Rails Girls Frankfurt, March 2013 Taking the First Step By Benjamin Eberlei 

No need to be overwhelmed Like learning a craft, programming is about taking one step at a time http://www.flickr.com/photos/subtle_3106/440760824/ 

Some steps to climb PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Perl, Apache, Cgi, Server-Side-Includes, Ruby, C#, Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, Symfony, Doctrine, Solr, CouchDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash, Vim, Eclipse, Netbeans, Weaverslave, Notepad++, SVN, Git, jQuery, Backbone.js, Nginx, Test-Driven-Development, SOLID, OOP, Design Patterns, SOAP, REST, WSDL, Java, Clojure, Python, Puppet, Vagrant, Gherkin, Cucumber, Behat, Pair Programming, Pascal, Windows Azure, Amazon Webservices, …. 

Steps today PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Perl, Apache, Cgi, Server-Side-Includes, Ruby, C#, Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, Symfony, Doctrine, Solr, CouchDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash, Vim, Eclipse, Netbeans, Weaverslave, Notepad++, SVN, Git, jQuery, Backbone.js, Nginx, Test-Driven-Development, SOLID, OOP, Design Patterns, SOAP, REST, WSDL, Java, Clojure, Python, Puppet, Vagrant, Gherkin, Cucumber, Behat, Pair Programming, Pascal, Windows Azure, Amazon Webservices, …. 

My first site 

My second site 

The first Facebook Mark Zuckerberg built the first Facebook in a single month, January 2004 

The first Twitter Initial development in March 2006: A few days 

The first Wikipedia Started with a third party software in 2002, before shipping their own (MediaWiki) in 2003 

Take Baby Steps Let's take a first step: Learning about Ruby on Rails http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/959010447/ 

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