System Requirements

I am developing on a linux system x64 with a standard LAMP setup. MySql version is 5.0.27, PHP version is 5.1.6, Apache version is 2.2.6. I am also using ProtoType 1.6.0.1 for JavaScript and AJAX calls.

I am trying to use as few "wrappers" as possible but I found ProtoType to be a fantastic achievement and a doddle to use so it gets my thumbs up. Solely for future-proofing I am going to use the mysqli interface between PHP and MySql (comments please). Also to hand is a simple, yet great, function called xmlize. It converts a piece of XML into an array which becomes so much easier to work with when you don't know XPath and XPointer.

I think thats it for now: if i discover anything else thats been added later I will let you know.