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How do you develop your applications?

Locally
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84%
Remotely
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16%
 
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how do you develop?

Post by s.dot »

I just recently set up php/mysql/apache on my computer.

Since ive started learning a little over a year ago I have always made the file locally, saved, uploaded to a remote server & then tested. Then if there's errors, make changes locally, reupload, retest.

Doing it locally without uploading is so much easier. I should've done this from the beginning.
Is developing & testing remotely an odd thing to do?
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Post by Charles256 »

i develop locally.mainly because I grow weary of uploading...
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Post by Buddha443556 »

I develop locally with vhost and my host file to separate the projects.
Is developing & testing remotely an odd thing to do?
It's something I don't encourage anyone to do on a shared server. I rather crash my local server than a shared server with hundreds of other users. The other day I crashed MySQL locally, did it a couple dozen times till I found the bug, bet that would've ticked off my shared hosting neighbors.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Depends on what I'm working on but generally speaking, it's an even split.
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Overall, locally where I build a duplicate of the server it will end up sitting on (as best I can) to help me reproduce any conditions it may run into and other quirks that often happen on the odd server.
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I chose locally but that's just because it's what I do the majority of the time. I'll often SSH into a box and develop using nano or emacs too :)
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Post by alex.barylski »

Any projects I start from scratch I program locally...

If I come into a existing project which is large and depends on a database or other factors, I just use my editors built in FTP...
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Indeed. Uploading files was like 80% of my time programming. Sheesh, i could've gotten so much more done.
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Post by Roja »

My desktop is a windows machine. I ssh to a remote linux box (in my basement), where I code, and test my code.

I use a browser to open the page hosted on the linux box. So, its remote, but its kinda local too. Not sure, so I put Remote.

I can't stand cluttering my windows machine with a webserver, and php, and mysql, and and..
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Post by psychotomus »

Once your good. Most of your code is error free =) so its coding and testing final product.

scottayy wrote:Indeed. Uploading files was like 80% of my time programming. Sheesh, i could've gotten so much more done.
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psychotomus wrote:Once your good. Most of your code is error free =) so its coding and testing final product.

scottayy wrote:Indeed. Uploading files was like 80% of my time programming. Sheesh, i could've gotten so much more done.
well i dunno if im 'good' but my code's hardly ever error free the first time through :P
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of course im running into a few problems like setting up my mail server and chmodding. it'd probably be best to develop on my bsd box
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