> have you ever fallen in horse shit, wiped it off and made a good thing > out of it?
I think every developer and/or sysadmin who has been around long enough, myself included, has had that "oh **** me" moment where they wish their life would just end. The key is to not panic, step up, fix the problems, learn from the experience, and move forward. I've seen database queries accidentally leave out the "where" clause and update all the records in a database; on a live system; where the latest backup was pushing a month old (ACK!). I've seen a RAID 5 array fail on a development server; where the backups were being stored on another drive; which was in another partition on the same array (DOH!). I've seen a minor processor driver upgrade in Windows (non-SMP to SMP after adding a second proc) go wrong and hose an entire server; which was the only domain controller; for a network of web servers; and take the entire network down for a day (OMG!). One of the above was my own mistake and it was not a fun time to be in the business. I learned from the experience and vowed never to let it happen again. In this situation it sounds like a cascade failure where there were some major issues with the code, issues with the testing, and issues with the planning for the roll-out (always have a plan to roll back in case things go awry), so you shouldn't put all the blame on yourself unless you were the only one with hands on it. It sounds like there's plenty to go around in this scenario. -Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334447 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
