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HEH 19: Present-day Screwups and Misspent Youth

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A site gets destroyed (temporarily), and how we all test our sites and prepare for the worst. We also talk about our favorite childhood games.

Ken destroys his Iowa Library site

  • Testing with the new google tester
  • Used a plugin for compression (w3 total cache plugin)
  • Got all 100’s (because an error 500 page loads REALLY quickly)

    • Iowa Library overwrote a site

    • Overwrote /maps with /maps (an actual site)

      • Arizona launched a new primary website

      • The server was not configured correctly for Drupal and failed under normal traffic.

        • Dave did load testing

        • Learned that the internet connection was not good enough and the load balance was failing on that.

          • Dave created a site for site administrator and not the actual users of the site

          • Failed badly and had to rewrite – was a learning experience

            • UALR set up 250+ WordPress (stand-alone) installations on a single server

            • The server still exists and they have been working on migrating into a single wordpress network

              • What do we want to be when we grow up?

              • Scott – Artist, Movie Director
              • Daniel – Hacker, Actor, a lot of things
              • Dave – Was outside a lot and wanted to be a park ranger (then got a Tandy and never left the house again)
              • Ken played games on ancient calculators (http://sm.pcmag.com/pcmag_in/photo/h/hewlett-pa/hewlett-packard-hp-65-1974_js34.jpg)
                • He LOVED the HP 15C!!!!!!

                Play: Wizardry on the Apple II

                Read: Ready Player One (movie coming out soon)

                Favorite Childhood Games:

                • Dan: Pokemon (gameboy)
                • Dave: Thexter
                • Daniel: Myst
                • Scott: Lode Runner
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