2011-11-22T15:52:22+00:00 http://foobars.com/ Jonathan Underwood jonathan@jyunderwood.com 2011-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 http://foobars.com/2011/11/web-development-cloud <h1 id="web-development-in-the-cloud">Web development in the cloud</h1> <p>Well, I have taken the plunge in to cloud computing for my Web development. But I’m not using <a href="http://cloud9ide.com/">Cloud9</a> or even the <a href="https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9">self-hosted version</a>, I’m just on a bare-bones VPS and using Vim.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt</a> for Email instead of Thunderbird and permanently camp out in a terminal window.</p> <p>Also of note, this initial entry was written and compiled on my VPS in Vim and then published to my public Web space.</p>