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On the other hand: remember cutting out images for rounded borders, using spacer images to align everything, using Javascript for roll over image swaps, GIF for
by pasta 9y ago
On the other hand: remember cutting out images for rounded borders, using spacer images to align everything, using Javascript for roll over image swaps, GIF for 'transparency'?
But I agree for most part. I also have +15jr old PHP sites running. It was like upload and forget.
But I'm so glad we now have version control and better IDEs.
- nickjj 9y agoHaha yes. Using images for rounded borders was classic. I remember many sleepless nights of trying to do pixel perfect Photoshop to HTML layouts too. Or using many chained characters to fix spacing issues. Yeah version control is definitely a win. I mean, back in the day my idea of testing was to take something like a blog.php file, copy it to blog2.php. Make my changes and upload it to the live production server. Since this new "2" version of the page wasn't linked anywhere I was free to manually test it in privacy. Then if it worked as expected, I would delete the old blog.php file, rename the blog2.php to blog.php and upload it. That was a "release". Zero downtime deploys without Kubernetes or load balancers, circa 2003.
- y4mi 9y ago> Zero downtime deploys without Kubernetes or load balancers, circa 2003. it always irks me when i read a sentence like that. * if something went wrong, your site would've been down. completely. irrelevent and easy to recover from as a small hobby page, but incredibly expensive if you need to honor a high uptime SLA. * stateless services that don't need schema migrations are still very easy to upgrade without kubernetes -- or load balancers for that matter.
- segmondy 9y agoThere have been version control and great IDEs for about 40 years.