Today, i came across a posting on digg and now i will quote verbatim " A site like myspace.com can be put together in 3-4 hours too. Ditto for del.icio.us and a lot of the other high priced ones." Having done few web applications myself , I really know how much of an understatement that is. Why is that people learn some scripting and rudimentary SQL and think that putting together a decent web application is no big deal? Have they ever tried doing a web app end to end or are we talking super heroes here?? Let me whip put my requirements and some estimates and see how long it will take to do a simple page end to end.
