Webdev (shudder)

[dmcaul]

In my current job I spend a fair amount of time doing web development stuff. This isn't an optimal situation because my views on web stuff are locked at about 1998 levels. Things like CSS and javascript are grudgingly tolerated, and clients are given the respect and trust accorded a plague rat (ie: considered incapable of reliably dumping

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[utterlymundane]

Camping is kind of groovy, although it's bigger than claimed because you need ruby and some libraries you might not otherwise have installed. But they're all already installed on utterlymundane -- check out /var/www/omgvelociraptor for some crappy useless examples. Docs are actually not that great, unless I've been missing something. Turbogears (python) is also installed, as is rails. Turbogears has *really good* doc, including 'build a wiki in 20 minutes'. Limited experience, so maybe it's less useful after a while.

For JS, I'm spoilt because of the our bookshelf site at work, but http://www.w3schools.com/ is a good starting point for most things. /var/www/omgvelociraptor has css and camping and no javascript. Check out the apache configs to see how the wonder of fastcgi makes it go.

Modern webdev is a pretty big area, I've only really dipped my toe in :(
Holler if you want anything installed on um, though.

[dmcaul]

Info useful without large server-side frameworks is what I'm interested in at the moment. This is because (a) probably better at covering the fundamentals and not relying on secret magic to make it go, and (b) I'm looking at this for work purposes for now, and installing ruby or python on the embedded platform is a non-starter.

[utterlymundane]

Well, w3schools is still a decent first point of call -- although by no means really enough by itself. w3c have validators, linked from omgvelociraptor. You'll also want firebug in your firefox install, because it's just great. For embedded systems, css should be good for not duplicating information. Not sure how much you'll get out of javascript.

[utterlymundane]

Hm, on rereading, I realise I'm unsure if you only want stuff that will be useful with your current projects, or pointers for stuff you can't work with in work. My last comment was more of the second.