[BLUG] another thing to mull over: collaborative web development

[Joe Auty]

The editor I'm using is called Textmate. It looks like it supports  
Subversion (which many people are replacing CVS with), so I'll have  
to look into this as well:

http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/11/06/subversion-support-and- 
ssh-key-pairs/



The challenge here is MySQL data replication. I need to be able to  
develop with access to my MySQL backend. Fortunately, I actually run  
this server, so perhaps what I'll look into is replicating just this  
DB to my local copy and testing against it... I'm already running a  
complete MySQL replica on my test server so that I have a sort of  
live backup (in addition to snapshots, which I save for up to a  
week), perhaps I can extend this further.

Hmmm.. many things to mull over and consider, this is more  
complicated than I thought! Perhaps I should write up my solution (if  
I find one) into my blog, since surely others have been faced with my  
problem too.

Thanks again for all the good ideas!



On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:38 AM, ben lipkowitz wrote:

> Oops, it seems i misunderstood what the problem was in my previous  
> post, and hit "send" a little too fast. Your problem appears to be  
> that you need to use CVS or somesuch because the GUI editor doesn't  
> lock the files that it's editing, and your GUI web devel software  
> is lacking a 'CVS commit' button. So, in this case the proper  
> solution would be to add a button to your GUI editor. I'd hope your  
> editor has a "run script" menu entry of some sort, but if not you  
> could set up a daemon to watch the file and upload it automatically  
> via CVS.
>
>> Have you considered just mounting your webserver using NFS or  
>> samba or fish?
>> And didn't appletalk die a slow horrible death back in the mid  
>> nineties?
>> On a similar note, I was trying to figure out how to synchronize  
>> my laptop with my workstation automatically, and something called  
>> "Unison" seems to be the best software available:
>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
>>
>> but I haven't tried it out yet, so if you like it, please let us  
>> know :)
>>
>> -fenn
>>
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