Well after nearly 10 months, I finally have a company provided computer system!

I’ve spent the Tuesday nad part of Wednesday setting it all up and transferring the necessary data off my laptop. The system is running a development environment of Apache 2.2.4 (web server), PHP 5.2.1 (server side scripting language) and MySQL 5.0.37 (database engine). Other development tools I use are jEdit (cross platform programmer’s text editor), TortoiseSVN (a Subversion client for Windows), MySQL tools package (general database adminstration and querying duties), pgAdmin III (PostgreSQL administration), Putty (SSH client), WinSCP (for secure file transfers over SSH), ArgoUML (UML diagramming tool) along with the essential PHP and MySQL manuals for quick reference. I’m sure that there are a few others also which I can’t think of at the moment.

So I’m quite pleased with that, it’s all up and running and is highly responsive compared to my laptop. I will now have the freedom to format and rebuild my laptop which should help speed things up a little! I also have my eye on purchasing a copy of the new Command & Conquer game which would run nicely on my laptop :)