Again, bullshit. I've had PHP projects that were entirely command-line with no Apache and MySQL. If you want to argue that those projects weren't development, that's absurd.
Systems and database administration are hugely complimentary skills, but someone who doesn't know anything about setting either one up is still developing.
I agree with you in a literal sense. I'd add the adjective 'extremely poorly' to 'developing' for any developer who doesn't have a thorough grasp of the system for which they are developing.
Systems and database administration are hugely complimentary skills, but someone who doesn't know anything about setting either one up is still developing.