What do you do when Devnet goes down?

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When PHPDN goes down I ...

melt into a puddle of self despair and contemplate suicide until it comes back up
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6%
cry like a baby missing his mother until it comes back up
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8%
keep hitting F5 every two to three minutes thinking it is a cache issue until it comes back up
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26%
keep working but come back every now and again until it comes back up
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46%
go on with my life because in the end, PHPDN is not an addiction of mine
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14%
 
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What do you do when Devnet goes down?

Post by RobertGonzalez »

So let say that by some odd chance the entire PHP Developer's Network for some reason goes down hard (not that this would ever happen :roll: ). What do you do when there is no PHPDN?
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Post by Charles256 »

: replaces his f5 key after yesterday: That answer your question, Mr. Mod? :)
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I've been extremely busy with work, so i've probably only checked two or three times. =]
Luckily for my sanity it wasn't during a slow time.
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Post by Benjamin »

1. Watch the productivity of programmers around the world increase.
2. Watch tons of newbies give up because they get stuck and have nowhere to turn for answers.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

Luckily, there's a methadone clinic near my house. I've also taken up smoking and cold showers.

And I've never been so up to date on my email & RSS feeds!
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Post by matthijs »

Haha hilarious responses.

I think I also managed to get up to date with RSS feeds
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Methadone. Classic. That actually made me L - O - L.
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Post by superdezign »

... If it goes down, I'm blaming you, Everah.
You've jinxed us all. :(


Although, whenever it does go down, I always get more work done. It's easier to answer other people's questions then it is to deal with my own elaborate glitches that are too complex to bother asking about. ;_;
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matthijs wrote:Haha hilarious responses.
WHADDAYA MEAN, HILARIOUS??!!! These guys are SERIOUS!
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superdezign wrote:Although, whenever it does go down, I always get more work done. It's easier to answer other people's questions then it is to deal with my own elaborate glitches that are too complex to bother asking about. ;_;
Boy, I know what you mean there, superdezign! In my case, it's probably not the complexity of my problems as much as it is my denseness. I rationalize by saying that when you're too close to the problem, you can't see it in perspective.
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califdon wrote:In my case, it's probably not the complexity of my problems as much as it is my denseness. I rationalize by saying that when you're too close to the problem, you can't see it in perspective.
Man, I have never been there before.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

Totally serious. I'd snap a photo if my hands would stop shaking.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

I admit to being an F5 pusher. Out of stubbornness. And disbelief.

I assume we're talking about the you-know-what with MySQL on that-day-in-the-past. ;) I think the F5 survived, I can't say the same for the [F] function button which is needed to enable the Function keys to start with on my ultra-stupid media keyboard. I hate that with a vengeance.
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[F] function button which is needed to enable the Function keys to start with on my ultra-stupid media keyboard. I hate that with a vengeance.
Oh my god I hated that too. These days you get to pay more to get a keyboard without that poop.

So why is DevNet going down? Are we hammering the server too hard :P
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Database issues and host issues.
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