Lamp

The Apache webserver has been the most popular software used to serve websites, almost since its inception. Only once, recently was it knocked off the #1 spot, and that was only temporarily, when a very small number of mass-hosts used reportedly used Microsoft’s IIS webserver. That didn’t last long though, and so Apache HTTPD is now still serving over half of active sites after 20+ years of service.

Welcome to the first of an on-going series. I’ll be walking through the whole gamut of technologies that developers in London, the UK, and around the world are using. It’s a fast-moving collection of languages, tools and techniques that are hard enough to keep up up for highly technical developers and geeks, so it’s not surprising that other people have trouble keeping up.