I arrived in London tonight for a couple of days training starting tomorrow. Upon arrival and saying goodbye to the nice air hostesses with the interesting headwear, I checked my emails to find a client in a panic as his website was falling apart in IE7 for some unknown reason.
He was quite concerned as, although it’s never good for a site to fall over, this week he received quite alot of media coverage and was getting alot of traffic off the back of it. Not a good time for a site to fail but as with Murphy’s Law…
Anyway, after a quite look on my iPhone I realised that a third party script had failed. I hasten to add, I did not develop this site, I’ve just took over the maintenance recently after the company that built the site went to the wall. Digging into this site, it’s not hard to see why, but that’s beside the point.
Speaking of the point, I suppose I should get to it, I just wanted to let you know about a useful little site, net2ftp, which is a web based FTP client. This handy little web app made it super easy, once I found the nearest Internet point in the airport, to jump in, disable the offending code and get the site up and running again until I can get a closer look.
Also worth a mention is FTP on the Go, an FTP client iPhone app. I have this as well but don’t store any usernames or passwords on it for security reasons*, and can only recall the FTP details of my own site off the top of my head. But, if you have the memory for it, it’s also a great little app that will allow you to edit code via FTP anywhere.
As I was reminded again tonight, this can come in very handy indeed.
*On that security note, always remember to log out of any remote FTP service or risk the consequences at your peril!
