Category: PHP Projects

Revisiting development environment

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So running Aptana through a JRE via USB which also hosts the SVN and apache/mysql/ftp servers turned out not so great.

I’ve removed Aptana and the JRE from the flash drive.
Aptana now needs to be installed and configured (just once) on whichever machine I’m using to develop on (usually my desktop and laptop).

It will now only host the XAMPP setup and Aptana workspace files.

XAMPP’s servers aren’t really affected by the “slow” USB flash drive, and once Aptana loads its workspace files they stay in RAM from what I can tell.

I think I finally got it!

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Thanks to the power of Google (and a very patient wife!) I’ve managed to set up a portable development and learning environment on a flash drive.

It contains:

  • XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, FileZilla)
  • SVN via Apache
  • Eclipse (Aptana Studio)
  • Java runtime for Ecplise

So far I’ve only tested on 2 systems but it appears to work just fine!
Should make this a lot easier than relying on 1 PC to host everything, so long as I sync the drive for backup.