Uh, you do web development work without a local install on your own desktop/laptop of the database, Apache and the rest of the neccesary environment?

Sounds... painful. Isn't it hard to e.g. write tests if you can't separate out everything cleanly? (Or is the DB helvetes(*) large and just too much to keep locally?)

(*) I saw people discussing in the CB that we shouldn't offend people with four letter words. If any over-sensitive people know Swedish, please let me know and I'll Google for the relevant expressions in some other language. :-)