I remember first starting with ISBoxer and setting it up for RIFT. It was quite a hard program to get your head around and I ended up drawing out a lot of diagrams of what would happen when a button was pushed through to the end result in game.

It took a lot of reading to get comfortable, mostly of the forums and guides The new videos by LAX are awesome as well. I would say a week until I built my own set up for RIFT. 2 weeks to have something usable and the config was rebuilt a few times of the next couple of months. I do work full time though and have young kids.

There is always something that could be better though and needs to be changed in your config