WAMP and web development
Do you do any PHP development? If so, you’ll be aware of the LAMP acronym. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP: all open source development tools available under the GNU license. The Open Source community has fully embraced the LAMP set of technologies and this combination is rather robust and has also been used to implement commercial-grade web solutions.
I’ve wanted to implement one of the client-server applications at my workplace into a web application but since we run Windows Server 2003 on our servers, I couldn’t quite use LAMP. But guess what I just found: WAMP Server .This is Apache,MySQL,PHP on Windows platform. One of the first hurdles to cross with these tools is installing each one. It can easily take a working day to install and configure MySQL to work with PHP and Apache. Especially if you haven’t done it before.
With WAMP, you download one exe installation file, run it and you have all the tools installed and all the services running in 3 minutes flat! Morever, you get a little icon in your task bar that allows you to stop start the services. Here’s a screen shot:
[Courtesy of WAMP]
OnLAMP is an excellent resource for LAMP developers.
