Notice : GFY Maintenance Coming Up This Weekend!
 

Time for some major software updates. These will be taking place very late night/very early morning to reduce the impact and downtime. Preliminary schedule as follows.

Saturday morning 2am to 3am PACIFIC TIME
Extra full database backup, probable downtime should be less than 1 hour, more like 30 minutes maximum.

Sunday morning 2am to 3am PACIFIC TIME
Secondary Extra database backup, and full codebase backup, probable downtime should be less than 1 hour, more like 30 minutes maximum.

Monday morning 1am to 3am PACIFIC TIME
System upgrade time, configuration, fine tuning. I'm already testing everything on one of my development servers, but there's a ton of steps involved in this. My printed checklist for this process is currently at 84 pages, which may grow even more before time for the live upgrade. :Oh crap

I'm testing the hell out of everything to eliminate any surprises, so it should all go smoothly. I'll post any further information in this thread as it comes up.

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Sweet..please ban the outsourced bots and the :1orglaugh :1orglaugh posts

There are some SWEET new bot-control features in the upgrades. :)

Good deal, TD! Thanks for the heads up...you know damn well everyone would flip out if they didnt know ;)

oh wow,nice, is gfy going into the vbulletin future?

holy crap..

3.5.3 :thumbsup

Yep. :Oh crap

84 pages in the checklist right now, and probably 84-pots of strong coffee to go with it for this weekend!!! :1orglaugh

oh shit...NICE

but that is going to suck for you dude, fuck man, i hate doing upgrades on a custom board/software...which reminds me, I have one on one of my sites that needs an upgrade....I have had the upgrade files sitting here, I am just dreading the 127 manual code insertions

For those of us outside the USA what's the UTC offset for pacific time?

Yeah, I wanted to make an announcement so the peeps would go into withdrawl. :arcadefre

Oh no what ever will I do? GFY is my homepage now! LOL

I have this twisted love/hate relationship with this addictive board.

I will have to force myself to perhaps read the news instead if I am awake during those hours

noted...

Thanks for the notice.

Maybe you should pin this? :warning

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/zones.html

:thumbsup

I had everything just about ready to go for 3.5.2, and then 3.5.3 came out yesterday afternoon. It figures, and it was back to the digital drawing board. :sadcrying

During any downtime, it would be a damn fine time to sign up for...

RealityCash!!!

:) :) :) :) :)

I'll probably pin this thread later, when we don't already have a Sponsor thread pinned. :winkwink:

great. during my primetime here. but updates are mandatory of course. Good job TexasDreams for maintaining an awesome forum btw. :thumbsup

good luck on the updates.

Are you the tech here? If so.. You should go back to school.

Bahahahahahahaha!!! :1orglaugh

Sometimes I forget the images I even have on my server. Looks like Rictor was REALLY enjoying the Mailman's grip!!! :Graucho

just do your best not to fuck it up.

Actually had my degrees in Electronics Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering before you were born. Was writing code since 1978, and working in systems engineering and avionics control systems as well. Haven't been back in a classroom since I was an instructor in the mid-90's. I've found a lot of better ways to make make money since. :)

That's why I'm testing everything on a development server first.

My favorite quote, Alan Sheppard (NASA's first man in space) : "Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up!"

dude, see, now you got me all wondering about the upgrade I need to do

I checked out the instructions, only 4 pages, got about 10 miinutes in, and said fuck it

i went to the software companies website and paid them $20 to do it for me

HAHA

NO SHIT.

I'M SHORT ON XANAX. DON'T DO THAT TO ME :mad: :helpme

:upsidedow

:warning :warning :warning Attention Woj :warning :warning :warning

Glad to hear thing will be getting fixed. Good job TexasDreams :thumbsup

I actually miss Woj, and his...

50..........................!

:sadcrying :sadcrying :sadcrying :sadcrying :sadcrying

thanks for the notice

So what's new in this update? They've replaced the old bugs for new bugs? :winkwink:

Cool a fellow engineer :) But you could kick my ass,I`m working on finishing my electrical engineering hehe
Good luck with the upgrade.Let`s see if I can get some work done during the downtime :1orglaugh

That's usually the case. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

TD is the tech king!

nice man! Use them!!! and KILL BOTS!!!

Good luck and I hope that all goes well it's amazing how in so many lines of code 1 little thing can fuck it up and then you have to go find it.

what else ya got Willis????? give us some more hints :winkwink:

Appreciate the advance notice.

Hope everything goes smooth and the coffee supply holds up :winkwink:

thanks for telling!

As far as the look and feel of GFY, the changes will be very minor.

But the backend code has pretty much been rewritten 100%, and that's why I'm doing so much testing. All the code has been made more modular, to allow features and other updates to "snap-in" as modules. Before, to add any features you had to hack on the original files, sometimes 100's of them just to put in a new feature. With the old code even a minor update was usually a very painful process. Now that it's modular, adding new features will be quick and easy. :)

Good luck with the updates man... Im sure we will still get the morons making threads... but thats the nature of the game...

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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we run 3.5.2.... sooooooooo many toys lol

Will 3.5.3 also eliminate CamRabbits? :)

I'll have to look for that plug-in module. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

thanks for the update!

:smokin

thanks. That allows me to plan my medication better.