I just received an email about "the best way to setup a SharePoint Development Environment". I talk about how to do it in some of my workshops, but I found this great article that walks you through several variations of setting it up, but seems to be very well done.
Since I had to dig it up for one of my blog-readers, I thought that I would share it with everyone else. :)

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