Post your battlestations!
 

Post the pics of your Battlestations here, lets see what you have.

http://imgur.com/cNqMF.jpg

This is not mine, just an example. I will post mine once I clean my desk :P

this kinda reminds me of Xcoder's desk :p

Last summer:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._4456412_n.jpg

Modified to:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2a38e4bfd4.jpg

My battle station is portable:P

Usage:
Business Use: 75%
Music Use: 20%
Fun Use: 5%

It's a regular 24" wide screen flipped vertically for coding purposes mainly.
The real charm about my setup is how two operating systems (Windows 7 & Linux Ubuntu) work smoothly together such as:

Using the same Keyboard & Mouse on both systems, i just move the mouse up to go Linux and back down to go back Windows as if they were the same system using Synergy LAN based KVM system.

This made me use the best of both, if i needed to use notepad++ or Adobe Photoshop... i use windows.
If i wanna manage online servers, test my scripts... i use Linux.
I just hate emulators, they make things slow and limited like Wine on Linux or XAMPP on Windows.

Linux drives are accessible from windows through SFTP based virtual drive for easy editing for my scripts since i use windows and my laptop(Ubuntu) for coding live on the server.

I had a big sound system for it, but i had to replace it with headphones due to lack of space.

My workstation is always on, it has 3 UPS to keep everything 100% functional when electricity cuts off.

XAMPP, EasyPHP... are an easy to go for newbies.

You have to wait XAMPP to release the next version to update your PHP version...

Try to run infinite loop or run a heavy process, XAMPP will completely freeze and even your whole operating system.

XAMPP is limited comparing to Apache, try to change prefork to worker... their website name explains anyway >> www.apachefriends.org

Limited online support comparing to Apache.

And finally from my personal experience, after using it for more than two years as well as easyphp, they completely suck =)

dw man u have the most important thing on ur desk.......the PS3 Controller :huh:

Ok, but that's not a general rule.

Not really. You can update the PHP core files by replacing them :)

It is not XAMPP that freezes, it is apache service program.

It depends on what you want to do.
Also, for production phase, I'll sure get apache installed and maybe even recompile it from scratch for proper customization. But the pre-configured apache in XAMPP suffices most of the times during development.

I don't know. But it doesn't need much support since it is a wrap-up of softwares that already have support. You are talking like XAMPP is running an HTTP server other than apache.

What are those code snippets in el-nashra or almazad that cause troubles on XAMPP.

Btw, I use apache on Fedora :p

My machine! <3

If it's for newbies, it's limited, it's more like a sandbox.

Give it a shot and tell me if it works

Apache on Linux doesn't, it either run out of memory or timeout the process after X time. Either way it doesn't freeze the whole thing.

= limited

That's the emulation part.

I started developing Elnashra 4 years ago on XAMPP but had to move to Apache on Linux environment for obvious limitations such as using shell_exec and exec to use third party apps or execute Linux commands which was impossible to do on Windows.

We're about to finish an HMVC Framework based on PHP 5.3 and we need accurate benchmarks and the ideal and identical environment to our production servers with plenty of customizations and tweaks.

And this is where it's suppose to be =)