What new Web Development Subject do you Suggest to learn in holidays ?

Question

So these days we're off.how are you going to spend your time? What new subject you wanted to learn but had not time before ? Is it a good idea to learn something new in holidays at all? [Upadte] please send some links to some tutorials about what you suggest and please be reasonable what is the benefits of subject you suggest .

Answer 1

Hai,

I would really love to work on

• GWT(Google Web Toolkit)....
• Go through users of StackOverflow,each of them will lead you to different concepts in different direction.. I had a nice experience once during my holidays spending time viewing their profiles very interesting... You get to know about some of the rarest concepts onboth web and windows developement.
• Have a look at some high voted questions of StackOverflow where you get to know about expert comments on web developement concepts...

• For Client Side WebDevelopment

  • Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
  • Javascript Libraries (Jquery,Yui,Dojo)
  • CSS
  • HTML

• For Server Side Developement

  • Any scripting languages of your choice (ASP,asp.net,Php....)
  • DataBase stuff would make your holidays worthy...

Answer 2

Enjoy your holiday and if you manage to get some time after all your priorities i would recommend

• ASP.NET MVC
• Javascript(not the typical, but learn about prototyping, anonymous functions, closures etc). Once you understand this most of the JS framework will make sense).
• jQuery (+ jquery UI)
• Flex
• Silverlight (in that order).

Answer 3

Ruby on Rails is booming, and there is a lot of work available around it. Check out http://www.workingwithrails.com/.

Anyways, to get started, I suggest watching the 15 minute RoR Blog video, just to get an idea of how rapidly you can develop with the language. http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails%5Fblog%5F2.mov

After you go through that (even if totally clueless, notice how "simple" the syntax seems compared to that of Java or C.

After you read through some stuff, I found this list to be pretty good in getting myself started: http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials

Don't forget though, 99% of the time, at least for me, an actual book seems to be the best learning tool. Lynda also has some great video tutorials, but at least the ones I have are out of date, they may have updates on their website. If I remember correctly they are quite expensive.