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A Baseline for Front-End Developers

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Basic Programming

• http://www.codecademy.com/

PHP*

• http://php.net/manual/en/index.php
• http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101-php-for-the-absolute-beginner/

Javascript*

• http://www.codecademy.com/
• http://jqfundamentals.com/
• http://shichuan.github.com/javascript-patterns/
• http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

SQL* (+ Stored Proceedures)

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/databases/sql-for-beginners/
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/stored-routines.html
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-stored-procedures/

HTML*

• http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
• http://html5tutorial.net/

CSS*

• http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html-5-and-css-3-the-techniques-youll-soon-be-using/

One of Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, Clojure and one of C, C++, D Haskell

• http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
• http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

Tech

Apache*

• http://www.sitepoint.com/installing-apache-tutorial/

MySQL*

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/tutorial.html

Mongo or CouchDB

• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial/

In-Memory (/Cache) DBs redis & memcached

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/faster-php-mysql-websites-in-minutes/
• http://phpmaster.com/an-introduction-to-redis-in-php-using-predis/

Linux Admin*

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-setup-a-dedicated-web-server-for-free/

Development for Heroku, AWS, AppEngine or similar

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart

Exposure to Node.js

• http://howtonode.org/

Knowledge

Best Pratice PHP development*

• http://www.phptherightway.com

Secuity

• http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/

Testing* & Quality Assurance

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/test-driven-development-in-php-first-steps/
• http://phpqatools.org/
• http://www.browserstack.com/
• http://browsershots.org/
• https://saucelabs.com/

OOP*

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/real-world-oop-with-php-and-mysql/

Functional Programming

• http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
• http://jburrows.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/the-state-of-functional-programming-in-php-5-3-x/
• http://blog.lcf.name/2011/12/functional-programming-in-php.html

MVC*

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/create-your-first-tiny-mvc-boilerplate-with-php/

Javascript object-functional programming

• http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163419.aspx

CSS3, HTML5 development & Mobile

• http://mobile.tutsplus.com/

Performance and Scaling

• http://www.slideshare.net/duleepa/scaling-a-web-site-oscon-tutorial
• http://bitkickers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/nginx-ssl-reverse-proxy-tutorial.html
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2010/02/08/using-abusing-and-scaling-mysql-at-flickr/

Living with Legacy*

• http://www.slideshare.net/crnixon/dealing-with-legacy-php-applications
• http://www.slideshare.net/rowan_m/living-with-legacy-code

Licencing

• http://fosswire.com/post/2007/04/the-differences-between-the-gpl-lgpl-and-the-bsd/
• http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
• http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses

Development Software

Svn, Git*

• http://try.github.com/levels/1/challenges/1
• http://maverick.inria.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/svn/index.html

Ubuntu, ssh, rsync

• http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html

One of Netbeans, PHPStorm, Eclipse, nuSphere, Zend Studio, etc.

• http://netbeans.org/features/php/

One of TextMate, gEdit, Notepad++, etc.

• http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

One of vim, nano, emacs, etc.

• http://www.vim.org/download.php
• http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html

Phpmyadmin

• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

One of Capistrano, phing, composer, etc.

• http://nelm.io/blog/2011/12/composer-part-1-what-why/

Open Source Libraries

Zend Framework and one of Sympony, Cake, Kohana and one of Lithum, Fuel, Silex

• http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.intro.html/
• http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/index.html
• http://silex.sensiolabs.org/

jQuery and Backbone.js, Underscore.js

• http://andyet.net/blog/2010/oct/29/building-a-single-page-app-with-backbonejs-undersc/
• http://jquery.com/
• http://backbonejs.org/
• http://underscorejs.org/

One of Mustache, Twig, etc.

• http://mustache.github.com/

Phpdoc

• http://www.phpdoc.org/

PHPUnit

• https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/
• http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.7/en/index.html

Phar

• http://php.net/manual/en/book.phar.php

Projects (to write yourself!)

In PHP

Analytical (Pure PHP)

MVC Framework with Routing using PHP5.2

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/creating-a-php5-framework-part-1/

MVC Framework with new features of PHP5.3 OR ORM framework

• http://techportal.inviqa.com/2010/01/11/learning-php-5-3-by-writing-your-own-orm/

REST layer over RMDBS

• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/

API library for one of paypal, amazon, ebay, google, etc.

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/tutorials/os-php-webservice/

Mixed

• Basic CRUD Form/Survey/Guestbook website
• Blog using the above libraries
• Shopping Cart/Ecommerce project using these libraries
• Social Networking Site (either microblogger, group sharing, etc.)
• Chat (Rooms)
• File Manager
• Online Build/Deployment Manager (upload & deploy phars?)

In Javascritpt

Single page application using jQuery/Backbone

• http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/jquery-mobile-tutorial-creating-a-restaurant-picker-web-app.html

HTML5 Mobile Application using Twitter Bootstrap

• http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/complete-websites/twitter-bootstrap-101-introduction/

Node.js & NoSQL db app

• http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb

Meta

• Write documentation and tutorials on your own code
• Write coding standards
• Write designs for different applications you have seen online (how would you design facebook?)
• Outline the way you work, from how you start to deploy to support projects

**Research other solutions to the above problems and compare with your own. **