Sometimes I’m lucky…
Published 10.25.2005 by ~mattg
As any developer knows, sometimes you are unlucky.. You work for a while, forget to save, and all of a sudden, *poof*, your work is gone. Sometimes it’s a mix of laziness and arrogance which inhibits the proper testing on a particular feature.
In my case, it was a client’s haste in wanting the development features to go live that caused an issue. There were some aspects of the application that had not been fully tested, but wanting to please the client we released anyway. As I was working on new features, she had some pretty major bugs (we’ll call them showstoppers) that needed fixed asap.
Thankfully, I had versioned the code I deployed to the live site before continuing the other feature development. I was able to rollback to the live site, make the changes, build, and then continue on with the feature without losing my changes. For the casual programmer, versioning and source control may not be necessary. But when your applications come with clients and deadlines, versioning is a must.
Filed under .NET Development, Web Development
