On 23 Mar 2011, at 18:16, Mac Newbold wrote: > One disadvantage of a local dev environment is that it is local to > exactly one computer. If you always develop on that box (i.e. a > laptop) then it can make sense, but if you have a box at work and a > different box at home or elsewhere that you sometimes use, or a > desktop and a laptop, then your dev environment is stranded on the one > box where it is set up, and when you pick up where you left off on a > different machine, none of your local changes are there. If it applies > to you, it's a showstopper though for having one local dev environment > rather than having a dev environment out in the cloud somewhere. It > also comes in handy if your local box is more likely to fail or have > problems or need upgrades etc. than the remote dev environment, which > in my experience is typically the case > (desktops and laptops have lower average uptime than a server environment).
This describes my scenario exactly. I have a desktop in my office, a desktop a home, and a laptop I carry around. I bounce back and forth between the laptop and the desktop many times through the day (in and out of meetings, etc). With SFTP, I just keep working regardless of what computer I'm on. > The other disadvantages are related to the other things you mention: > many of us haven't solved the whole "getting a dev environment set up > anywhere quickly" problem, nor do we need to set up new dev > environments often. Also, with a local dev environment it takes extra > steps (loading it onto some other remote environment) in order to > easily let others see your changes and play with them. With an > already-remote environment, other people can see changes just as fast > as you can, with no extra work, which in many cases I have used to > great advantage so I can tweak things as they watch and sign off. Again, you describe ways I have utilized this method many times. Immediately after saving a file someone can refresh and see the changes from anywhere in the world (via VPN). _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
