On 3/23/11 6:16 PM, 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).
I tend to use a small portable drive that I store my virtual machines on, I then carry this drive between my desktop and laptops. This allows me to have everthing local and have a stable environment that I can take anywhere, version the env, share with others and do pretty much whatever I like with it. It does require the machine to have something like virtualbox installed, that would be the only draw back. I do like the ability to have it setup for one dev environment and I dont have to have all that stuff installed on multiple machines. Kinda best of both worlds. -- thebigdog _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
