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A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by BigChiefSmokem »

adamdavis wrote: post #86
CmonDev wrote: post #42

Where is knockout.js, SignalR, ASP.NET MVC, Azure? Call it "hipsterbentobox.io". PS: I am on BitBucket, I know it's not as hip as GitHub - sorry.

Also disappointed about the lack of ASP . MVC.net - but so it goes, I would hope it wasn't being intentionally ignored out of some personal bias. Either way, the site is still a pretty nice resource even if it fails to recognize some stacks.

This is not the first time I've noticed this omittance on HN posts.

Even though ASP.NET is one of the biggest web development frameworks on the planet, used by many, many companies, a lot of these so called web developers pretend like it doesn't even exist. Have they even used C# I wonder?

The Microsoft grudge runs deep in Silicon Valley.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by billnguyen »

Zaheer wrote: post #50
jonhmchan wrote: post #34

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Yeah there's been a ton of suggestions for what the colors should mean but I'm leaning towards something like what you're suggesting!

The problem for me when I was beginning was not necessarily learning each technology, but rather the glue between each. That is what I tend to find confusing and is much harder to find resources for that clearly and exclusively demonstrate how to bridge the different technologies. Would love if you could add those type of items. For ex. I know Node, some Mongo, and am a avid user of Heroku. Recently I was trying to s…

yes, seconded! the most difficult part is not the languages themselves but how to glue everything together...

Does anyone on hackernews have a resource like that? Its been such a pain trying to glue together a site.

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by bliti »

jonhmchan wrote: post #84
zanny wrote: post #75

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This. The boxes are bright, so you would want black text. In general, white text goes with muted backgrounds, black text on bright backgrounds. This hurt my eyes =\. Also, the page starts with black text on white background and transitions to white on colored. I'd stick with one for consistency, in this case, black. Here is what I mean, I just changed the box text color to black: http://i.imgur.com/ENnoGnv.png

That...looks good! I changed the text to be a dark gray. Should be updating soon :)

I would also use a better font. Droid sans would work nicely (its on google web fonts).

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by bjpcjp »

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #90
ShawnBird wrote: post #39

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What a zinger. Unfortunately a basic understanding of PHP is still required for enough tasks that I would recommend learning it early on. It is also a very forgiving beginner language that naturally segways nicely from html/javascript.

Today's most trendy baristas have nothing but negative things to say about PHP. Programmers that use PHP would rebut, but they are too busy paying for their drinks using money they make from actually shipping code.

This needs to be on a shirt. (Probably in very small font.)

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by cliveowen »

brd wrote: post #5

The title and the pitch on the actual site are kind of disingenuous. This is a collection of resources to learn web development. Its hardly a cheat sheet or "everything you need to know". A cheat sheet would be a succinct set of syntax/concepts/examples required to get by. Having said that, its a pretty website and its a worthy cause so please don't take my critique too critically.

It pointed me to this [1] and I gotta say it's well worth it a read if you want a primer on JS, really good stuff, right to the point.

[1] http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by simonswords82 »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #91
adamdavis wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also disappointed about the lack of ASP . MVC.net - but so it goes, I would hope it wasn't being intentionally ignored out of some personal bias. Either way, the site is still a pretty nice resource even if it fails to recognize some stacks.

This is not the first time I've noticed this omittance on HN posts. Even though ASP.NET is one of the biggest web development frameworks on the planet, used by many, many companies, a lot of these so called web developers pretend like it doesn't even exist. Have they even used C# I wonder? The Microsoft grudge runs deep in Silicon Valley.

Came here to ask the same question. We built www.staffsquared.com with .Net, I think it's on par with anything I've seen created with "trendy" languages.
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