> > So what do you do when you're on vacation in the boonies and the > messenger pigeon comes with that "the world will collapse in on itself > if program X isn't doing Y by Z time"? >
This is a little hard to follow. If what you're asking is what I think the answer is that "I'm on vacation. Sorry." Any vacations I take are either a) I'm available and therefore will have my laptop. or b) "How did you get this number? Don't call here again." type vacations. Plus I guess I just don't work on stuff that's as critical as you. For me I get a job, come up with a timeline, finish it, move on. Regardless though, what difference does that make on whether I develop locally or on a dev server? > Sounds like a pretty boring decade (or you are very lucky), but > whatever flicks your bic. :)p Really? How often do you lose your connectivity? And if you do, for how long? > I don't /have/ to rely on anything but me. You /can/ rely on > anything, but with my way, you don't /have/ to. I guess. However if I manage the server remotely, and admin CFServer and SQLServer I don't see how I'm not relying on myself. The only link in that chain I don't control is connectivity, and as I said, I can trust it's reliability. > Plus you learn stuff it never hurts to know (sorta like learning HTML > even though you could just use a WYSIWYG editor). > What the heck are you talking about Denny? How am I learning more by setting up SQL server locally instead of remotely? The same for CF server? That doesn't make any sense. > But I *love* knowing how stuff works... a lot. > Something we can agree on. > It'd be painful to not know if I'd changed something, or if someone else > had. > Agreed. That's why one keeps docs and change logs. Not using versioning software doesn't mean it's development anarchy. > With your set up, you're putting a lot of faith in stuff you cannot > "see" (and apparently been pretty lucky thusfar-- but it *is* luck), > which is fine and dandy, but I prefer to make as much of my own luck > as possible. To keep the "luck" contained to things like gravity > working and whatnot. > So you figure the folks at the co-location company just bumble around changing peoples servers and such? I understand your argument metaphorically but in reality it's not all the valid since I can know I can trust a) my ISP to keep my connected and b) my co-location provider not to fiddle with my machine. > It's a trust issue. See above. > And a sanity/memory issue. Not sure I follow. My sanity remains in tact (well, as much sanity as there is to begin with). Perhaps you have the wrong view here Denny. I develop on a dev server and don't use versioning software. That doesn't mean there's no structure or logic. I have a dev server. I back up the files and db's on the regular. I keep detailed documentation about all projects I do. I keep detailed change logs and assign my own version numbers so there's never any confusion. For me, it's fairly simple and quick. I don't waste my profits on bloated processes and setup. Would this be an ideal situation if I was developing Facebook with 50 other devs? Defo not. But it seems to work pretty good for me. I'm not sure why you are jumping to such conclusions about how I develop apps. I just don't feel like taking a day per machine to set up CFServer, SQL server et al. Nor do I feel like giving up a bunch of processing power to accommodate that stuff locally. Know what I'm sayin? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311094 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
