The 8BIT Network is currently running two series of articles geared at budding web developers looking to become more familiar with basic web development technology.
Check ’em out…
- Writing Your Own URL Shortener with the Google URL Shortener API takes you through the process of writing a basic URL shortener and expander using the Google API. The tutorial covers HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and the Google URL Shortener API
- The Beginner’s Guide To Writing a jQuery Plugin is a series dedicated to bringing client-side developers up to speed on how to create their own plugins using proper jQuery-based development practices.
- The Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up a Development Environment will guide you through understanding all of the components of a development environment – from a stack, to environments, basic file version control, setting up an environment, and more.
- How To Setup a WordPress Development Environment walks you through the steps needed to setup a WordPress installation that’s great for theme and plugin development and will provide the foundation for future series.
- The Complete Guide To Writing a WordPress Widget provides a complete walkthrough of how write a WordPress Widget from the ground up. This tutorial goes through the process of brainstorming, mockups, writing code, and leveraging the WordPress Widget API documentation.
- The Beginners Guide To Understanding Ajax is a short, simple tutorial defining exactly what Ajax is and how it works. It also provides a working example of how to build a very simple Ajax-enabled application in order to explore what goes into writing asynchronous code.
Try them out and let us know how you like them – keep ’em up or forget about ’em?
[…] this as the way to go for those of you looking to get your feet wet.The team has started to run series of guides for getting started with different types of development and we’ll likely cover Ruby and Rails […]