Tonight I successfully completed the first three-tier deployment of vees.net. Thanks to everybody who helped me beta test.

When I got home today I felt like making a small change to the front page of my site and adding a "net worth ticker" to my site to show the percentage trend of my calculated net worth over a trend period of 24 hours, 7, 30, and 365 days.

Unfortunately I had promised myself a few weeks ago that I wouldn't touch the production version of my site without first developing it through the other two tiers and finishing the development of the new gallery site. With that, I had locked myself out of coding random things just for fun.

Instead I looked around and figured out all the things I needed to do to wipe away the old vees.net code and replace it with one of the trimmed and version-controlled revisions of the development code without breaking anything. I found all the spots where things didn't work quite right after being shuffled around and loaded into source control, patched that up and deployed the site to the staging server to check that all my configuration options were correct.

The staging push did reveal a couple of small static URL lines I had left in by accident, and a quick update to development side and another push and I placed the site out for a half dozen friends to check for errors. Once enough had played around and everything appeared to be working, I erased the old production site and replaced it with revision 16 of my development version as an svn export.

After that was all finished, I went ahead and coded the little ticker app on the development pages to evaluate for a week or so before I push it out with the next iteration.

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