Deploy*

The people who don’t like Deploy* usually have one comment, “Why would I use Deploy*? What it does is pretty trivial. I can just make a directory and copy it.” My response is always about the same and it’s basically, “Yes, you can.”

Now with that in mind, why would you use Deploy*? For me it’s a couple reasons:

1. I have never got around the creating a basic structure of a site I like that I end up copying. I should have, but never did. I ended up loosing where I put my code from prior projects and spent time hunting down those plugins.
2. I never had quite the same project. Sometimes I needed files while other I didn’t. I didn’t like having to copy the folder and then add and delete files from it.
3. I hate having to open up Finder in the Mac OS X and looking for a directory (Quicksilver speeds this up a little), but still opening Finder and going through looking for the folder with the different set ups and then looking again for the right one. I like being able to just click a bookmark and having the project instantly.
4. I didn’t like looking up/copy the proper DOCTYPE syntax and I also didn’t like having to link each piece of JavaScript I had. This was just a simple solution.

I guess you could call me lazy, but then again, you are calling the 10,000+ return visitors last week lazy as well.