Coding with Jesse

XAMPP

April 20th, 2005

Though it came out a few years ago, I just heard about XAMPP, a free package combining PHP, Perl, MySQL and Apache. It comes with PHPMyAdmin, FileZilla FTP Server, Webalizer and lots more.

The best part is, it's designed to be run on development computers. It installs into a single directory, and makes no changes to the registry or anything. It's perfect. I'm really impressed that this exists. I've always avoided working locally on my desktop, but now I'm going to give it a try.

About the author

Jesse Skinner Hi, I'm Jesse Skinner. I work with development teams to speed up and stabilize web applications, reduce server costs, fix difficult bugs, modernize legacy applications, and improve developer productivity. I'd love to hear from you and see how I can make your life easier.