Developing on a public/private server

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
I am working with a partner from these forums on a project - here's what we did.

I setup an SVN server on my computer, where we commit our changes to the application. Each night a script runs that updates my development environment to the latest version found in the repository. My development environment just also happens to be the root of my web server, therefore we have a live version, nightly, that we can test.