We haven't got a Netcommunity test environment - I do all development on my workstation PC, and then transfer all the files over to the live server to see if they work. Which is pretty stupid, as I have no idea whether anything works until I publish it to the live server - coding blind, in effect.
Most of the time it's ok, mainly because I'm not doing anything particularly complicated, but occasionally I really get it wrong and knock out the whole site - like the other day, when I managed to trigger a stack overflow and we had to restart the web server. Oops.
Thankfully, we are going to be getting a test environment in the near future, which will mean I'll be able to do a lot more without having to worry about wrecking anything. I can't believe we didn't have one anyway.
Does anyone have a test environment themselves?
I'm going to document how I get on with setting ours up and so on, on the offchance that anyone is interested / is trying to do it themselves.
Bonza.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
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