• stembolts@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    This application looks fine to me.

    Clearly labeled sections.

    Local on one side, remote on the other

    Transfer window on bottom.

    No space for anything besides function, is the joke going over my head?

    • tiramichu@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with the program at all =)

      Modern webapp deployment approach is typically to have an automated continuous build and deployment pipeline triggered from source control, which deploys into a staging environment for testing, and then promotes the same precise tested artifacts to production. Probably all in the cloud too.

      Compared to that, manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated, to the extent that newbies in the biz can’t even believe we ever did it that way. But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago.

      • lightnegative@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

        Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

        When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

        Good times!