Phew, glad that's over

I've just spent a week detouring through our products upgrading them all to be in line with our best practice and stopping the odd one or two from resetting the permissions of a site when they're reinstalled

It's funny, but every so often I just feel like I can't go on. You muddle along with the same old products you've been using for a while because they by and large work, and you base your new products on the old ones because, by and large, the old ones work.

And then you notice one more snag and suddenly you just can't put up with muddling through any more, adjusting code here and fixing things there. Then it's time for FIX and UPGRADE.

I've been working on a rating product to allow visitors to clients sites to rate items in a number of categories and leave comments. There's more to it than that, but you get the idea. Anyway, as I've been working away at it, bits of code I was reusing from elsewhere started getting on my nerves, and then a new site of ours started having minor administrative problems with permissions. I tried to ignore it, but in the end I had to do something.

And when I looked, I found that all the problems were coming down to the same sorts of things, so there was no putting it off any more. I had to upgrade the older products before I could safely work on my rater.

And now, four days later, it's finally all done. All the code has been upoloaded to the test server and tested, and redone and retested and redone and retested and... so on until, hey, it doesn't break anything any more.

Then it was uploaded to the development server and tested with the development versions of our existing sites. And redone and retested and on and on... THEN it was time to put the whole lot on to the live server and push the button. Plus a whole load more testing of course.

Why would you care? I don't know really, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Damn. I've just noticed I've done a whole blog entry with a single keyword, and what's the point of a blog entry if it doesn't have a single keyword to up the SEO and attract you here from Google or Yahoo, or MSN or Ask Jeeves. See? That's better already. Now, if I can just work Zope and Plone and content management and ecommerce in, I'll have done a good thing. Job done I reckon.