Thoughts & Random Things

Here are some opinions and ideas for starting to work online. We will focus here on graphics and programming because they are areas that I am familiar with. So taking those 2 main categories first decide... What is your talent?  You can find this out by taking some online courses and seeing which you enjoy and excel at. You should be able to figure this out fairly quickly - after 1 or 2 online courses in a programming language or graphics course. Personally I took courses in art and design for photoshop/illustrator for web design and loved it, but just did not have the natural talent to make good looking designs so I switched to programming. What do you want to build? Try to find what excites you, rather than first learning the technology and then thinking what can I build. Are you interested in making an iOS or Android app? Do you want to make a flashy website? Do you want help people manage E-commerce sites? Just as a carpenter would first think what they want to build (...

So anyone tried getting Magento 2 running on Bluehost? It has been a very painful experience. Magento 2 itself is painful so it is no surprise really, but having such a big webhost with an auto installer that installs version 1.9.1 released over a year ago really? I have spent hours with their tech support and trying to get it running faster than a snail, and just had constant issues. They don't even bother to have a page on their site how to install magento 2 with their servers, I guess they are ignoring the magento market? Here was a real chat with their tech support: K Tech Support: Website Issues what is the path to php for: http://(edited).com/_info.php I need to use in command line with composer T Thirumalesha joined T Hello Kevin, My name is Thirumalesha and I am happy to help you. How are you today? K good thx T I will help you Could I get the last 4 characters of the Main account password to verify ownership of the account? K (edited) T Thank yo...