I am now in the process of planning the deployment of a SharePoint solution into a production environment. I have read about some tools that promise an easy way to automate this process, but nothing that seems to fit my scenario. In the testing phase I have used SharePoint Designer to copy site content between the different development ...
For example: Updating all rows of the customer table because you forgot to add the where clause. What was it like, realizing it and reporting it to your coworkers or customers? And, what's your lessons learned? ...
I have ci, so our staging environment builds itself. Should I have a script that not only builds production but does all the branching for it as well? When you have 1 code base on 2 different urls with skinning, should they be required to build at once? ...
What are the steps and techniques to debug an apparent hang due to a deadlock in a Win32 production process. I heard that WinDbg can be used for this purpose but could you please provide clear hints on how this can be accomplished? ...
From basic things likes page views per second to more advanced stuff like cpu or memory usage. Any ideas? ...
Is it worth designing a system to expect test accounts and products to be present and active in production, or should there be no contamination of production databases with test entities, even if your shipping crew knows not to ship any box addressed to "Test Customer"? I've implemented messaging protocols that have a test="True" attrib...
If I try and access some random string in the URL of my rails app, such as /asdfasdifjasdfkj then I am seeing a rails error message Routing Error No route matches "/asdfasdifjasdfkj" with {:method=>:get} Even though I am in production mode. Clearly I don't want any real users to see this, and would prefer a 404 page. Anyone know what...
I have been curious about this for a while. What exactly is meant by "production-ready" or its variants? Most recently I was looking for information about sqlite and found this thread, where many people suggest sqlite isn't ready for production. I know the difference between development/testing and production; my definition of productio...
There are a lot of different systems for balancing load and achieving redundancy in production servers (Not just web servers) Round-robin DNS Linux Virtual Server Cisco Local Director F5 BigIP Windows NLB etc? If you use one of these (or another) in production, which one? How well does it work for you? Have you evaluated others? ...
Is it safe to run LogParser against our live production IIS log file? Currently, I have been copying it over to another location and then running LogParser 2.2 against the log file. Instead, I would really like to run it against the live data so that I can see changes to it immediately, however, I am a little concerned that it might ca...
I have trouble. One of the users of an application I'm developing is occasionally, but regularly, experiencing an application hang. When this happens, we find an entry with a source of "Application Hang" in the machine's Event Log, with the informative message "Hanging application [my app], version [the right version], hang module hung...
I need to make changes to an in-use production database. Just adding a few columns. I've made the changes to the dev database with migrations. What is the best way to update the production database while preserving the existing data and not disrupting operation too much? It's MYSQL and I will be needing to add data to the columns as ...
We use ASP.NET, C# When making an update to one of our websites, we roll out the entire site rather than updating just the pages or sections that have changed. This scares me. Is this a good idea? Should I roll out only the changes? Should I break my site into smaller projects? What is best practice? ...
I think many developers know that uncomfortable feeling when users tell them that "The application is slow (again)." In a complex web application there can be many possible reasons for a degradation in (perceived) performance: slow database response, bandwidth issues, bad caching etc. There certainly are issues which will never occur in...
[Community wiki] Monitoring a production platform is of the utmost importance for our organization. (and I am not talking about an exe on a single platform, but rather a farm of 2 or 3 thousands servers (PC-Linux-Solaris), for various financial processing purposes) However, the various monitoring tools have so many sound alerts it is no...
Assumption: live/production web app suppresses errors being shown to end-users. Suppose your tech support team wants to see live data but through the eyes of the development-side of the application (maybe you want to see what errors are occurring, or want to see when you've got an issue fixed using an end-user's data). Right now we've ...
Is anyone aware of any gems, tutorials, or solutions enabling a user to sign in to a website at one domain and automatically given access to other partner domains in the same session? I have two rails apps running, let's call them App-A and App-B. App-A has a database associated with it, powering the registration and login at App-A.com...
Are there any good (preferably free) tools out there? Can they give accurate estimates that reflect production results when the app goes live? ...
I'm building a static ASP.NET site (using Masterpages and a few forms) and I'm about to release it onto my production server. I know about changing <compilation debug="true"> to false, but I'm wondering what other things I can do to obtain the highest speed possible. There is no data access in the site, it's all static content. Does an...
Hi Gang, Up until this point in my career, I have usually modified my HOSTS file as the need to test a website before its DNS propagation or website launch occurred. This has worked well on in-house projects, but I'm finding the approach completely impractical when it comes to previewing my clients' websites to them before the sites go...