Logging in to a remote server via secure shell is safe and effective. Using public and private keys eliminates the need to type in a password every time you connect to the remote server. This makes such work both more secure and more convenient.
A term first introduced by Martin Fowler and Eric Evans, a fluent interface is one in which a class is self-referencial wherever possible, resulting in cleaner code. Wherever possible, the Istarel Workshop Application Framework utilizes fluent interfaces.
Absent any special switches used when creating the model object classes, there are two standard methods used as accessors for instance properties: valueForProperty('property_name') and setValueForProperty('property_name', $value).