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Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Web

When you reflect on how technology has transformed different industries such as medical, financial, or social, one of the biggest components to these changes is software development. Yet despite the fact that software development is such a crucial component to other industries, it’s amazing to me how little the practices used to write code have improved over the years. IDE Software and a keyboard are really the only tools a programmer uses on a daily basis, yet somehow these tools have barely evolved in the last few decades. This post, we’re going to focus on Integrated Development Environments and save keyboard hardware for another time.

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Download Files Recursively with PHP

There are many tutorials and scripts out there that will help you download/get ftp files from one server to another, but this is a slimmed down version that doesn’t have any unneeded fluff. There’s a linear approach to setting up FTP connection info, as well as a OOP example of performing server actions. If you’re familiar with OOP, this would be ideal to condense and refine into the FTP Class, otherwise, if you just want this to work without worrying about classes or scope, you can copy/paste the contents from the class into the linear script and it’ll get you where you need to go. Cloud servers can be a great way to host these heavy processes or bulky PHP scripts. Feel free to leave comments or questions.

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“Get Off My Cloud”


I keep seeing blog posts complaining about the cloud, and I feel like too few of people are standing up for the cloud; probably because most recognize the value of cloud computing and don’t feel the need to prove it’s worth. Regardless of whether you get cloud computing or not, I find it’s time to speak up and share my opinion as a developer and 24/7 internet user. Furthermore, I would like to say if you have a problem with the cloud, get off it. Operating systems and applications exist without the cloud, so stop polluting the atmosphere for the rest of us with your unrooted, anti-cloud remarks.

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