MindWorksDev has done a tremendous amount of development and consulting on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), but our current preferred and recommended configuration is Linux (Ubuntu), Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 5.5+.
We’re not just web developers – we’re also sysadmins, so we’re able to provide your project or business a full package of web services. We develop custom code and plugins in CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal where applicable, as well as PHP frameworks like Laravel, Slim/Silex, Symphony, Phalcon, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc. We’re always looking to push things forward with jQuery and AngularJS. This powerful combination of web technologies allows us to develop professional websites rapidly.
We have worked with a large number of PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, FuelPHP, CakePHP, Phalcon, Symfony, Zend, Yii, etc) but the one we recommend the most is Laravel. Laravel to us has the most expressive syntax, and allows for rapid application development, and yet hides an enormous amount of power and control under the hood. It was built explicitly for object orientation, unit tests, and Composer, resulting in high qualtiy, easily tested and deployable code.
We use Git and Subversion to track code and we believe in being completely transparent with regard to our code.