While a lot of people are rewriting entire sites, in our industry, incremental releases are much easier to handle. One succesful method has been to create small stand-alone website that are simply hosted in a directory of the existing website. For example, if you have a directory called “Purchasing”, where you have a PO list, […]

A major issue databases face is trying to make large amount of combined data available to users while not locking records. A properly normalized database can sometimes make this even more difficult, if the dataset requested is a combination of many tables. If the request is slow, you can face record-locking issues as well as […]

For smaller businesses, responsible deployment is difficult. Generally it is a series of local tests, a test on a remote server and then locally building it and pushing it to another server via sFTP or some other method. People often use “Continuous Integration” in their check-ins to a development branch, where it runs the site […]