I am right now on the train home from work quite late (22:40 local time). The reason I spent so long at work today is because we update after 8 o'clock. However, we found a critical bug in some open software that we use that we do not know why it triggers. We barely even know how it happens! Of course we haven't been able to solve it yet... After personally spending a lot of time with trying to fix the software I can say that I have gotten a much deeper appreciation of tools that are widely used and with an active community, where most bugs have already been solved.

Previously I had believed if you had a tool that solved the exact problems you have, then you should use it. I hope I'll resist such an urge in the future by having a little pragmatic angel on my shoulder reminding me of the danger of underused software. No software is perfect and even tough you might be able to fix software when it is open source, you paint yourself into a corner when you will necessarily have to fix it.

I felt my experience was matching some of the authors woes and I urge anyone that chooses technologies to think one step ahead and learn from our mistakes!