I’d like to do something useful. No kidding. Something I or someone else could use. When I come up with some idea I start to think about details and about what technologies I should use for its implementation. Speaking about technology I want to say that I prefer using something I’ve never used before. And here lies the rub. When I start to learn something I start with the idea of getting some satisfactory level of deep knowledge of the subject, not only some basic understanding enough only for “hello world”.

For example, I wanted to create a small web app which will help me to send POST request (need for my current job project). I’ve chosen Python and Flask as technologies, mostly because I’m learning Python now. Ok, let’s read what Flask is. Hm, it’s based on Werkzeug and Jinja2. Well, let us a look at them. WSGI? What’s that?

Have you ever thought why there are so many apocalyptic dates but we are still alive? Because no one had ever tested these dates! Maybe some centuries ago people didn’t have any appropriate instrument for testing, but we have. Yep, it’s unit testing. Today we’re going to create a Zend Framework application which will list some apocalyptic dates and write some code to test its functionality.