After much internal debate (in my mind) of whether or not to use a live server for development, or to merely develop locally, I have decided on local storage for the simple reason that I will be enduring quite a bit of airplane travel time in the days and weeks to come, and I’d rather have uninterrupted access to my development codebase.
As such, it was a bit of a toss-up as to whether this should be done in a VM (and if so, Windows or a Linux distribution), or keep it native on OS X, which just happens to be the flavour of the quarter for me. Ultimately, I had to decide between MAMP, LAMP, or XAMPP. The short answer: MAMP. To keep things simple through complexity, I decided to purchase both MAMP PRO 2, and Coda 2; I figure if I’m going to be looking at code non-stop for the next few months, it may as well look pretty.
Stay posted for the codebase deployment…