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- cptnspoon, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5Good article. I've used and integrated CKFinder into projects before and can't recommend it enough.
- Turkman182, on 05/20/2009, -1/+6Anything that makes my life easier is all right by me.
- fabio1, on 05/21/2009, -1/+5i can´t tell if you´re being sarcastic or not. these tools are supposed to be used by endusers, not sysadmins.
- raustin, on 05/20/2009, -2/+5groovy list; i may be trying 1 or 2 of those soon...
- shinkou, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Cool! Now we have an option of not providing users any FTP/SSH/SFTP connections.
- fabio1, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2After a lot of searching around, I installed Relay (it´s listed here) and made it available for a few users where I work.
So far it has been well received by the users. Not all endusers know how to access ftp servers, and some files are too large to be sent over email, so this is where this kind of app has been useful. - annjay, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3I think these are wonderful and can use professionally as well. You guys really help us and save our lots of time that we would have to spend in finding these stuffs. Keep it up!
- NerdyDillinger, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1This file managers really come in handy with clients who shouldn't have to bother with FTPing files into folders
- tama00, on 05/21/2009, -3/+4wow you wouldn't think in the year 2009 you would see 'loading' when listing a directory from a remote server.
Sure it's great technology and looks pretty but the raw functionality hasn't changed much and the speed is just getting slower. Back in the days on my 486 i could list files on a remote server in a blink of an eye. In 2009 with our quad cores and super broadband, i can do it in style yet it takes a few seconds. - JonLatane, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1Given that the article mentions using it in "web projects," I believe these products are targeted at software developers. In software development, the best way to be efficient is to use the mouse as little as possible (navigating with it is much slower than touch-typing). All of these tools require *way* more clicking around just to navigate the filesystem than Emacs or any modern shell. (Also, with a shell, you can install git and handle version control locally on the web server or a remote repository, all transparently, something *none* of these tools seem to allow, and essential for projects of any significant size.)
I fail to see how these Web tools, neat as they may be, let a developer be more efficient given all this. And developers *are* the endusers. - mattearle, on 05/21/2009, -1/+2They need to proofread their introduction. "best and free file manager currently in circulation" and "if you know other interesting resources about this topic please leave a comment!".
But, neat article and useful. - Nimec, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1I've tried installing Ajaxplorer for the past hour with no luck. It's giving me some error about the locale not being set and won't seem to create the inital admin account needed to login. Their website forums and install FAQ's aren't any help either.
Disappointing, I was really looking forward to checking it out. - thejimgaudet, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1This is the secret for me because I was searching for this just 2 days ago...
- JonLatane, on 05/20/2009, -4/+4OpenSSH + Emacs + IPython (for quickly renaming files repetitively). You get support for every language under the sun, the dependencies are smaller (your web server can even be down), and it's faster and just as secure as any of these solutions could hope to be using HTTPS. Plus, with scp your interface for moving files to and from the remote system is the same as that for moving files around locally. Plus, with RSA fingerprints, you don't even have to enter a password to login and get stuff done.
Why use something less robust? - Garchaia, on 05/22/2009, -0/+0very helpful :)
- hbyrne, on 05/20/2009, -3/+3Good set of suggestions, with sample images for reference.
- numberneal, on 05/20/2009, -3/+2great management tools
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