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Local vs XAMPP: Which Should You Use for Local Development?

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September 22, 2024

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When it comes to choosing a local development environment, an abundance of choices can be both a blessing and a curse. There are many options to consider and in this post we are pitting two popular ones against each other. Welcome to Local vs XAMPP. If you are considering using either of these free solutions for building websites locally, this guide will tell you everything you need know before making a decision. We’ll talk about what Local and XAMPP offer, laying out their features, advantages, and differences. Get ready for a detailed rundown. Local vs XAMPP: Setup Local and XAMPP […]

Truly useful WordPress development tools: Sass, local development, and Git

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February 25, 2015

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As web developers go, I’m a pragmatist. I have a core set of development practices that work well for me, and I’m not constantly bounding forward to the bleeding edge of dev technology. If you’re like me, you may feel intimidated by what I’ll refer to as “die-hard” developers—devs who are innately fascinated by development languages, patterns, and tools, particularly new ones. Watching the endless flood of new tools year after year (Grunt? Node.js?) can feel like falling further and further behind the “real” programmers. The test of a new tool. . . My advice for this situation is not to […]

Getting Started with Vagrant for Local Development

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August 13, 2014

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Vagrant is a system for creating local web servers in portable, highly-configurable virtual machines on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Though there are lots of ways to create a local testing environment for WordPress development, Vagrant is one of the most powerful and configurable options. In this article, I’ll introduce Vagrant, and I will walk you through setting up VVV, a popular WordPress vagrant setup. The real advantage of Vagrant is that it’s totally customizable. This means you can emulate your production environment in your local development environment. When done right, this means no surprises when you go live. Developing with the […]

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