What would you guys recommend as good references for setting up a testing server (xampp on xp pro), a staging server and a production server while also having svn? I'm a noob to "hardcore" development but want to start off on the right foot and set up my environments like the pros do. I have several projects coming up and want to take tw...
Hypothetically, tets say someone tells you to to expect X (like 100,000 or something) number of unique visitors per day as a result of a successful marketing campaing. How does that translate to peak requests/second? Peak simultaneous requests? Obviously this depends on many factors, such as typical number of pages requested per user...
Hi, I creaed one dnn applicaiton, and the source is moved to production and also same as the database is also moved to production server, but i am getting the dotnetnuke error. I think there is a database not inserted correctly. Can you help me how to transfer the database from local to production.. ...
All of our applications have Debug="False" in the web.config and Release DLL's. We have a number of Applications that use ScriptManagers now for .net Ajax implementations. The ScriptManager has a ScriptMode that is set for Release and Debug modes. The default for this is Auto and when it is set to Auto it's value is set based on the Dep...
I'm running a couple of sites and are thinking about moving over to using Nginx instead of Apache and as such I need to move to FCGI where the preferred choice right now seem to be PHP-FPM. I'm simply wondering about what version of PHP to use. My current sites (using Apache and mod_php i.e. plain vanilla LAMP installation) is using 5.2...
Do you use Glassfish 2 or v3 in a production environment? Do you find it robust? Have you ever been able to find a complete set of documentation? What do you do when you find that Glassfish ignores J2EE standards, like class and anotation scanning? ...
I deployed my Rails app and am getting 500 Errors on all pages. My production.log isn't showing anything (which is a problem), but I did a 'script/console production' and tried to run a simple query (User.find :first) and it throws this: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) My database.yml file definitely has...
Hi everyone, Does anyone know any good articles on how to deploy Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications to a production environment? What are the requirements? Should I use Tomcat or Jetty with or without Apache? My GWT app leverages GWT-RPC requiring it to be hosted on a JVM stack. My current experience with deployment to production is...
I'm looking for a safe method of triggering DEBUG for INTERNAL_IPS requests on a django production server without requiring the alteration of a settings.py file. Mainly to get the toolbar going for some designers to check issues on live data/media, but without relying on them to reset the settings once they have finished. Similar to thi...
I am working on an API that is triggered using a custom Job scheduler. The API is in the form of .NET dll. Currently it contains 10-15 methods. Most of the methods are currently in testing phase. The client wants to push out a single method to the production. Yes, I mean if there are 10 methods in a DLL the client wants to push a single ...
Question: How to make code behave differently when running locally vs. in QA vs. in production? Example: In an ASP.NET MVC application I have a controller set up to deliver e-mail notifications. When running locally on a development machine I want the e-mails delivered to the developer, when in QA I don't want any e-mail notifications ...
I'm really confused by some errors I'm getting as I'm trying to put an App into production. Everything works fine on the development machine, but I can't syncdb or enter the Django shell on the Production server. I'm getting an error when forum.models.py is attempts to import forum.managers.py because the models aren't in the namespace y...
We are doing some architecture refactoring. We are a SaaS company so all deploys are to our own self managed servers. Current model packs all of our binaries along with 3rd party libraries we use into ears, wars, tars, etc. These packages include all of the libraries they depend on. When they are deployed they are manually exploded (un...
Well, i have a shared host and i have'nt ssh access. The problem is the server structure and symfony estructure... Server has this estructure error/ log/ ... web/ and in web dir we can load web aplication... symnfony structure is.. app/ .. web/ well the problem is that with my domain, if i try to access i have to put www.domainname....
Is it good idea to use genetic algorithm in production? If you are using it: In what case? What pros for selecting subj? Can you easily add changes to algorithm? ...
Imagine that we have a sophisticated asp.net solution: MSSQL + ASP.NET MVC + ASP.NET Web Forms + WCF Service hosted in IIS. Once a week the solution must be deployed to a single production server transparently for the users. The deployment can include changes in database scheme, minor IIS reconfiguration, replacement of files. The deplo...
We've never gotten this app to run in production. The application runs just fine in dev. I've made sure all rake tasks are up to date and acts_as_authentic is set for the user and everything else that everyone has posted on all the forums. The server has been bounced multiple times. This error comes up every single time on all URLs. ...
Hey, I'm using Rails 2.3.5 and using rufus scheduler to send periodic emails. This works fine in development mode, but surprise surprise production mode has borked something. I've set the same actionmailer settings in both development and production files. Is there something I am missing? ...
I'm trying to create a staging branch on Heroku, but there's something I don't quite get. Assuming I've already created a heroku app and setup the remote to point to staging-remote, If I do: git checkout -b staging staging-remote/master I get a local branch called 'staging' which tracks staging-remote/master - or that's what I thoug...
If you are developing a commercial desktop application, what's your release process? Sample process: Develop it: Patch bugs, add features, etc. Feature Freeze (do not fix, add anything unless it's absolutely required) Test it If everything is OK release it, if it's not fix it, test it, release it I think the most crucial question is...