Bill Watt’s Blog

So, we’re doing a decent sized release tonight and the engineering / QA teams are working away to deploy and test the code. It is odd how much I miss the old days at FAIM when this was a regular event that would consume entire nights. A few of the funny and not so funny stories come to mind:

* Carrie Brice and her perfectly tied hair napping under her desk while we waited for the sites to come back up
* Mozeiko bringing me BBQ from Red Bones

Several Mangelo stories come to mind:
- Mangelo and the mystery illness
- Mangelo and the category change from hell
- Us being out to eat at Chili’s in Burlington pre-deployement phase and the whole “con queso” debacle (it means with cheese… don’t ask)

But the most memorable always had some debacle of epic scale that required a Herculean effort to rescue
- learning the hard way that cnames had to start with a letter (oh yes, one200 is apparently much better than 1200) and I think this was the dreaded Easter release
- Amelia the morning after the big registration release. I think it was the introduction of multiple shipping, common my account, and a few other things but I know it was an issue where Rick had not read multiple product notices or come to any PRD reviews and yet he was demanding that the changes be rolled back because our customers would be pissed. She handled it better than I would have.

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