Comments on: Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stuart Colville http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-38504 Stuart Colville Mon, 21 May 2007 13:55:29 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-38504 @Amit: One reason is because this would become painful to keep switching the hosts file around. For my hack to work I can simply load Charles or turn on and off the re-write rule. Also I have fine-grained control over what I do and don't re-write. I might want CSS files to be re-written and I might not. I can have a separate rule for .js file and CSS files and activate each one independently of each other. Lastly, I use MAMP which operates on a different port number. Again using the Charles method greatly simplifies this issue as I can re-write the files to any arbitrary url. @Amit: One reason is because this would become painful to keep switching the hosts file around. For my hack to work I can simply load Charles or turn on and off the re-write rule.

Also I have fine-grained control over what I do and don’t re-write. I might want CSS files to be re-written and I might not. I can have a separate rule for .js file and CSS files and activate each one independently of each other.

Lastly, I use MAMP which operates on a different port number. Again using the Charles method greatly simplifies this issue as I can re-write the files to any arbitrary url.

]]> By: Amit Upadhyay http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-38503 Amit Upadhyay Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:44 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-38503 Why didn't you consider etc/hosts file? I would just put an entry for yui.yahooapis.com to 127.0.0.1, setup apache, and place yui files preserving the path. Why didn’t you consider etc/hosts file? I would just put an entry for yui.yahooapis.com to 127.0.0.1, setup apache, and place yui files preserving the path.

]]> By: Ian Lloyd http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-37367 Ian Lloyd Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:07:05 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/04/26/online-and-offline-development-with-the-yui-and-charles/#comment-37367 I'm familiar with this quandary, but I've taken a different route. Put simply, every page includes a common file up front that, among other things, looks at the URL. If it spots a dev URL (dev.domainname.com) then it changes certain parameters, namely URL roots and what have you. Once that's done I don't really have to think of it again :) I'm not sure that it creates an overhead doing this, but then my sites aren't the kind where this is a deal-breaker! I’m familiar with this quandary, but I’ve taken a different route. Put simply, every page includes a common file up front that, among other things, looks at the URL. If it spots a dev URL (dev.domainname.com) then it changes certain parameters, namely URL roots and what have you. Once that’s done I don’t really have to think of it again :)

I’m not sure that it creates an overhead doing this, but then my sites aren’t the kind where this is a deal-breaker!

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