Geeking out

by Blake Schwendiman on March 26, 2009

I’ve enjoyed geeking out the past few days, but the example I wanted to show today is taking longer than I had expected, so I have to delay that one. I’m going to do more mini-tutorials and examples over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

If you’re new to this site, please take a look at a few of the recent articles covering topics such as Facebook Connect integration, geolocation, and event tracking using Google Analytics. I also highly recommend familiarity with the following:

  1. Google Code. This site is awesome. Google is constantly updating their public APIs making integrations richer and easier.
  2. Amazon Web Services. I haven’t touched on this much, but as far as mashups and integrations go, Amazon is the service to beat.
  3. jQuery. You better believe that you’re going to need to know Javascript today. If you’re still hacking away at it without a good library, repent now and learn jQuery.
  4. jQuery UI. An amazing set of well-developed UI components and themes for use with jQuery.
  5. Twitter API and Facebook API. Not as fundamental as the above for general web development and integration, but core to social integrations.
  6. PHP. Okay, you can use Python or Ruby or Java or ASP or whatever in the back end. My examples are going to be either PHP or Python, though.

Read up. There will be a quiz.

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March 27, 2009 at 9:53 am

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