Finally got around to trying Vagrant on my Windows machine at work, it’s excellent! Was using EasyPHP before this. Love that I can better match my production environment and have access to powerful Unix commands (without installing Cygwin)!
Thanks for the clear – and amusing – instructions. I’ll be using this on OS X and Windows for my dev environment.
Trying Composer now. I’ve seen it mentioned in PHP ‘best practise’ articles but as I’m unfamiliar with other dependency managers I never grokked it. Your post made it clear. Love the cleanliness of managing dependencies on a project level.
http://www.phptherightway.com is a useful starting point but a post like this makes these tools much more accessible to people like me who’ve not used them before.
Thanks for another excellent post!

Ill second that, Vagrant looks to be an intersting take on virtual machines

@ Chris Wellons:

Yeah I’m loving it. Since I found out about it, there is like no need for me to even bother setting up php/apache/mysql or any other unixy environment on Windows/Mac :P

Also, this might be a way better method of getting CLISP environment working on Windows than Cygwin.

Holy shit, Luke!!! Vagrant is awesome! I will definitely be using this a lot in the future.