1. Web & Application Development

2. Microsoft or Open Source  Business needs/requirements VS  Developers Preferences

3. Things to think about  What does my website do?  What data does my website need to store?  How do I want it to look like?  How do I want to interact with it?  What reporting will I need?

4. Useful Websites (tutorials)  W3schools  http://www.w3schools.com http://www.w3schools.com  CSSZenGarden  http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/  Tizag  http://www.tizag.com http://www.tizag.com  DynamicDrive  http://www.DynamicDrive.com http://www.DynamicDrive.com  GOOGLE

5. Useful Software For Web Development  Xampp (Apache2, MySQL, PHP) (LAMP,MAMP,WAMP)  CMS (Typo3, Wordpress)  DreamWeaver, Zend Studio, PHP Dev Studio, JCreator, Eclipse, NetBeans and others  Valuable Languages PHP, Java, C#, VB.net, SQL, CSS, JavaScript

6. Useful Software For Application Development  NUnit  SVN, GIT, Team Viewer (Version Control)  Notepad++  Visual Studio (Free Ed) (C#, C++,C, VB.NET)  Valuable Languages Java, C#, VB.net, SQL  MySQL or MSSQL

7. Things to think about  What does my application do?  What data does my application need to store?  How do I want the application to look like?  How do I want to interact with it?  What reporting will I need?

8. Useful Software For Mobile App Development  Objective-C, (Apple iDevices) iPhone SDK  http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios /index.action  Java, C++,C (Android) Android SDK  http://developer.android.com/index.html  Custom Tools  Thing to research: Do you want your app to be on one market or both?

9. Design Visualisation  MS Visio  MSSQL/MySQL (Table Views)  UML (Unified Modeling Language)  http://apps.open-libraries.com/best-open-source-uml-tools/ http://apps.open-libraries.com/best-open-source-uml-tools/

10. Acronyms  CSS –Cascading Style Sheets  UML – Unified Modeling Language  PHP – PHP Hypertext Preprocessor  CMS – Content Management System  SQL – Structured Query Language  SDK – Software Development Kit  SVN - Subversion