Trigger Happy
Moderator
Hi Guys,
So I'm not too shabby at general development stuff, however when it comes to web development I am pretty nooby. What I want to do, is make a small app for my phone to keep on top of notifications coming from this fine clan site of ours and to do so I will need to figure out all this web jazz.
I'll be doing this in C# to make a Live Tile for Windows Phone to just show an appropriate number indicating the notifications received here. I'm not too sure how complex this needs to become (aka storing cookies) as I believe all I would need to do is some sort of Auth with the site using POST (or REST? I dunno) and then from there get the part of the site that I need and do a bit of parsing on the html served back. So I guess my first question is, what should I be looking at? REST, POST, Cookies? I can look into tutorials once I know the basic idea of how to go about this, but at the end of the day it will be a good learning experience and the result will be something I want to use so any input from seasoned devs or other inquisitive minds is welcome.
Thanks,
Trigger
So I'm not too shabby at general development stuff, however when it comes to web development I am pretty nooby. What I want to do, is make a small app for my phone to keep on top of notifications coming from this fine clan site of ours and to do so I will need to figure out all this web jazz.
I'll be doing this in C# to make a Live Tile for Windows Phone to just show an appropriate number indicating the notifications received here. I'm not too sure how complex this needs to become (aka storing cookies) as I believe all I would need to do is some sort of Auth with the site using POST (or REST? I dunno) and then from there get the part of the site that I need and do a bit of parsing on the html served back. So I guess my first question is, what should I be looking at? REST, POST, Cookies? I can look into tutorials once I know the basic idea of how to go about this, but at the end of the day it will be a good learning experience and the result will be something I want to use so any input from seasoned devs or other inquisitive minds is welcome.
Thanks,
Trigger