Web & Application Development
Microsoft or Open Source Business needs/requirements VS Developers Preferences
Things to think about What does my website do? What data does my website need to store? How do I want it to look like? How do I want to interact with it? What reporting will I need?
Useful Websites (tutorials) W3schools CSSZenGarden Tizag DynamicDrive GOOGLE
Useful Software For Web Development Xampp (Apache2, MySQL, PHP) (LAMP,MAMP,WAMP) CMS (Typo3, Wordpress) DreamWeaver, Zend Studio, PHP Dev Studio, JCreator, Eclipse, NetBeans and others Valuable Languages PHP, Java, C#, VB.net, SQL, CSS, JavaScript
Useful Software For Application Development NUnit SVN, GIT, Team Viewer (Version Control) Notepad++ Visual Studio (Free Ed) (C#, C++,C, VB.NET) Valuable Languages Java, C#, VB.net, SQL MySQL or MSSQL
Things to think about What does my application do? What data does my application need to store? How do I want the application to look like? How do I want to interact with it? What reporting will I need?
Useful Software For Mobile App Development Objective-C, (Apple iDevices) iPhone SDK /index.action Java, C++,C (Android) Android SDK Custom Tools Thing to research: Do you want your app to be on one market or both?
Design Visualisation MS Visio MSSQL/MySQL (Table Views) UML (Unified Modeling Language)
Acronyms CSS –Cascading Style Sheets UML – Unified Modeling Language PHP – PHP Hypertext Preprocessor CMS – Content Management System SQL – Structured Query Language SDK – Software Development Kit SVN - Subversion