> they were being developed by FTPing files to production server or even editing them live with vim or something.
Many editors / IDEs (e.g. Notepad++) can directly connect to the FTP server, so working on a FTP servers looks almost same as working on a local folder. You just make changes to the files, and then refresh the web browser to see the changes.
Many editors / IDEs (e.g. Notepad++) can directly connect to the FTP server, so working on a FTP servers looks almost same as working on a local folder. You just make changes to the files, and then refresh the web browser to see the changes.