In many cases, especially in web development, you are saving your work to a web server. Of course, if you want to make a small fix to your code, it involves using an FTP client to upload the code. It might seem like a lot of work for just a small fix. So what do you do?

The solution is to use software that treats a remote connection as a directory on a computer.

Windows

For Windows, there is Novell Netdrive. It is no longer in active development and can be downloaded for free. Webdrive, a similar application that is in active development, costs money and has a few minor features that Netdrive does not have.

Linux

Linux has a variety of ways to get this done. If you use KDE, you don’t have to download anything as KDE already has the ability to treat a remote connection like a directory through the power of KIO.

If you don’t like that solution, you can look through a variety of FUSE ( FIlesystem in USErspace ) modules that connect to the server. There are FUSE modules for FTP, Webdav, or SSH file transfer.

Other Operating Systems

FUSE has been ported to a variety of operating systems besides Linux. The most current list of operating systems that FUSE supports is here. At the time of writing, it is unsure whether or not there is a Windows port to FUSE.