Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Week 4 - Server side technologies

This week, we had our brief introduction to the server side technologies. We learnt more about type of web servers, PHP and databases. From my understanding PHP is like in interpreter for programming language which allows you to talk to databases. PHP will be able to output dynamic HTML pages from databases. Databases are managed by Databases Management Systems such as MySQL. Tonight's lecture was very brief and I think I need to watch the video again and read more about PHP and MySQL. I don't think I can fully understand it just yet. It is still an unknown territory to me. I hope I can understand them more once I dive into it.

Tonight, we also received the feedback about our learning plan. There are a lot of things I need to think about for my project. It would be an interesting project, however it might be too ambitious for the time frame I have in this subject. I need to prioritise a few things and refine the plan a little bit more. I might have to break it into phases and work my way through each phases. I also need to do more research on the which available opensource CMS technologies I can use for this project. This week, my task would be to finalise the learning plan and do more research on the strategies and resources to do the project.

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