Since, you can safely power the mini development board (at this time) by the PICkit™ 2 Microcontroller Programmer itself, remember to switch off the mini development board’s power supply during ICSP ...

OCaPIC is an embedded OCaml implementation that runs on Microchip PIC microcontrollers.

All of Microchip ’s baseline PIC microcontrollers have internal 4-MHz oscillators, which are useful for freeing up one or two pins for I/O use and allowing you to build minimal-component-count designs ...