Before using a test server, my web programming experience was really slower. In fact, every time I had to modify something or try a piece of code, I had to upload it first to my remote server. If the Internet connection had a fluctuation, I could not continue working at all. This also meant I had to first set up a test website if I didn’t work on the live address. One day I had the curiosity of checking out one of these LAMP distributions (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), just with the Linux variable taken out. They call them a LAMP package for Windows. It contains a preconfigured Apache 2 server with PHP 4 and 5, a switcher between the two, MySQL 5 (you even got a phpMyAdmin script already set up) and a mail server called Mercury32 that enables you to send and receive mails from your own scripts, check out newsletters and so on.

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These are the Firefox extensions I found out to be the best so far:

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Last time we talked about Firebug, the Javascript Debugger. This time I’ll write about the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox, by Chris Pederick. This invaluable tool really changed the way I work, so I’m really excited to explain all the functions it has.

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