Welcome to my Web Application Development Tutorials!

Something to know up front, these tutorials are actually being written to organize my thoughts and not yet intended for anyone else to read.  However, if you stumbled across this and are interested, I hope you find it helpful.  If you have any questions or see something that doesn't seem correct, please comment or email me:  marc dot cabrera at gmail dot com

In this tutorial we are first going to go through the basics of several languages, and then move on to how to get them to work together.  After you go through these tutorials, my goal is that you will be a reasonable good developer. Now, I accept that even if you memorized the content of every page, it will still take you a while to click around and put it all into context, but you will still have seen this information, and when you feel an epiphony coming on, come back and read the section you are thinking of.  It really helps.

Why should I listen to you?

I have been working on web applications for 10 years now.  From the very beginning I have been very good with databases and that put me in roles to work on larg-scale complicated applications on the Internet or Intranet, versus simply web pages or basic web sites.  I have worked with Macromedia (Was Allaire back then) Cold Fusion, Microsoft Classic ASP, C, C++, Java and I finally landed with PHP.  All of these server-side languages were accompanied by increasingly complicated JavaScript, XML, CSS and XHTML. For databases, I have used PostgreSQL, MSSQL and MySQL. I also am certified in JavaScript, PHP4 and PHP5.

But that is my experience, not why you should listen to me.  I think you should listen to me because after 10 years, I admit that there is a lot that I do no know.  I accept that everyone on the Internet has a different Idea on how this should work, and that many of their ideas are good.  A person who is willing to learn can be a great teacher.

Where do I start?

As this tutorial is not completed I will tell you the sections I have and a rough percentage of completion.

1. Step 1: Where do I start with HTML           --> 100%
2. Step 1: Where do I start with CSS              --> 100%
3. Step 1: Where do I start with PHP 5           --> 57% (and 20% done with Variable descriptors)
4. Step 1: Where do I start with MySQL 5       --> 87.5%
5. Step 1: Where do I start with JavaScript     --> 0%