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Updating a web app without any downtime

It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase? ...

want to upgrade application over the air

i have implemented following code to upgrade application platformrequest("URL TO JAR FILE"); i am checking if the jad file residing on server has more value in the custom field Application-Version than the current one then the platformRequest will get called.. every thing fine but only one problem i have installed my app in memory ca...

Upgrade Wordpress MU: Which files and folders should I keep? Incorrect documentation?

I think there is a mistake in the step-by-step documentation upgrading wpmu 2.6 to 2.7. Step 3 to step 8 seems redundent and partly incorrect. Which files and folders should I keep? What are the correct workflow? ...

Painless way to install a new version of R?

Andrew Gelman recently lamented the lack of an easy upgrade process for R (probably more relevant on Windows that Linux). Does anyone have a good trick for doing the upgrade, from installing the software to copying all the settings/packages over? This suggestion was contained in the comments and is what I've been using recently. First...

MySQL problems after upgrading to Rails 2.3

Yesterday I updated our project from Rails 2.2.2 to Rails 2.3.4 and there seem to be major problems with MySQL: a lot of slow queries (up to 100-200 seconds), very high DB latency, lock timeout errors. I had to rollback to the previous version and now trying to investigate this strange behavior. Maybe someone experienced similar issues? ...

Forcing an upgrade of a file that is modified during its initial installation

I'm working on the upgrade feature for my WiX-based installer. As part of the instalation, we are installing a web.config file and then using a custom action to update the connection strings inside the file. But this causes a problem when we run our upgrade. We would like to have the RemoveExistingProducts scheduled for after InstallF...

Java source upgrade from 1.4.2 to 1.6.0_10 recommended ? (skipping 1.5)

Our desktop-only product at work has been using JDK 1.4.2 until now (also 1.4.2 JRE shipped with product). I am trying to convince the management to let us upgrade to a newer version in order to get the performance, API/features and developer comfort benefits. Since 1.5 has reached EOL transition, I'm I thinking of the upgrade to 1.6.0...

Upgrading Subversion server from 1.5.5 to 1.6.5 - dump/upgrade/reload, exact steps?

Hi all, I'm about to upgrade a SVN server from version 1.5.5 to 1.6.5 - all is fine with the actual upgrade, but I'm a little confused about upgrading the actual repositories. I've read in a few places (here, here), that it's better to dump and reload the repositories rather than using svnadmin upgrade. I assume that I should dump, up...

How can I update my permalink structure in wordpress?

This is the old url of my blog (wp 2.2) http://myblog.com/category-name/post-name ex. http://myblog.com/shoes/i-like-shoes and Im trying to change it to http://myblog.com/post-id/post-name.html ex. http://myblog.com/717/this-is-my-first-post.html Im moving my content from wp2.2 to wp2.8 and i want to change all the categories for the...

Upgrading / Patching .Net Mvc

What is the best way to upgrade / patch a .Net MVC application. Ideally from a single file as most installations of the application will be very basic computer users. So asking them to stop IIS, copy files, run sql scripts etc is not possible. Two possible approaches would be Executable which locates the site on the machine and copi...

RPM technique for handling cumulative updates?

RPM seems to be pretty good at checking dependencies and handling individual file updates, but what is the best practice for handling cumulative updates to, say, a relational database across multiple versions? For instance, say you have product Foo with versions 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, and 1.3.0. In each of these, there were database sche...

What are good arguments to convince management to upgrade to Delphi 2009 / 2010?

We have a medium-to-large size application. One version runs on Delphi 6 and another one on Delphi 2006. One argument would be support for Unicode. We need that to cater to Customers around the world. Other things I have read about are: better IDE (stability, speed), better Help and some cool additions to the language (e.g.: generics...

Concerning Major Changes to a Project

Whats the best way to go about upgrading a project with major design changes...in terms of project files (I guess)? I recently moved my website from ASP.NET to ASP.NET MVC and it was obvious that changes were so major it required a complete rewrite. Now I am preparing to move it to MVC 2, to take advantage of more features of the new f...

Upgrade Python to 2.6 on Mac

I'd like to upgrade the default python installation (2.5.1) supplied with OS X Leopard to the latest version. Please let me know how I can achieve this. Thanks ...

Upgrading vmware server 1.0.7 (debian)

Hey all, I have a physical server hosting 3 production-level VMs using vmware server 1.0.7. What options do i have for safe & painless upgrading? The fact is that what i need more than anything else is online backups, something that 1.0.7 version of vmware server lacks support of. Thanks in advance for all your answers & for your tim...

Strongly-typed views in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 2 no longer function

I had a functioning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Project with strongly typed views. They no longer function after upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 2. The Model property now is an Object instead of the requested type. I have this: <%@ Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<IEnumerable<TechHelp.Core.Models.Ticket>>" %> I g...

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade/compile - Column Alias and Table Alias

One of databases I develop for is being upgraded to SQL 2008 (from SQL 2000). The upgrade advisor is flagging an issue that I don't think is an issue. I was hoping that there is documentation that this is a known issue so that my DB team will just let it pass. The error is saying that in SQL 2008 you cannot use a table alias and a col...

upgrade PHP 5 on Plesk 9.2.1

Hi. I have Parallels Plesk 9.2.1, Debian 4 and 5.2.0-8+etch13 Is it safe to upgrade PHP5 to the latest version and how do I do it - I mean is there something special I have to be aware of? ...

Upgrade PHP from version 5.2 to 5.3

Hello, I've been using PHP version 5.2 and now need to upgrade to version 5.3 (Windows/Apache). I have been using 5.2 for awhile now and have customized many things in php.ini and added some extra extensions. How can I upgrade to version 5.3 without having to reconfigure everything? Or does upgrading require that I customize my PHP i...

How do you use one Ubuntu box as a package repository for another box?

Hi there, Our dev environment has 6 Ubuntu machines, and it'd be nice if we could download the latest version of Ubuntu with one, and then use our local LAN to distribute the new packages between the other computers. This would save us loads of time in downloading the new packages (our connection is REALLY slow). Anyone know how to do t...