Having recently become the proud owner of a new, kick–ass Evesham laptop, I needed to get WAMP set–up on it so I could do some development work. Although I’ve tackled getting the individual elements installed many times over in the past, it’s hardly a task I look forward to. So it was with great satisfaction that I discovered the XAMPP package, which installs all the key web development components you could ever need from one download. I opted for the light version, as I only really needed php, MySQL and Apache, and was very impressed with the fact that it worked exactly as advertised.