On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Brian O'Connor <gatzby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Buy a laptop.] This way, you get the luxury of portability ... In > addition, you don't have 2 separate computers where you have to worry about > file syncing (I know, I know, remote repositories - but that's not as easy > as it sounds sometimes). > Since this came up, I thought I'd share what I'm doing, since it seems to work well for me. Note: I am not a professional web developer, but I do play one at the front of the classroom. I have two servers at school -- one for development and one for production. Both Debian (although I am running testing on the dev box and stable on the prod box). I do my development by using MacFusion ( http://www.macfusionapp.org/) to mount my $HOME/public_html directory from the testing box onto my MacBook Pro (or my iMac, if I'm at home), and then run Aptana Studio to develop. Aptana thinks it's working with files on a local drive, so it doesn't have to do anything fancy -- and neither did I to get it set up. So, wherever I am -- home, school, Panera, hotel -- I can mount that dev box locally and play with the files. To push changes to production, I just scp them over to the production machine. As far as keeping everything else in sync, I have been making heavy use of my free accounts on both Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/) and Dropbox ( http://www.getdropbox.com/), and they have been life savers. As far as a web development machine (oh yeah, the original thread!), I would also recommend a Mac with lots of RAM, because then, in the host OS and two VMs, you can now test pretty much every browser people will conceivably use to visit your site. Just my $0.02, -c
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