Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:05:15 +0100
Message-ID: <47264b0b$0$29254$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

> Daniel,
>
> to write *really* good, efficient programs, a programmer
> must see its code executing in production. S/he needs
> to get the feeling, the "haha" experience that only
> confrontation with reality can provide.
>
> Figures and methods are not enough. They are too
> abstract. Whenever a programmer is disconnected from
> reality, most often he'll write sub-optimal programs.
>
> Note that a development system a never a full
> simulation of a production system.
>
> Regards

That's why you need a pre-production environment ... with the same hardware and data volume as your production environment. And there are tons of load-simulation programs available (for example Loadrunner, Winrunner etc). However, this is the ideal situation :-)

Matthias Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 16:05:15 CDT