<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As for making changes on "the server" being a bad idea, we don't make changes on *the* server. We make changes on *a* server. The development server, to be specific. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">---</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rob McBroom</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I have worked like that in the past.</DIV><DIV><A href="http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2007/03/30/web-development-environment-and-workflow">http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2007/03/30/web-development-environment-and-workflow</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is nothing wrong with having an environment that requires uploading files to a dev/test server before you can test them.</DIV><DIV>Other than being really tedious and annoying that is ;)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hopefully TextMate 2.0 will allow for plugins and bundle commands that can make integrating FTP/SCP a lot easier.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've written a command that helps me formulate good SCP commands.</DIV><DIV>I then check them over and execute them manually from the terminal.</DIV><DIV><I>You can never be too careful with your production server :D</I></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>