Comments on: Use Versioning: It Can Save Your Behind

By: Lynette

Lynette — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:05:33 +0000

@St. Francis: I need to check that Time Machine feature out. Don’t do a lot of development on the Mac here but it sounds very handy. Love the doing over part. How true.

@Jack: Not sure. I don’t use Dreamweaver. I’m sure many programs auto-save to your local computer. The reason I do this is, a lot of my theme editing is live – unless it’s adding major functionality. It’s easier that way than trying to keep the ones on my computer and the ones on the server synced up properly. So all the ‘versions’ are stored on the site (space consideration taken into account).

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:52:04 +0000

Not sure if you use DreamWeaver – but if you do – is it possible to do this automatically in DW?
Thanks
Jack

By: St. Francis Bird Feeders

St. Francis Bird Feeders — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:41:01 +0000

I’ve done that more often than I care to admit. One other thing that has helped bail me out for those sites I create on the computer is the Time Machine feature on the Mac, which makes an hourly backup. More than once I’ve messed something up only to go back to the old version, which it has kept for me.

I seem to live by the old saying that I don’t have time to do something right, but I have time to do it over!

By: Lynette

Lynette — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:58:06 +0000

@Stephanie: Good for you! It is so much easier. I too originally started with the modifications I made but the filenames became too long and sometimes the changes were complicated. Eventually, I moved all the mods into a log file that is kept outside the publicly accessible folders.

By: Stephanie Trahd

Stephanie Trahd — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:27:52 +0000

Interesting idea Lynette!

I usually do something similar in Notepad. I’ll save the file with the date and the change. For instance, I may call one backup sidebar-61308-Aweber (if I just added my Aweber webform to the sidebar on 6-13-08). Thanks for sharing!