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Does anyone have an equivalent workflow example for Windows? I get (git) the use of PhoneGap and GitHub, but the pieces before that which are local I keep playing with and haven't found anything I'm really happy with yet. Figure I'm not the only person still on Windows...

Additionally, I would be REAL interested to see if anyone has come up with a workable toolkit for doing this on an iPad or Android tablet? Not SSHing into a remote server but actually working locally.

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Locally, the only solutions I found revolved around WAMP/XAMPP. It does well until you need to customize how your web server and modules work.

Aside from that, I've been experimenting with a VM of Archlinux running on Windows and connecting to the Arch web server. So far it's decent and better than WAMP/XAMPP, but it does require a bit more work.

I use Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/) for working locally. I create a project folder and use whatever Linux distro, web server, framework, etc. the project calls for. And it's got all kinds of devops goodness by integrating with Chef and Puppet so you can create complex configurations easily.