Douglas
> While I will agree with the point about lazynes, I'll make two remarks
> to start. Most developers tend to be lazy at somethings, eh? :)
> Secondly, since when is Win XP a production level environment or an
> "ultimate deployment framework"? Many folks develop on desktops using
> only the built in server. Testing, QA, integration, etc are certainly
> performed later in the "ultimate deployment framework" setup.
Oh, and I'm among the laziest, I assure you. But I am anal about some things,
and how I run a dev team and their setup is one of them.
Where I am, we tend to develop on what we inaccurately term "developer
workstations" - workstation-grade hardware running Win2K or 2K3 (occasionally
SuSE) and the ACME stack. So, they're not really workstations in that sense.
But they *do* closely match our deployment platform. My ACME Guide suggests
WinXP as most people are more likely to be comfortable running it as a
day-to-day OS. We also run a shared development Oracle DB server, as our
deployment DB is Oracle 10.
After initial development, all code from the team is checked out to an
"integration" server kept in a nearby rack. Here's where we ensure that all the
code we've developed runs happily together. After that, a test build is
deployed to a tech-testing server and put though much pain by our very good test
team. After they okay it, it's then deployed to yet another server for testing
by the business owner of the app to ensure we developed what they were after.
Last, it's run through a test server in place at our host to make sure no
environmental issues have been missed. After this final check, it's signed off
for release to prod. Like I said, anal.
All this will eventually make The ACME Guide as part of a chapter on best
practices.
> Now, Jennifer, I have seen posts on cf-talk about installing on win xp
> and having issues. I would try scouring the cf-talk archives at
> houseoffusion.com and reading through the tech docs at macromedia.com.
> I don't use Win XP yet, so can't really say more. I seem to recall
> people having issues with AV and firewall setups perhaps mucking with
> something. In fact I never installed CFMX stand alone, prefering the
> mulitserver version...makes it sweet to dev CF6, CF7, Flex, or JSP
> apps all on JRun.
Frankly, multiserver is the way to go. So much more flexibility.
Steve
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