My question is, how do I version control the production environment in a good way? This is our current environment: (Internal server) Development - Version controlled source code (Customer server) Acceptance test environment (Customer server) Staging environment (Customer server) Production environment When we release new functional...
There are a couple of questions on Stackoverflow asking whether x (Ruby / Drupal) technology is 'enterprise ready'. I would like to ask how is 'enterprise ready' defined. Has anyone created their own checklist? Does anyone have a benchmark that they test against? ...
I've written a plugin for a game that connects to a PHP page and sends it information from the game. The PHP page takes this information, connects to a SQL Server 2005 instance, then inserts the information given into a variety of tables. I am using Apache (WampServer) to host the PHP page and SQL Server 2005 Express for hosting the da...
I have several shell scripts, perl and java based processes running on a bunch of unix machines. I am looking for a dashboard like utility that can allow me to start, stop and monitor all these processes. right now, I have to do many of these jobs manually (e.g. each script sends me an email notification in the end indicating that it h...
It seems that the company that I work for is always struggling with our customers’ server environments. Specifically, we almost always encounter problems with testing servers and production servers, and the fact that they always seem to be configured differently. When we test the applications that we develop, the testing servers behave ...
I have a website written in PHP under source control (SVN). I would like to move at once all my files from the website directory to production server. The problem is that in this folder there are folders of SVN (.svn). The second problem is that i do not want to put on the server only files under source control, but also other in this f...
Does anyone know of a good tool that allows you to tail and search through log files that are spread across a cluster of machines. We have multiple web servers and app servers and digging through the logs on each server one by one is a pain. ...
I know that DLR will be released together with C# 4.0, but I don't know when that will happen. In the meantime if somebody wants to use DLR in a production environment (nothing hardware-real-time-system), should he/she consider postponing it until C# 4.0 comes out? What I'm asking: is the existing version 0.9 supported by Microsoft? ...
I need to design a web service layer on top of an existing application. Really, I'm most interested in WS-Security and JMS support, possibly JTA. What is the best server to use for this? Would it be a wise decision to go with lightweight Tomcat (which I'm experienced with), or would I be better off with a server that implements the ...
Quick summary: I have a Rails app that is a personal checklist / to-do list. Basically, you can log in and manage your to-do list. My Question: When a user creates a new account, I want to populate their checklist with 20-30 default to-do items. I know I could say: wash_the_car = ChecklistItem.new wash_the_car.name = 'Wash and wax the ...
Hi I'm new to SVN and would like to know a couple of things or if someone can point me in the right direction either advice or some sites to read. I have subversion and tortoise installed and have subversion installed correctly but I would like to know how I can work on files in my htdocs folder from my machine and then commit the files...
Hello everyone! I am currently learning Erlang Can SO users give interesting examples of any of their Erlang application deployments? I want to gain some insight into common Erlang uses past telecomms, and any problems or unexpected benefits Erlang brought during development/deployment. I hope this will give some broader context and ...
I'm considering using sqlite as a production database for a site that would receive perhaps 20 simultaneous users but with the potential for a peak that could be many multiples of that (since the site would be accessible on the open internet and there's always a possibility that someone will post a link somewhere that could drive many pe...
Because we don't have a good staging environment we often have to debug issues on our production systems. We have web, application, and database servers. What kind of safeguards do you use to avoid accidentally making unintended changes to your production environment when doing this? EDIT: The application is a very complex B2B verti...
Our company is nearing its "go live" date (and its getting a QA department date), and I'm trying to define the right operational processes to support this. A big consideration of mine is how to avoid the deployment/configuration hell that has inevitably occurred. Have any of you found a good solution for handing off builds to the non-p...
When I use: System.Environment.Version The result is "2.0.50727.3053" I know that 3.5 is compatible and in IIS is identified as 2.0, blah blah... I would like to know the exact .net version installed and if another resources are installed, like ASP.NET MVC, etc. The problem is that the website is installed in a shared hosting, so I...
Hello folks, I am a RoR developer, but I am presently working with CakePHP for a project where I cannot tweak the server. In my Rails production server, Passenger is setup to automatically use the "Production" environment, overriding the local app setup. I would like to setup my cakephp app to do the same thing. How do you usually accomp...
With Perl, what is an easy way to handle different development versus production libs paths? I want to use my local box path for testing, but when I launch I want it to automatically point to the production lib path. ...
I maintain an old application written in VB6. In client's environment it raises runtime errors which I can't reproduce under debugger. Is there any way to get the stacktrace or location of error? I mean, without putting trace statements all over the code like here or adding error handlers for logging to every procedure like here. It se...
We have an application written in C# .NET that is currently used in production environments. Obviously the release build is used. Unfortunately sometimes the application misbehaves under certain conditions and we can't figure out why. We are unable to reproduce the issue in house. Yes, more tracing would help, but often it is after the ...