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[Kristina Anderson]

Actually people would probably say that I'm both left & right brained in 
some ways...although for sure I'm no DaVinci, LOL.
And, I think the guys were joking around a bit with their suggestions.  
It's certainly not a trivial thing for any non-engineer to set up a web 
server!

Speaking as someone who, with a B.A. degree in English and basically NO 
knowledge of computers, somehow taught  myself to be a pretty darn good 
server-side programmer in my 30s (this was back around 1996/1997 that I 
started), I can attest that it IS possible but only if you have both a 
LOT of time & patience, AND a tolerance for huge amounts of mental 
agony....and plan on not having much of a social life for a decade or 
two.  I certainly do not want to dissuade anyone from trying.

Kristina

On 11/30/2011 8:19 AM, Rukbat wrote:

On 11/30/2011 8:19 AM, Rukbat wrote:
> Telling her that it's as simple as setting up a WAMP stack is like 
> telling a good programmer that design is as simple as downloading 
> Paint.net.  A really good designer is right-brained.  A really good 
> developer is left-brained.  The last person of whom I'm aware who was 
> both left- and right-brained was Leonardo da Vinci - it's that rare.  
> People should stick to what they're good at, and get others to do what 
> they really aren't physically equipped to do.   It's no shame if an 
> artist can't figure out how to write code, or if a short person can't 
> play pro basketball.
>
> (BTW, some people who have CS degrees would have been better off going 
> for a BFA.)
>> I've seen guys with Computer Science degrees, btw, have problems 
>> setting up WAMP. :)
>>
>> On 11/30/2011 12:08 AM, bruce amick wrote:
>>> And after you download and install Mamp/Wamp/or Xampp you can go to 
>>> w3schools for some pretty easy to follow tutorials and examples: 
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Federico Ulfo 
>>> <rainelemental at gmail.com <mailto:rainelemental at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     It's easy, download MAMP
>>>     <http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html> for Macintosh or WAMP
>>>     <http://www.wampserver.com/en/> for Windows, they will install
>>>     all you need, Apache, MySql, PHP. After that you can start
>>>     create an index.php file in your web folder and test it on your
>>>     http://localhost/ with your browser.
>>>
>>>     Enjoy
>>>
>>
>>
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Kristina Anderson
PHP/MySQL/LAMP/AJAX Systems Analyst / Programmer / Consultant
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> Telling her that it's as simple as setting up a WAMP stack is like 
> telling a good programmer that design is as simple as downloading 
> Paint.net.  A really good designer is right-brained.  A really good 
> developer is left-brained.  The last person of whom I'm aware who was 
> both left- and right-brained was Leonardo da Vinci - it's that rare.  
> People should stick to what they're good at, and get others to do what 
> they really aren't physically equipped to do.   It's no shame if an 
> artist can't figure out how to write code, or if a short person can't 
> play pro basketball. (BTW, some people who have CS degrees would have 
> been better off going for a BFA.)
>> I've seen guys with Computer Science degrees, btw, have problems 
>> setting up WAMP. :) On 11/30/2011 12:08 AM, bruce amick wrote:
>>> And after you download and install Mamp/Wamp/or Xampp you can go to 
>>> w3schools for some pretty easy to follow tutorials and examples: 
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Federico Ulfo 
>>> <rainelemental at gmail.com <mailto:rainelemental at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     It's easy, download MAMP
>>>     <http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html> for Macintosh or WAMP
>>>     <http://www.wampserver.com/en/> for Windows, they will install
>>>     all you need, Apache, MySql, PHP. After that you can start
>>>     create an index.php file in your web folder and test it on your
>>>     http://localhost/ with your browser. Enjoy
>>>
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