LAMP Development on Windows
LAMP is an open source web development platform, a software stack, used together to run dynamic websites. The acronym LAMP stands for: Linux (L), Apache HTTP Server (A), MySQL (M), PHP or Perl or Python (P). The acronym was coined by Michael Kunze coined in an article for the German computing magazine.
I admit that the title kind of confusing and most people would say that running LAMP on Windows is impractical since there are packages that are specifically designed to run on Windows platform like XAMPP. However, I just feel that running XAMP puts a heavy load on work station. I tried it, for me it runs slow. Though it works, I still enjoy working on Linux commandline as most geeks are. I’m a LAMP specifically Linux fan (dual boot - Windows and Ubuntu ) but my work requires me to use Windows.