Did you know that if you run Skype and try to install XAMPP, the server won’t start? That’s because Skype is using port 80 for its connection, and you have to manually go in and disable this for XAMPP to work, It separates out programs and settings from your local desktop that can interfere with the operations of a server.There are many reasons to do your development work on a virtual machine over your daily desktop: This has got to stop, especially amongst PHP developers where we have tools like XAMPP that require nothing more than a simple zip extract to get up and running with your own “server”. Most that said anything about operating systems or platforms made it clear they were developing on their local machine, with no separation between their everyday driver and their development environment. Out of 144 responses, I noticed that very few mentioned virtual machines. The usual answers came tumbling out – mostly about IDEs and methods for uploading their code (side note: FTP is a horrible way to do this!). Recently on r/php there was a thread asking users about their development environments.

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