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INAUGERAL POST let the fun begin! So, right now I am working on my Visio model of what will be the environment for my newest project. Let’s call it “Project Awesome.” Anyway, so, I’m working with things I am familiar with. Dev to Staging to Prod, using Nant for builds and SVN for source control. These are all things I know, however, I haven’t ever implemented them myself,. The thing I am most scared about is Nant, I remember a much more experienced developer than I setting it up the last time I worked with it and he ran into some road blocks. However, that’s part of the adventure, no? I have finished downloading all the exe and iso ‘s so heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go.

Visio is an awesome tool. Haven’t worked with this before and it makes life so easy. As with any programmer worth his salt I hate doing documentation (I’m just making that up, but it is now a fact. Do you like it? So there. ) This whole WYSWYG thing is awesome. Drag -> drop -> done. Rockstar.

We put together a vpc that held the development environment (in project Awesome “we” refers to me and a project manager). Apparently the company we are doing this for only had the app on one server, no backups. Bitchin. So, the PM decided that step one was putting a vpc together so we could deploy it on any PC. I thought this was redundant, and wanted to just put together production (or staging) for that matter and copy the image. Set up backups and builds and the like. However, I was veto’d. I would have fought more if I understood the app better. Down the road I wont back down so easily.

This has been an adventure, there are multiple third party tool involved and the structure is a bit foreign to me. Far as I can tell there is a webservice that is internal to the app on the local machine. After looking into this I was told this is for an external interface, but I don’t think there is one. Once I sit with it for a while longer I’m sure I will understand more. The good thing about it is if I don’t like how it’s being done I can change it.