tweetcrowd - A Web App in a Day
December 24th, 2008
Yesterday, bizarrely, I set myself the challenge of developing a fully functional, usable web application in one day.
Context
This time last year I had very little web development experience. I could use Dreamweaver to hack together table based websites from an “Export to HTML” PSD Image. I could create a database and download/install phpBB / wordpress etc. Since then I’ve started working at an established web development agency, and it became apparant that I’d need to catch up a little on my web skills.
The Objective :
- To learn PHP as a scripting language.
- To learn CSS layout and design.
- To learn SQL queries and database structure.
- To learn how to query a REST API.
I wanted to see how easy these languages were to someone with a very basic understanding of their foundations.
