Rogue Idea

So the other day I’m sitting online (of course) and I start thinking about where I should put my website that I’m working on. Obviously having it on the web makes it susceptible to ‘dangers’ online like people stealing my ideas (okay I admit its not that great of an idea, but still). Then I’m thinking that I could put it on the domain that it’ll end up being on so then it’ll be less hassle getting it all over there later. Well after talking to John and realizing that most people don’t do this then I go check out this XAMPP thing that I saw being mentioned online before. And finally it all clicks together!! All the sudden I realize how those people putting their errors and examples up always have their stuff at “http://localhost/…” and it makes complete sense cause then all your code and files are offline and you don’t put it out into the internet until its all done!

So then I try to download it and I’m thinking 32 Mb for an installer I guess I can wait. Then it kept getting stuck and I couldn’t make it start off where it cut me offline. After one zillion million hours of trying to download this damned thing I finally have all 32 Mb of it and install it. Of course after installing it I realize I have NO idea how to use it. And apparently there are no tutorials or help things on their site, just lots of documentation about what they put it in it; basically stuff that I don’t really care about right now. It took me a few hours to figure out how to put in my backup of my mysql database into the thing and by the time I found out, I already redid the entire thing manually. Then it took me another few hours to find out where to put the files that I wanted to show up on my new little server that I downloaded.

I felt like I was trying to learn fireworks again - I search and search and search online but theres no help anywhere!

Well I finally got it all completely set up yesterday and also organized all my files again since I had to move all my things around a little bit. And now, I will go eat ice cream.