Web development in the cloud

Well, I have taken the plunge in to cloud computing for my Web development. But I’m not using Cloud9 or even the self-hosted version, I’m just on a bare-bones VPS and using Vim.

It seems silly to “go backwards in time” in terms of computing, dropping new GUIs and mouse movement for a terminal window. I do like using Visual Studio for what I have to do at work, but my personal projects tend to be coded in just a simple text editor, and Vim is the editor I’m finding myself using more often as I learn how to do more with it.

This is more of an experiment to see how much I can offload to a centralized server. And who knows, I might slowly move other activity to the server and start using Mutt for Email instead of Thunderbird and permanently camp out in a terminal window.

Also of note, this initial entry was written and compiled on my VPS in Vim and then published to my public Web space.