If you answer someone's question well, and they basically nick your answer adapt it slightly, and post their own answer... am I right to be slightly pissed off?
It really isn't a big problem. But this guy really pissed me off... I originally answered him in 5 minutes, then he asks for more help, so I spend an hour writing the perfect solution, and then he says he's rejecting the answer and using his own one which is almost exactly the same (and adopts the original answer).
Am sure I shouldn't care this much. :)
Do I downvote his question or something? What are the options?
By the way, this room is mostly general chit chat and network-wide discussion, if you want a more programming-focused room you should try chat.stackoverflow.com
We don't get hopping in here for another hour or so. Javascript on chat.SO is where there's action on a regular basis. And we do appreciate the intent of hanging out here in appreciation, but it's not necessary necessarily.
@RebeccaChernoff I don't think that there's a great demand for it, since there's likely not that many people who spend equally large amount of time on more than one chat site.
@TimStone I suppose I could've gone to the linked WA question huh? That would've been too easy. Also, helps to have questions repeated and then answered on MSO so people quit asking them ;)
@Mana er... I think we've gotten off on the wrong foot. Hi, my name's drach and I am of no consequence. Nice to meetcha
@Gallen Downright suspicious in fact. "Gallen, why are you playing WoW instead of working?" "Well, mysteriously our hosting provider got hit with a DDOS attack at the exact moment I finished installing the game. It's weird"
I'm not sure. I mean, it does seem like there are a number of steps, and they involve a lot on your part, but at the same time I'm not sure how you'd streamline the process. What sort of site-specific changes are you making, and are you making the same ones each time for a particular site?
@TimStone so like connection string config settings changes (which I've finally gotten everyone to understand that those should be in a separate file that can be tracked independently and etc) or app_settings (still in web.config) etc. No per-file-per-site changes, those are mostly eradicated (except that the boss has decided softcoding is a good idea :blech: )
Yeah, so we don't ... yet. :( :( :( It's on my list of things to do on a free saturday (or when we get another intern and I can turn him loose on some internal stuff) to put together a database replete with web-UI so we can update those things and maintain them etc... Mostly from a spreadsheet right now, mixed with prior knowledge.
What I want to do is add a table or two to aspnetdb for site-specific (and these may already exist, haven't cared to look) settings and then gen a set of scripts that can update those to be current and include sane defaults where not present so we can do away with the app_settings and include just the one connection string per site.
and then we just provide a page in our management tool that lets us modify those settings and put some api hooks in to update those values as necessary in a singleton class
To my way of understanding that would be more performant anyways
but I'm going to add that when I add the sitemap-from-SQL option later (which is built but waiting on implementation details, like if the boss wants it in the first place)
@TylerChacha I know, I love listening to what everyone else talks about
@drachenstern Ah, OK. Hm...since originally I was thinking that you could have versioned copies of these site-specific configurations that could be automatically merged when you push from the dev repository to the build repository. Then you could theoretically automate the build step too, since it wouldn't require intervention on your part.
@TylerChacha learning lots of things from "Gaming" chat room, learning lots of things from "Tavern" chat room :p ... the idea that there are that many people just bristling with information on Cooking chat ready to share it at a moment's notice ... those jump to my mind
@drachenstern Well, I guess I mostly just mean in the sense of cloning to the build directory. But there's probably a more formal procedure as well (I'm still learning how it all is meant to work, so that I can replace Subversion for our work processes).
@TimStone so then can I issue a command like hg -clone -from http://whatever/dev -to http://whatever/build? that would be sweet. I didn't think hg had that functionality
Additionally, we don't really use MSBuild to automate anything, I should probably take time to learn how to do that, figure I'll do it after I start logging our config settings per site to a db
