What do you use FTP for? Are you editing deployed code on a test server? If so you really need to bring your development workflow into 2013 because that's quite possibly the worst way to do it. Ideally you should be using actual version control, preferably Git, and continuous integration software to deploy test servers.

i use ftp for a dev server. i dont want to commit code i havent tested yet. what do you recommend?

I use ftpto configure daemons, yall can have fun with your shitty vim

I use Capistrano for ruby shit (BRANCH=master exec cap staging deploy is east to type over dragging files and shit) , s3cmd shell scripts for my jekyll blog and if i don't feel like setting up automation i'll ssh into a server and do a git pull.

btw I'm not even a developer (well i guess I can code a fair bit) I'm a Product Designer.

This post was edited by WhyteLinux on Dec 21 2013 04:41am

I'm not primarily a web developer (I work on some stats and data warehousing software that has a small web component) but the workflow is similar. We have our IDE that runs a development environment for our web app (running on an embedded jetty instance via IntelliJ Ultimate 12/13) to test features locally. We also use Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org/) to do continuous integration for us. Any committed code gets folding into a nightly build that Hudson manages on our dev server so we can do testing on a deployed environment. You could even have it set up to do builds more often. We don't because our software package takes a reasonable time to build and deploy.

If hudson fails to build or if any regression and/or unit tests fail our whole team will get an email and hudson will disallow you from making a distribution until it's fixed.