"I've used MAMP as a quick way to set up a stack. You don't need MAMP pro or anything like that. You can set up as many vhosts, etc. as you like by just editing the config...."

"yeah, at least in the bay area any dev mobile or not should run up to 6 figures ... and in this case, they should run up to 6 figures close to the first digit being a 2 ... whether built natively (objective c or java, the latter being an especially n..."

"APC is great. Benchmarked against eAccelerator it's slightly slower but w/ ZF 1.9.2 or so eAcc just ididn't work. Will report more once we try others. BTW (used beta of APC on development and stable version on prod of course). Cheers, Luci"

"Two interpreted languages (PHP vs. Ruby -- Rails is just another MVC framework) to create applications ... whether web or not. I think it's a moot point. You can write a post with all possible combinations of languages used to do the same thing...."