Rick Caminiti dotCOM

This is another great tool that I just downloaded and tried out.  Again, if you’re a web developer, you know how nasty some of those FTP tools can be and how cumbersome it is to edit a file, save it, FTP it, then refresh your browser to see the changes. 

Of course, if I still had a decent deveoplent environment, I probably wouldn’t be complaining, but who really does!?  Anyway, this nifty little tool allows you to “mount” FTP sites to a windows drive.  It’s just like mapping a drive letter to a network share, but this is mapped to your FTP server. 

With this, to “log on” to my FTP site, all I have to do us run Z:/<ftpname> in my command prompt and I’m there.  I have all the options with a right click as I do with all of my other files.  So if I’m editting an image, I can open it directly with Photoshop, or if it’s a php file, I can open it directly with Notepad++ and edit it in place.  When I save it, the changes are immediately active on my website.  Of course, this doesnt’ come without caution.  I’m always backed up and I know what I’m doing.  This is a good way to kill your whole website if you don’t know what you’re doing

Check it out here.  Enjoy. 

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In fact, I think I’ll go ahead and back-up now