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this is a string

December 12, 2018December 7, 2018 by kristina

You can’t cut these apron strings. A string is simply text. That’s it. I don’t know why programmers don’t just say text, but they don’t. They call it strings.

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this is a path

December 7, 2018 by kristina

A path in programming is not a treelined trail through a park. A path is the “address” to a file on your computer. The address is made of folder names until the very last one which may be a file name. It doesn’t have to be a file name. It could also be the name … Read morethis is a path

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This is a pipe.

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by kristina

This is not an l , or an i, or a 1, or a capital I. It’s called a pipe. It’s a character on a keyboard that is simply a vertical bar. You find it on the backslash key on a QWERTY  keyboard. What does it do? OR If you put two of them together, … Read moreThis is a pipe.

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Aha! PHP File Structure

January 16, 2022October 30, 2018 by kristina

My struggle with php is with understanding the overall structure of how everything works together. Googling for troubleshooting help is only really useful once you’re in the detailed mechanics of a php error. It doesn’t really help when the problem (like mine). I’ve spent way too many hours trying to figure these things out, and I … Read moreAha! PHP File Structure

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PDO Statements Explained

November 15, 2018October 18, 2018 by kristina

PDO Statements in PHP follow a pattern. This pattern is rarely described. Instead, people who understand the pattern, just show you examples of code and explain nitty gritty details, not realizing that the big picture is missing. At least for me. Apparently everyone else gets it and I am in the minority. Or maybe not, … Read morePDO Statements Explained

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Quotes from Growing a Business by Paul Hawken:

If you have a business idea, "try it out on friends. If they say you have a wonderful idea, you may be in trouble: an idea everyone recognizes as great has probably arrived on the scene too late. But if your friends look confused and shrug their shoulders, things are looking up."

" A ready supply of too much money in start-ups tends to replace creativity…Companies without money dream and imagine."

"...these companies survived the upheavals of the marketplace... because they had 'being' goals instead of 'doing' goals. Their business was centered on a way of interacting with the world, not on providing one specific product or service."

"Small businesses, at least entrepreneurial ones, are formed in order to address problems that money alone cannot solve."

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