https://til.andrew-quinn.me/tags/slowstart/ Recent content in Slowstart on Andrew Quinn's TILs https://til.andrew-quinn.me/papermod-cover.png https://til.andrew-quinn.me/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/php-and-web-dev-phobia/ Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/php-and-web-dev-phobia/ <p>PHP is, for better and for worse, the Python of web dev in my eyes. It is exceptionally easy to get started, in a way which I think younger developers may not be fully aware of.</p> <p>So here I&rsquo;d like to make them aware of it! That&rsquo;s right, this is a <a href="https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/quickstarts-and-slowstarts/">Slowstart</a> for people who have never touched PHP or web dev before.</p> <p>Start <a href="../the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-vms-in-hacker-pedagogy/">the way we usually do</a> on this blog, with the &ldquo;tutorial-in-a-box&rdquo; by installing <a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/">Vagrant</a> and <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/">Virtualbox</a> so you can create a disposable virtual machine with just a few commands.</p>