Journal blinder's Journal: The Launch 14
well, thankfully the client opted for a bit less of an event so that the launch went more quietly than we were originally lead to believe. this is actually a good thing.
i've been working 16 hour days for the last 3 weeks and put in nearly 60 hours during the holiday week. i'm ready for this to be done.
but, we launched today @ 4pm. so mitt romney filed his papers today and the exploratory part of the campaign begins, the site went live and boy did things get interesting.
it was an hour of total insanity. one of the web servers was mis-configured. i figured it out at the same time i was regenerating rsa keys because the ssl certificates were completely messed up.
the entire company was a buzz with the launch. we have much larger clients than this, but this one was special. since we had nothing to migrate and this was a completely new entity we literally flipped the switch to make the site go live, and it got hammered.
i am amazed, right now i'm watching the numbers grow.
the site though is behaving wonderfully, the architecture is standing up perfectly and things are operating as it should (after a few hours of frantic bug fixes due to insufficient uat, but in defense of the client, there just wasn't time for it at, not even a little).
i won't like to it, but you can probably guess the url if you wanted to see it. well, i got my dinner burning. hopefully tomorrow i'll get home before 8pm. these 12-16 hour days have gotten old and fast.
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Hope things get back to normal soon for you. I know what the 60 hour week can do to a person.
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Mad'ja look
A Mormon President, eh? (Score:2)
I hope they paid you well. Lead balloons and pregnant pole vaulters come to mind. I think too many people in this country (including much of his party's evangelical non-LDS Protestant base) would be worried about the influence the LDS church would exert on him. A shame, really. I think he'd make a decent president. Better than the buttheads who have occupied the office for much of my adult life, anyway.
Like Kennedy and the Catholic Church, I think it's a pretty baseless worry. Mormons, though genera
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*scratches him off the list*
Looks like these poor saps [freerepublic.com] are going to have to have to choose between baby-killing gay-loving Giuliani and John "George W. Bush's bitch" McCain, and they're not going to like having to make that choice.
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So's Harry Reid, and I don't see the Donks (who tend to be much more hostile toward religion than most people) up in arms over that. Religion is a non-issue...or did you learn nothing from JFK getting elected in 1960?
McCain is a non-starter. The so-called "campaign finance reform" law with his name on it disqualifies him, as far as I'm concerned. That leaves Romney, Giuliani, and whoever else pops up in the next year or so. Just as Ed Koch was willing to put social issues aside i
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Calm down, this isn't a tit-for-tat thing, and besides, he's not running for president, and religion don't mean squat below that level. As for Romney, this is America, you guys aren't electing a Mormon anytime this century, and you know it, so stop trying to blow smoke up my ass. Also, Ke
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I think it's a huge worry. But then again, I think any potential president with an affiliation to an organised church is unsuitable for the job. Sadly, I don't see you voting in an atheist any time soon :-(
I'm sure the site design is great, BUT... (Score:2)
I got a look at the content, and I dislike the man already. The last thing this country needs is another bozo elected on "social conservative" credentials and little else. If they all look like that (and McCain's record on illegal immigration is a huge negative for him) I'll be hoping the Repubs can't recover from GWB in time for the next election.
Dammit, I was hoping for two decent candidates this time around. I'd prefer a real choice to a forced one.
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Well, that does it. (Score:2)
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we're talking here about 16 hour workdays and why this project took such a toll on our home life. I won't link to the site either, not after what it did to my christmas season.
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