Programming used to be fun. Thanks to PHP's support for Windows builds, you can run very efficient web sites on Windows and have a good time making them. This blog is a small collection of the additional things I've needed to help me build a few sites.
A little bit late but I've updated to PHP 5.5. There are a few improvements that I like, and a great opcache extension, all covered in detail here so no need to go on about it: http://www.php.net/manual/migration55.new-features.php.
New PHP extension builds
New builds of php_sqlsrv and php_spidermonkey are available including PHP 5.5 supporting 32 and 64 bits (64-bit builds are in the x64 folder of the zip file).