Here are a few Apache & PHP installation bundles I found for Windows that can save a lot of time getting things up and running.

• EasyPHP
• Bitnami WAMP/WAPP Stack
• WAMP Server

Here’s a nice, easy-to-use, web-based Javascript tester I came across the other day. It’s called JSFiddle.

I recently needed to share some code with a colleague while making it easy for him to read it all color-coded and properly indented. I tried out Pastebin and that seemed to be really easy and worked very well. Other options would include creating a diff file and sending that to other people who can then view the changes using a diff viewer. Or, committing changes to a versioning system (SVN/GIT)  and letting others do an update to merge any changes.

If you’re tired of searching through lines and lines of boring, unformatted text to edit you PHP.INI file  and wish there were a more user-friendly interface, you’re in luck. Check this out …

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Server-Tools/PHPConfig.shtml

If you’re tired of searching through lines and lines of boring, unformatted text to edit you Apache httpd.conf file  and wish there were a more user-friendly interface, you’re in luck. Check this out …

http://www.apache-gui.com/apacheconf/index.html