Web Development by Alistair Robinson

These have been on my to-do list for a while:
1. Write some site or application in Django
2. Begin doing test-first programming
3. Begin using Subversion
4. Learn Python
Notice the order of these items. My sensible self says I should do it the other way around. “You’re not hacking PHP now, you know. This is serious stuff. A strategic and organized approach will benefit you and others.”
I find it disturbingly easy to reject these sensible admonishments. Who wants to be sensible? So I’m taking the items in the order presented above, and I’m currently at step 1, tentatively building a real-world side-project in Django, which may come to something. In fact, I’m fairly sure we’ll use it just amongst ourselves, at least (here … read on »