Development Plans

I have lost quite a bit of touch with programming and scripting languages over the past couple of years. Since I do all my coding in ABAP, I have not touched languages like java and C except for some rare situations where I was maybe experimenting with some features either for me or for a friend. So I decided to get back to programming and learning languages and technologies.

Since the past few months my main target was to learn AJAX and create some pages/projects based on it. Also, I have been reading a lot about Ruby on Rails and I am keen on learning and using RoR too. I also want to host my own blog site and photo album site and I decided to learn PHP in detail and do a lot of scripting on PHP to become proficient in it. Lots of dreams you might say, but those are my dreams and I have to accomplish them soon.

My first step in learning these was to have my own webserver (either locally or hosted or both). I also wanted to do all my coding on Linux and hence that was my next task. So how did that fare?