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What you will find is opinions, more opinions, and even more opinions on all the aspects of software development - and with a large chunk of them based on real-world experience too.

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Access Control for Admin Tools

July 25, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Access Control - The Hard (Boot) Way

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You DO need access control for your CSRs.

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This approach means that we can have our cake (have tree-like structures to express access rights) and eat it too (have very fast SQL for checking access)

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IX

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Help Desk Software for MOGs

July 19, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

CSRs supporting Game Worlds

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for MOGs, support becomes one of the very important parts of the picture, often on par with Content and Graphics.

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the quality of support when using synchronous support methods such as live chat/phone support tends to be significantly worse compared to asynchronous support such as e-mails/tickets

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IX

Tagged With: multiplayerServer
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Back End Tools for MOGs

July 11, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Front-End vs Back-End

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Make sure that your reports are CSR-driven.

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The vast majority of Back-End Tools are intended for NON-programmers and NON-admins.

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IX

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System Monitoring

July 4, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Monitoring Servers

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We need to monitor EVERYTHING we can afford to monitor.

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Monitoring data doesn’t really require ACID transactions.

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IX

Tagged With: Server
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