This is an ongoing attempt to blog my developing of an bookkeeping webapplication. It is a learning excercise, both on the technical and project front.

A short overview: I want to refresh muy knowledge on several techologies I know, and learn some new ones. In no particular order:

• XHTML: I want to use strict XHTML webpages, and refresh my knowledge of all the tags


• CSS: I want to thorougjly learn CSS to style my pages. I know the fundamentals, but not in-depth


• AJAX: building interactive web-sites without having to clicl the Submit button all the time:
  
  
  
  • Javascript: necessary for modifying the web-page. The interaction between JS and CSS is particularly interesting
  
  
  • DOM: traversing and manipulating the Document Object Model.
  
  
  • XMLHttpRequest: Sending requests witthout disturbing the user's workflow
  
  
  
  


• Struts: environment for building webapps. I was really hesitating to go for Java Faces, but Struts is more mature, and we use it at work so this is more relevant


• Hibernate: excellent way of building and OO layer on top of the persistence layer (i.e. the database)


• MySQL and SQL: refreshing my knowledge of SQL is not a bad thing.
  
• Eclipse and MyEclipse: MyEclipse is the only bit of non-open source I am using, but again, we use it at work, and the tools seem excellent