Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to make weekend project

Re:Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to... by draz on Thursday May 26, 2011 @11:31PM (#2590345)

I think you should go for a Ruby on Rails / Groovy on Rails / whatever framework. My reasoning? They encapsulate a lot of the configuration files that you don't want to deal with (ugh, Spring is just annoying, with all those XML files... and I'm a Java person!). Moreover, because they're so ubiquitous, you'll find loads of plugins/code samples online for things you're looking to do. It will really cut down on your development time.

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Re:Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to... by iamsidd2k7 on Friday May 27, 2011 @03:32AM (#2590715)

I agree with Darz, Ruby on Rails is good for getting thing upto speed. If you know you can work your way, by simple tutorials. I don't know if you are using MAC/PC but http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html this is a good way to learn how to make website. Also my suggestion would be to learn git, this would help you in long run.

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Re:Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to... by jmjerlecki on Friday May 27, 2011 @09:17AM (#2591321)

Hey thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I am pretty positive I can learn from the tutorials. They seemed pretty geared towards beginners to which is great. And learning Git would allow me to be active on github?

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Re:Ask HN: Non-technical person seeking help learning how to... by iamsidd2k7 on Sunday May 29, 2011 @01:56AM (#2596125)

Yup thats right, plus it will paying off when you need to figure out what changes you made say a week ago. Github is a hosting site for git code repo. Email me on gmail id: iamsidd if you need more help or specific clarification.

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