Chapter 4.1. Building a Simple Bookmark Collection Site

We’ll build a small program to save and categorize links. If you want to imagine a user for this, you can think of the tourist association of a small town such as Mars, Pennsylvania, which needs a central place to aggregate links for restaurants, bed-and-breakfasts, and tourist attractions.

Before we get started on any project, no matter how small, there are a couple of things we always do. First we set up a version control repository. All the code for this book lives in a Subversion repository. In that repository we already have a sample code folder for each chapter, so all we have to do is check out that folder, cd into it, and add our new project like this:

cd code/4/ tg-admin quickstart ...

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