Re: Newbie, project..

[Brent Baisley <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My advice is to pick a project that will be useful to you and ideally 
to some people you know, perhaps your friends or family. A little side 
project I just started is a wine log. I've been getting into wine 
lately and so have some of my friends. We have no way of tracking and 
rating what we have drank or comparing notes. Even if my friends don't 
use it, I know I will and get some value out of it. And if my taste for 
wine wanes, I could always change it to track beer, which I will always 
love. So go with something you have some passion about so your heart is 
in it.

My very first project was a football pool which I now run and is in 
it's 3rd year based on PHP/MySQL. Not the easiest project to tackle 
since it has a hard immovable completion deadline, the start of the 
football season. But it also has an assured user base who have to use 
it and are more than willing to express their opinions, not always in 
the nicest way. I use the football pool as my recurring project when I 
want to learn a new language. Previous versions had been written using 
FileMaker, Applescript (ouch!!!), shell scripts (egads!!), and Lasso.



On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Lennart Andersen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I need to find a newbie project to help me learn PHP, I use Linux and 
> have
> apache install with php support! Any suggestions?
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