[Sussex] Linux and Web Development Article

[Paul Graydon]

Steven Dobson wrote:

> That wasn't what struct me.  I like his bit on gFTP and how fustracting
> he found it to use because it wouldn't hold the link to the server while
> he was editing the files locally.
> 
> I don't think he's got it into his head that he can run a web server on
> his desktop system!  I almost never have to deploy files to a remote
> system [1].
> As I do the odd bit of web development I run apache on my desktop system
> and have a virtual server pointing at by development environment.
> Testing is just a save in the editor followed by a refresh in the
> browser.

It seems odd that he's got that kind of fixation.  For years now I've 
had apache2triad or the like running on my Windows box, and natch a LAMP 
setup on my little *nix box.  Whilst I don't do huge amounts of web 
work, all work is done locally, tested thoroughly, and then only when 
I'm satisfied with it does it get uploaded to the public server.

PHP programming is not one of my great skills, I'll be the first to 
admit, and a lot of it can be construed as being "trial and error" where 
I have a stab at stuff.  Its so much quicker and easier just hitting 
save and then refreshing the browser when you might be making lots of 
small changes one at a time to fix things.

Paul