Question thread #3

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer.

Comments

[farasha]

Hi!

If one were interested in getting involved in bugfixes and development, but one's only code experience is outdated (HTML 3.0 and Java a few versions ago), which languages would you lovely people suggest one brushes up on?

[pauamma]

For front-end development:
- HTML4, CSS3, and the Template Toolkit templating language
- Javascript, the jQuery library, and the jQueryUI library

For backend development:
- SQL

For both:
- Perl

Also, feel free to pop up in #dreamwidth-dev if you need to discuss specifics, depending on which bug(s) you're looking at.

[denise]

HELLO AND WELCOME, we are kind of ridiculously full of the welcome wagon

In case you have not had ALL the links thrown at you yet:

* Dreamhacks, our hosted developer environments, because you don't want to try to install the code yourself
* The Wiki, especially Development and Getting Started
* The #dreamwidth and #dreamwidth-dev irc channels, on irc.freenode.net
* The Mercurial web frontend if you want to just read through the code instead of checking it out
* BUGZILLAAAAAAA, especially the unassigned effort-minor bugs

[farasha]

Sweet. Thanks for the links! This community is awesome :)