So you were happy with Camtasia? How much does it cost? And compare to Adobe's product, whose name I forgot.<br>Sort of off topic so maybe reply privately to me. <br>Thanks Tony<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Sohodojo Jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salmons@sohodojo.com">salmons@sohodojo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[Jim notes:] For those jumping into the middle of this on-going thread, our<br>
comments are in reference to a webcast found here:<br>
<a href="http://www.sohodojo.biz/sqlyog" target="_blank">http://www.sohodojo.biz/sqlyog</a>.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Jim:<br>
> Thanks, I think I've got your procedure down. Makes sense. One thing you<br>
> say in the video is that while you are developing, you are regularly<br>
> updating changes to your live server. I think you mean to your -dev db,<br>
> don't you? That way you don't put your ongoing work into the public<br>
> server until end of day when you've got everything working.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>[Jim replies:]<br>
That sounds about right... I'll have to give a closer listen and look to the<br>
video as I was under some time pressure to get it into the contest and,<br>
honestly, it was a "wing-it" (and my first Camtasia) production.<br>
<br>
More generally, your summary statement is spot on -- that the basic idea is<br>
to always grab a start-of-day copy of the database from the live server --<br>
and this copy serves, first, as your back-up of the remote/live server and<br>
second, it is the 'seed' for your my-work-today local copy of the database.<br>
<br>
A couple things this helps you do so as not to be your own worst enemy are:<br>
<br>
1. You have that today-fresh back-up of your live DB.<br>
<br>
2. No matter how close together you _think_ your dev and live sites are<br>
DB-wise,<br>
don't assume. Because sure enough, there will be days where that<br>
assumption<br>
is not as good as you think and you end up in an "Oops!" moment.<br>
<br>
3. By working against the latest version of your live data, you<br>
_significantly_<br>
reduce the delta between your development version and your live version.<br>
This is a _big_ deal when you do end-of-day re-synchronization. You will<br>
be looking at a limited set of table/record differences that are limited<br>
to only several hours of activity. Any DB copy older than that and you<br>
can<br>
lose yourself in the mucky-muck of trying to figure out record-wise<br>
diffs<br>
as either 'important', 'not sure', 'toss-able'.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Just a suggestion: The diagrams with arrows and sequence numbers are very<br>
> helpful. It would be very helpful, in your explanation if you'd give a<br>
> quick overview. Like, for example: "What I do is make changes working<br>
> with a WAMP local version where the db is the same name as the public<br>
> version. Then, I keep 2 backups so that I have a recent public version<br>
> that isn't touched, and a version that is saved from the previous day's<br>
> work."<br>
<br>
</div>[Jim replies:]<br>
Good idea. In fact, since this was a PowerPoint slide show that I ran<br>
concurrently with the 'live action' stuff for the webcast capture, I can<br>
easily do static slide images and use them for a text-based annotation of<br>
the webcast.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> I've done a bunch of tutorial work for students, and it helps to let them<br>
> know the overall structure and philosophy before giving the details. That<br>
> way any ambiguity might make sense to them.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>[Jim replies:]<br>
Agreed. There is nothing like foisting some material on the uninitiated to<br>
reveal all the assumptions and holes in a presentation... Like, for a<br>
trivial-but-could-cause-an-international-incident example, I noticed this<br>
morning that I misspelled "Guinness" (as in Stout) in one of the thought<br>
bubble 'cheeky annotations' that I threw in -- I was not literally but<br>
figuratively drunk with my rapid learning curve of learning and using<br>
Camtasia features! :-)<br>
<br>
> Thanks for the video.<br>
<br>
[Jim replies:]<br>
You are welcome! Glad it was useful to you.<br>
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