Originally Posted by
meiji
I generally install all the things I need on my laptop. Currently the setup is:
Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Topstyle (for CSS), Zend IDE (for PHP and HTML). I also typically throw manuals for all of them onto the HD as well as a few references I use regularly.
Ditto what meiji said. In the past, when doing ASP on the MS platform I had IIS and SQL on the laptop as my own traveling development sandbox. Now, I have the same laptop running Fedora, and some dev packages. In the future (probably after Leopard hits), I'll get a MBP and trick it out.
I just got a Mac Mini (to get a taste of OSX) and I love it. I'm just playing with the dev stuff on it to see if it's feasible, but PHP and MySQL were a breeze.