Comments on: Do You Debug Your Website?

By: sushi stu

sushi stu — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:27:32 +0000

My god I never realised how buggy our site was, just ran a test for the first time and got 108 errors on one page!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:35:14 +0000

Would agile development practices have spared you? Unit testing (for which RoR is well suited) would have nipped this in the bud, no? One of the hazards of relying on server scripts instead of your program to solve this problem. Can’t your Rails app clear the cache once a day or on any frequency you request?

By: Philip Hofstetter

Philip Hofstetter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:22 +0000

… and one more word to the wise:

don’t work as root.

Sorry. Had to be said.

Philip

By: Rob Searles » Blog Archive » Weekend Reading 2008-12-07

Rob Searles » Blog Archive » Weekend Reading 2008-12-07 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:58:36 +0000

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:50:20 +0000

“Test your website with the same diligence you test your application.”

What? Your website is your application.

By: noah kagan

noah kagan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:12:57 +0000

awesome story! doubling profit year / year and cash-flow in the first month. great success in the words of borat:)

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By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:03:05 +0000

“Funny, while no user thought this was important enough to email about — and would you email if a favorite website went dead for a while during the summer?”

No offense, but a Bingo card generator is probably nobody’s favorite website. It’s one of those utility sites that might be in your top 10 or 20, but it’s not actually that crucial, so if it dies, we say “oh well” and move on.

Of course, once you get sufficiently popular, you can just watch Twitter for your bugs. Unless Twitter is down. :-)

By: Brian R

Brian R — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:44 +0000

Use a tool like UpdatePatrol to keep an eye on your own sites, and you would have known sooner :-)