This article explains how to setup a Microsoft Windows machine to develop a website. This is for the times you don't have access to a Mac or Linux machine. This strategy will use what I call a WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) server to install a open source PHP CMS.
I don't often install Ubuntu server on a Virtual Machine (VM) so I've documented the process here. Usually you can just click "install VMWare tools" and VMWare will complete the process automatically.
I've been using Ubuntu for about three years now and I've never taken the time to learn the keyboard shortcuts. I've wasted so much time taking the extra second to move my hand over to the mouse. The purpose of this article is to quickly teach you useful time-saving keyboard shortcuts available in Ubuntu.
grep is a great tool for web development. I've included a script to make things a little bit easier for searching your files for code.
I just read this great article about Command Aliases in Unix shells. I felt so inspired by this post, I'm writing about how you can use aliases to speed up web development.
This article has nothing to do with web development. It is more for my reference, but if your interested feel free to read.
I don't work in Windows or Mac often so I always forget where the hosts file is located. The windows etc hosts file and unix etc host file both work the same, so usage is easy.