WebDAV? – I can feel my mind going…

WebDAV? – I can feel my mind going…

As you are no doubt aware, I live in a world dominated (professionally
anyway) by three big companies.

• Adobe – the people who make Photoshop
  exist in my life pretty much only for that one thing and maybe Premiere.
  I have tried to like their other stuff… for a little while I thought LiveMotion
  might have a clue but it doesn’t. I thought maybe GoLive!
  might make sense – but it doesn’t. Oh yeah, I like After
  Effects.
• Microsoft – Well, there is away too much stuff to list here. Office,
  SQL Server,
  Windows
  and more. Add to that the gift they have given my life with .NET
  and you get the idea. I tried hard to like Frontpage
  for web stuff… but it just isn’t good enough. Though I do use it for quick
  blog entries
  because it is faster to bring up than my favorite tool.
• Macromedia – They have been a good company for me, growing in
  importance. Professionally I wind up with Director
  every now and then, even though I think it is a dead end tool. Flash
  has changed my life as a web developer and Ultradev
  is the big brother of Dreamweaver,
  a pair of incredible tools. I even like Fireworks,
  though I don’t do my primary graphics in it – just post-production.

Now that I have sufficiently whored myself out in the hopes of a free MSDN
Universal subscription we can get to my point. When one of my tools has a
bug that is in my main work path, it is a problem for me.

Ultradev/Dreamweaver has a bug in version 4. The bug is in the FTP module and
it makes for some
real
problems.
That’s OK though, I can get to my site another way – with something called WebDAV.
WebDAV is the eventual successor to FTP for authoring websites anyway – so I
tried it a while back when I move to my Rackspace
servers. It didn’t work. 

Why? Because the first version of WebDAV for Ultradev had bugs too. This was
a real problem. Sure, I could use a third party FTP program, but it was pretty
important to keep the check-in/check-out features. So I was screwed for a while,
constantly re-starting the program.

Then I found this….

Eagerly, I went off and installed it with a gleam in my eye and a song in my
heart. Wonder of wonders, it helped! Yeah, there are still some annoying bugs
but at least I can work without having to kill Ultradev every 10 minutes or so.
By the way, there are two other updates that seem useful.

Anyway, this is about it for now, sorry to make it so techie but sometimes it
happens that way.