Hi all, wasn’t sure where to ask this. My apologies if this isn’t in the right place.
But I wanted to ask the Sublime Text web site and community.
I own a small social publishing software company and we are looking at ways to speed up development of our core products. If you do a google on “social publishing software” you’ll see us #1 MediaBlinkk. My apologies for listing that, just wanted to give you some context. Anywho we currently use dreamweaver for development across the board.
I really like Sublime Text 2, but we are stopped dead in a couple of places in being able to use it and roll it out to all the guys/2 girls.
We hate how slow Dreamweaver is in general and how badly and slowly the ftp works(sometimes does/doesn’t) as well.
Our development goes as follows:
As a developer:
- We develop on a local machine.
- Test on a local machine. Local apache web server. A lot, if not most of the time this is on the developer’s machine, as they try out various options.
- Then after testing, upload the file or files to the remote production server.
I’m guessing we aren’t alone in this. Maybe hundreds of thousands if not millions of developments should go this way.
Edited locally, posted copy to test and then posted to the production area. Each one nicely separated for continuity and to remove any slip ups.
We can’t afford to have anyone working directly on the files in production, as they are being called and used by thousands of web sites all of the time.
What is everyone else doing when using a local work flow, test and then post to production, tips?
Basically we want to edit locally and save and then place a copy of that file for test in the local apache htdocs directory, on the developer’s machine for them to test. And we don’t want to edit the files directly in test in the local apache htdocs directory.
Seems easy, but turns out to be a mini nightmare. =) Forcing us to go back to dreamweaver again. We just want to copy a file locally for test.
Thanks again for your help! And the community. We love the software and want to use it, just have to work out the flow above in a way that doesn’t eat up all the time that we save. =) What we want to do seems, so simple so tips are much appreciated.
-C
Sorry if this seems like a dumb question. =) TIA.