One of the reasons that I wanted to start this up again is so I had a little development diary and could also mention a few things that don’t belong elsewhere on RPoL.\u00a0 “Bitching a moaning” probably dominates previous posts.\u00a0 (c;<\/p>\n
Back in.. uh… 2000 to 2004? …\u00a0 Back when I was working at the datacentre where RPoL was also hosted, I found it fantastically quick to do coding.\u00a0 Whatever I wrote could almost instantly be uploaded to the beta site for testing.\u00a0 The server was physically about 5 metres from me.<\/p>\n
Since both myself and RPoL have left that place I’ve tried to setup similar test beds, but nothing has stuck.\u00a0 Finally I recently installed Sun’s VirtualBox on my desktop machine, installed (err,\u00a0grabbed a ready image of)\u00a0CentOS 5.1 (which the RPoL server runs), installed all the various applications that RPoL uses, and gently applied a hammer to get Berkeley DB to work.\u00a0 I then grabbed a copy of RPoL’s data and voila, I have my own local copy of\u00a0RPoL Alpha\u00a0running on my machine.\u00a0 Then with the help of WinSCP doing a “Keep remote directory up to date”, anything I edit here is uploaded to the alpha site within a second.\u00a0 No longer am I forced to wait for 10 or whatever seconds to upload to the dedicated server in America before I can test if a tiny change worked.<\/p>\n
I’ve found it amazingly helpful, and really great for speeding through code changes.<\/p>\n
It will also let me test code a lot more before I upload it to beta, which used to suffer from very alpha and unfinished code as it was where I uploaded every code change, whether it worked or not.\u00a0 Beta will get updated at pretty much the same pace, it just won’t get all the intermediate test script uploads that I do that leave the site in a sad state of disarray.<\/p>\n
The new private groups are looking good, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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