Last week, I talked about using WordPress as an application platform – once again, even – but Ted Waller brought up an interesting comment that I’ve not heard (at least here on this blog) that I wanted to discuss a bit more.
Specifically, Ted said:
Whether or not it’s wise to use it as the final application framework, I do think it’s very good for rapid prototypes of web apps.
And what really caught my attention about this particular comment was that I’ve not often heard of WordPress as being a tool for rapid application development (or RAD).
The thing is, RAD – for whatever reason – has often been used whenever someone is talking about prototyping an application or doing some type of development, but nothing that’s seriously ready for prime time, for the enterprise, or for whatever term you’d opt to use.
But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered:
- Is rapid application development misunderstood?
- Is WordPress truly good for RAD or is it the best of both worlds?