Wade, it takes a while to recognize benefits of local, staging, and production environments.
I'm sure you will get there as you keep developing more apps. I agree that for you today that system is beneficial. Trevyn On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:30:59 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 Mar 2011, at 10:04, Jonathan Grotegut wrote: > >> I am curious why you edit files directly on a server? I always like to make >> sure I have copies of my files just in case I really mess something up I >> have something to go back to. >> >> Maybe it is because I don't regularly backup my websites as they do not >> change very often... > > I much prefer editing on a remote server for web development. Note > that I am not editing live files on a live web server, but it is a > remote server. My biggest reason for preferring this is that I only > have to set up the development environment once. I can connect from > any machine and I have PHP, MySQL, and Apache installed, configured, > and ready to go, and exactly where I left them. It's also very > beneficial for a team. We don't have to all have Apache installed on > our work stations with the special config and mod_rewrites, or a > separate copy of the database architecture with all the dummy data, > etc, etc, etc. My preferred work environment is a development server > that all the developers work off of via SFTP. They check their code > into and out of version control from there. The other thing that is > really nice about the remote server is that anyone can preview your > development sandbox from anywhere. If it was on a local laptop, then > it'd be offline when the laptop was asleep o > r turned off. > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
