Ben Allfree :: Painless Programming

I was working on a PHP app today. Just a plain old, nothing fancy, queries-right-in-the-code, edit-it-live-on-the-server PHP app. And you know what? I got shit done.

InfiniteBits, the FTP solution for Amazon S3, is now seeking venture capital investors.

InfiniteBits, a leading product providing web browser and FTP access to Amazon S3, now has a free membership level.Using the free Basic membership, customers can try the service and temporarily store files for up to 10 days at a time. For more information, see http://www.infinitebits.info/signup.

Ben Allfree was a featured vendor at the recent Amazon Developer Conferences in Palo Alto and San Francisco.InfiniteBits, Ben's web-scale solution providing web and FTP access to Amazon S3, was both a crowd pleaser and a curiosity for developers and customers just learning about Amazon S3.Ben Allfree is a leader in the field of technical [...]

Today, we launched a new product site: InfiniteFTP!InfiniteFTP is the FTP server using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) to store files. Amazon S3 provides infinite storage. Our FTP server provides a standards-based FTP bridge to Amazon's infinite storage. Use any FTP client to transfer files to Amazon S3. Just install InifniteFTP on your computer, then use your favorite FTP client [...]

I make heavy use of the Internet for technical research during projects. Here is a sample dump of the resources I found useful on a recent .NET project.

For PHP applications, nothing is better than the Zend Studio IDE. I have their small business package, which means they call me and ask how I'm doing.The most important features of ZDE are:* Intellisense* Site-wide regex search* Mountable FTP projectsIt also has a built-in mySQL front end, but I prefer the now defunct mySQL CC.

Araxis Merge is a visual merge tool for Windows. It supports plugins for FTP and VSS comparison, and works great through mounted drives on RDC.This is my main tool for deployment. I don't use the 3-way comparison.