2020 In Review

Even at the cost of annoying folks around me, I’d dare say that 2020 has actually been a fabulous year for me, personally. I learnt quite a bit about myself, learnt a couple of new skills, learnt what I don’t like, what I don’t want to do, fixed a couple of things about my health and more. I’ll try to chronicle these for the rest of the post. I typically consider my date of birth as the beginning of another year....

<span title='2020-12-25 12:54:10 +0000 UTC'>December 25, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;10 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Developing for the web

I have been writing web applications for quite a while now. For a more significant part of this experience, I had been developing on top of an existing CMS type environment; moodle, drupal, WordPress, or the like. Very few of these are web applications written from scratch. I typically used PHP when I write for the web because it has the lowest barrier of entry. You can write HTML and then insert your PHP wherever you need dynamic content....

<span title='2020-01-05 03:43:39 +0000 UTC'>January 5, 2020</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek