Keeping track of project files in a large codebase
Insight: symlinks should really be abused!
Let’s say you’re in the same position as me, working within a large codebase that requires focus over multiple folders* even for working with just one project. Perhaps you need to add logic, content, conditions, markup and css. These areas should all be separated, so naturally you’ll be clicking/cd-ing a lot… you see where this is going, right?
Make a temporary, meaningless folder named YourProject2010 and start pulling symlinks into it so you’ll never have to leave home again :) That would mean something like this: