While we have developed in many different “flavors” for many platforms, our primary development environment is the open source LAMP environment. LAMP consists of a group of open source software used to run dynamic web sites and servers, including:

1. Linux operating system
2. Apache web server
3. MySQL database management system
4. PHP

Why LAMP?

Linux’s tools have been the most trusted solutions since the beginning of the World Wide Web. Currently, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and Python (LAMP) add up to more than two-thirds of the servers, databases and scripting languages in existence on the web today.

So what’s the major attraction to LAMP tools?

Frankly, it’s the open source foundation of LAMP tools. They’re freely available, easily configured and very strong solutions. They’re continually in a constant state of development and improvement with features added regularly by developers. They’re easily positioned, fully configured and require minimal management. Basically, the LAMP tool kit allows developers to spend their time developing and not on other miscellaneous details.

For fully custom and rapid application development, our preferred development frameworks are CakePHP and Drupal. And when it comes to Content Management Systems, we find you can’t go wrong with WordPress and Drupal.