Notes on starting programming again

• Trying to configure Apache + PHP + mysql on a heavily locked-down Windows environment is an incredible pain in the arse.
• Following on from that, it turns out that XAMPP is packaged with no less than three php.ini files. The one that apache uses is in /apache/bin. Obviously.
• Today's PHP type-un-safe gotcha: it transpires that (FALSE == ""). Crazy.