Everybody working in web development knows about this, right?
I realized recently that it was far from being true. While frameworks and ORMs make web developers' job easier and easier, more and more people comes to develop websites without knowing about the real basics. They use relational databases without knowing anything about SQL, and they develop websites without understanding how the client will talk with their website.
I don't pretend to make a revolution there, but if I bring my car to the car mechanic, I hope he will know a bit more about it than "engine makes power, and so the car is working". So are my exigences when I ask a specialist to work on a website.
To give a parallel with playing music, you can learn to play some songs without knowing anything about harmony and rhythm, but is you want to get serious about what you play, it will become an absolute requirement.
I so decided to make some short articles explaining in simple terms what those basis are, to my humble opinion. First one is about HTTP.
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