• Install iTerm2 from https://www.iterm2.com/
• Install oh-my-zsh from https://ohmyz.sh/ or https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
• Set iTerm2 theme tab theme to Dark - Preferences | Appearance | Tabs | Theme > Dark
• Install Fira Code fonts from https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode (Clone and navigate to dstr > ttf, install all font files by double clicking)
• Install Powerline fonts from https://github.com/powerline/fonts
• Set fonts for iTerm2 - Preferences | Profiles | Text
  • Change Font to 14pt Fira code regular and Check Use Ligatures checkbox
  • Change Non ASCII Font to 14pt Fira mono and Check Use Ligatures checkbox
• Install iTerm2 snazzy theme from https://github.com/sindresorhus/iterm2-snazzy
  • Navigate to Preferences | Profiles | Color Presets > Snazzy

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

#You should do all your LAMP development in a Virtual Machine

##Here's Why:

Many of us develop on Macintoshes. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that it's based on a Unix platform of some sort. This allows us to run common server software such as Apache, Ruby, Python and Nodejs on our Macs.

Our computers become powerful develoment machines similar to the servers our apps will eventually live on.

Sometime we start our computer only to find Apache won't start, or MySQL can't create a PID file, or we've updated to Mountain Lion and Apache needs to be reconfigured. Death!