| Certainty | General Area of Possibility |
|---|---|
| 100% | Certain |
| 87%-99% | Almost certain |
| 63%-87% | Probable |
| 40%-60% | Chances about even |
| 40%-20% | Probably not |
| 2%-12% | Almost certainly not |
| 0% | Impossible |
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams
Ideas are fragile things, that need nurturing. When confronted with a new idea, stop and think about it for 5 minutes before making up your mind. Let the idea settle in, it might just be the next big thing.
I have a lot of competing goals and ideas that prevent me from focusing on any one. This constant thrashing is a waste of my time which has affected by chess improvement goals and derailed potential income generating ideas.
Below is a simple system that I plan to implement that will help me stay focused
I am breaking down the process into a planning and a doing phase. In the planning phase, I select the tasks to work on based on long-term goals. The doing phase is where I spend my time working on the tasks.
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I am on my first week of my Laravel journey, and so far so good. I setup my development environment using Bitnami, settled on Atom as my editor and began learning Laravel using Laracasts.
Laravel Environment Setup
You have three installation options:
- Install Laravel from Scratch on your system.
- Laravel Homestead
- Bitnami WAMP stack or Bitnami MAMP Stack
Laravel Homestead is an official, Vagrant virtual machine that comes pre-installed with all of the Laravel requirements. The benefit with Homestead is that you will not have to install anything on your machine.
I chose the Bitnami WAMP stack option, and so far it has worked for me. Download version 5.6, because the newer versions do not have Laravel installed.
As part of the setup you are going to need to settle on an IDE or editor. It seems the Laravel community prefers Sublime Text, but I settled on Atom, my favorite editor.
If you prefer a full blown PHP IDE, then PHPStorm might be an option.
Learning Resources
- Read the Laravel Quick Start Guide
- Watch Laravel from Scratch for free on Laracasts.
I am going to start working on a chess website project, and after brainstorming the idea I needed to decide which web technology to use for the site.
The three contenders are Ruby on Rails, Django or PHP using the Laravel Framework.
I have decided to go with Laravel after reading Craig Hewitt’s assessment and deciding that for me ease of learning and deployment to production are most important.