from my work as a developer
Posts tagged deployment
reanimation
Dec 22nd
Last time I had been writing about merging branch to trunk just before deployment to production. Business side wasn’t happy about that, so we had to clean up the mess 
It’s very weird how merge can replace whole files with older versions – by older I mean that were formatted on branch – no other changes. In such case it’s very hard to find what was changed. The only hope is in Subversion’s history. It’s the only place where you can find how it was before, though if you have history 
Anyway, the problem was solved quite fast and we were able to deploy a new version to test environment and business were able to test it also. The last step was to prepare deployment to production and hope that everything will go smoothly – we will see next day morning!
I also discovered superb future in IntelliJ IDEA – Productivity Guide – you can open it with ALT + H + P
BTW the new version of IDEA was release few days ago – Ulimate 9 – I already have it! Hurraaa!
PS. You can be surprised but I’m working remotely from my new home
operation has gone but the patient died
Dec 18th
Yap, that how it was with our project deployment to production. Everything went smoothly but application is not running, even worse – running without problem but it’ giving wrong results
I had to quickly investigate the roots of evil and I found them quick – once again it was a merge – CVS merge to be precise. There was a branch to integrate with other project and few days before deployment everything was merged down to main. Nobody was testing it after all, just we went ahead to production 
The rest is just a history…
Have nice Christmas! I’m taking long vacation so see you in New Year!
