Speaking about the perfect Web stack.
After watching Tyler give his This is Not a Graphic Design presentation (which I wrote about), I got to thinking about the horror that is presenting. I worry a fair amount. I can totally believe that Laurence Olivier would throw up before each performance. However, I really do love presenting. I suppose I am teaching a class at the Art Institute and I have and do present and show-off my portfolio to clients and on-lookers whenever someone will look. Granted, what excites me enough to share and teach is oft more technical than most, but they’re things I would have enjoyed hearing (then I could have learned them earlier!) and I think others would too.
With that solidly in my mind, I began to think about what gets me up the morning, why I love going into work at US Digital, and how others might benefit from it. Since Wednesday night, I’ve been rolling the idea of talking about the LAMP stack. Granted, at work we’re not using all the correct applications (our M is MSSQL not MySQL), but I’ve worked with true LAMP, WAMP, and several other unmentionable stacks, and there’s a small project that I’ll be dedicating some time to that will be using it to LAMP to its fullest.
Obviously, the LAMP stack is nothing new to many developers, but I do believe people miss the benefits and power of Linux and especially Apache. Along those lines, I’d want to expand the talk to not only LAMP, but building the perfect workflow: from using Subversion (or other SCM software) to VNC to Mantis Bug Tracking to PEAR to PECL and all of the things that I believe make the perfect Web stack.
What do you think? Would you care to listen to how to build the perfect Web stack from the ground up? If so, let me know in the comments!
Write something on the perfect stack – I would read it and love it.