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iTWire: Even the most Microsoft-ardent developer will know web hosts favour Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP over Windows, IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Thanks to virtualisation the days of dual booting are over. Here is how to set up a streamlined LAMP development environment on any Windows PC.

Well, if this works then the WordPress app for the iPhone works! I notice that iTunes marks it as being an iPad app too, presumably offering enhanced functionality on the bigger screen.

iTWire: Anti-Linux evangelists try to level many claims against the free open source operating system Linux. Arguments against the base cost (nothing!) or about the turnaround time to repair security exploits don’t work. But there is one item in the anti-Linux arsenal which often hits hard: lack of support. Here’s why it makes good Linux techies groan when they see it.

iTWire: The new, record breaking, Firefox 3 web browser is the fastest version of Firefox yet. But are you really getting the biggest bang for your buck (metaphorically speaking, because, of course, Firefox is free?) You can eke out a better disk and memory footprint and higher speeds by building it yourself from the original source code.

Here I walk through just what actually happens when you run Firefox on your computer, how to download and compile the source on your own computer, and some measurements to gauge the memory usage of the official packaged release and the newly compiled version to prove to yourself the effort pays off.