to market and the best technology available as well.

So, my soul is save. The developer will continue to be the serious one, that will never do dumb customisation.
Sometime, I will wear the (technological) entrepreneur hat and will start playing with those kind of stuff.

Phew.