A brief overview of the benefits of creating a local instance of Drupal, called a "sandbox", and how to create a working version quickly using the Drupal Quickstart project.
See http://wp.me/p2FI0z-nO for related blog post.
4.
worry-free way to learn drupal
easy to set up
learn to manage a server
if you mess it up, delete it and start over!
runs on any OS – no need to config
mac/windows
no MAMP/WAMP/XAMPP/CAMP/STAMP needed
all open source – just like drupal
can push to production site when ready
no bandwidth issues
zero dollars
5.
LAMP stack pre-configured
linux (ubuntu)/apache/mySQL/PHP
drush (DRUpal SHell – command line interface)
sample make files
sample drupal 6/7 sites already up and running
netbeans code editor
gitg version control
user(me)
= lazy;
= busy;
!= dev;
7.
control your entire site through a command
line interface (CLI)
download modules/themes:
drush dl projectname
enable downloaded items
drush en projectname