[historygirllfc]

Has anyone done this? Is it worth it? I'm just thinking of doing this as a learning process.

[Mythriel]

Yes it is worth it as a learning process. If you develop it using a MVC arhitecture, OOP style, use some Design Patterns and do some Unit testing then you will have a great and fun learning experience. Best of luck

[rallport]

Mythriel, on 05 February 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Yes it is worth it as a learning process. If you develop it using a MVC arhitecture, OOP style, use some Design Patterns and do some Unit testing then you will have a great and fun learning experience. Best of luck

* rolleyes *

Look at the OPs experience - he's a beginner.

[Renaissance-Design]

rallport, on 07 February 2012 - 10:57 AM, said:

* rolleyes *

Look at the OPs experience - he's a beginner.

Look at the OP's gender - she's a beginner.

OP: it's a great thing to do as a learning exercise, but don't expect to be able to use what you create live on the Web unless you also learn some quite in-depth stuff about security as you go.

[Skateside]

I'm actually slowly doing this myself right now. It's good fun, but a very slow process. You'd be surprised what has to go into it

• What's the best way to make the database searchable?
  
• How do you convert the stuff you type into valid HTML
  
• How do you prevent spam comments appearing?
  
• What will your URLs look like?
  
• Will you have tags, categories, both?
  
• How do you protect your admin-panel so you can post but others can't?
  
• What will your front-end look like and do you want to be able to change that occasionally?

Still, I'd recommend going for it just for the fun of learning

[nublue]

historygirllfc, on 05 February 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

Has anyone done this? Is it worth it? I'm just thinking of doing this as a learning process.

I'd say anything is worth doing if you can learn from it. As mentioned, I wouldnt go into it with the mindframe of making something to actually use, but certainly as an exercise which will expose you to a lot of different practices and skills, it is worth doing.

I would suggest using something established such as Wrodpress for a commercial blog.

[FizixRichard]

Mythriel, on 05 February 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Yes it is worth it as a learning process. If you develop it using a MVC arhitecture, OOP style, use some Design Patterns and do some Unit testing then you will have a great and fun learning experience. Best of luck

I would say, if we are going to talk about good OOP coding styles and design patterns, for a beginner, to look at something more easy going than MVC. I mean textbook MVC architectures get professionals into a muddle and concepts get confused.


To the OP, I would go for it as a blog isn't a hard application to build. I would agree with Mythriel to look at OOP and come up with a good design pattern, avoid MVC though as you'll probably end up having a nasty headache.

Simply learning how to structure an application into reusable class based modules and separating your application into layers without using an MVC architecture is perfectly acceptable even in a professional production environment.


That said most good design patterns are some kind of MVC-like architecture or a halfway house that achieves the same thing.

This post has been edited by FizixRichard: 07 February 2012 - 03:12 PM

[gormo7]

Haha i read the first reply, (im a beginner too) and my jaw just dropped....good advice though!

Also i know of a Full time Web Developer job going in West Yorkshire if anyone is interested. Send me and email from my profile if you want.