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Last post Author Topic: Big News: New DonationCoder Server  (Read 37161 times)

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2018, 11:14 PM »
Would folks be interested in a long rambling post about the migration of the dc server(s), the move to content management systems, and all of the options I considered and why each decision was made?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2018, 11:37 PM by mouser »

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #26 on: February 06, 2018, 12:46 AM »
Well, no, not a "long rambling post", which could mean a chunk of your otherwise productive time, but a brief summary report that simply covered:
  • Objectives.
  • Implementation Plan.
  • Resources required.
  • Actual Implementation Steps, and variations to plan - in timeline order (or order of occurrence).
  • Outcomes.

 - could be interesting, but only if the report could also be useful to yourself as a sort of diary note.
In fact, if you already had diary notes about the implementation, then you could construct the summary report from those notes. This is something I often do for myself, so that I can go back and review something I did in the past. My notes nowadays are invariably documented very nicely in MS OneNote, and I can put them up in a public share, rather than send them out as a file or put them up as a document on a website. Blogging the summary in a blog or a forum post would be a relatively tedious exercise - the medium being very limited by comparison to a document, which latter is more suited to being indexed, well-structured with a self-contained TOC, diagrams, etc. and thus more easily read as a report.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2018, 12:52 AM by IainB »

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2018, 01:22 AM »
+1

and:
the options I considered and why each decision was made?

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #28 on: February 06, 2018, 08:00 AM »
Another yes

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #29 on: February 06, 2018, 08:08 AM »
No but I'm prepared to be bored for the sake of DC  ;D

And, again, thanks for all the work you put into it.

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2018, 10:57 PM »
I am on page 12 of the essay about the server move.. Will post it this weekend.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2018, 01:35 AM by mouser »

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #31 on: February 23, 2018, 02:48 PM »
I am on page 12 of the essay about the server move.. Will post it this weekend.

May we assume you already have a publisher lined up?   :P

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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2018, 03:36 PM »
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Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2018, 08:49 AM »
Essay has been done for a while, just waiting to publish it to coincide with the newsletter and fundraiser.