XAMPP for Windows - Developer environment...
 

Playing with XAMPP for Windows and I have no idea how I ended up on this road... Was it an ad on a page of something else? no fucking idea...

Anyway... Sets up apache/mysql/php/perl environment and it is currently the best and the easiest one I have used to date.

Going to go and have some fun... I am sure Fris had something to do with how I got here... I can't remember how... but amazing!

I started using it 2 - 3 years ago, never replaced it with something else, although there is an alternative called wamp...

ya its nice for local dev ;)

for those who dont have it here is a link to get you started

http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/we...e-development/

Found it...got it from the free jquery book you found

easyphp is also good one..

mamp also for mac people

<3 xamp. Great for making changes locally before setting them live. Currently developing a site now locally. Design + populating locally so I can just launch it all at once.

I like the actual setup structure of Wamp, but much prefer the mysql environment of xampp... because i sped more time testing against mysql, xampp ftw.

Now we just need to walk you past notepad.

You can laugh at my notepad skills... but then I actually understand how and why things works... Which is why I don't need a program to drag and drop, wysiwyg stuff into my web sites and programs...

I can't stand WYSIWYG... you know better...

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide

http://www.eclipse.org/

Or if you absolutely must feel old skool... but get some tools packaged in...

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

:thumbsup:thumbsup

I shall have to watch some tutorial videos and see why using them is better than just using Dreamweaver...

Eclipse is kick ass that's what I use if I have to conjure up something code wise.

been using it for years - very handy. can even move it around to different pcs easily enough. and there is an os x version.

also a good idea, if you want to develop locally and eventually move it to a domain, just edit your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file

say the domain you plan on using is sexybabes.com

add

then when moving it will be painless and you wont have to do all the extra shit when fixing urls, etc. just an export and import.