So ... our building is still without power today, and most likely tomorrow too. It's questionable whether we will be open Monday.
I spent all morning on the phone with a coworker because ... while the web version of the Case Management application isn't working because it's on the web server which is at the Broad Street location, which is flooded and without power, the desktop version is on the server located at another location. But ... because we have to use Active Directory to log into all our applications, and ... the Active Directory server is at the Broad Street location ... well. You get it. No one can log into the Case Management application.
Except ... there is a copy of the Active Directory server running at the remote locations. So, all we needed to do was to change one line of code in my application to use that version of Active Directory and republish.
Except ... my laptop was at work, and the master copy of the code is on the Subversion server ... which is located at the Broad Street location, and the code on my coworker's laptop was over half a year out of date.
So, we conferenced in our boss, and learned the building is allowing us into the building twice a day to retrieve things, accompanied by security. Of course, with the power off, that means climbing 23 flights of stairs up and back down. Even though, the building has generators, which one would think would be running at least one of the elevators. So ... one of our techs was sent to retrieve my laptop and return it to my coworker. We then made the code change, and I walked him through publishing a new version.
But, oh my gosh, that was like four hours or so of being on the phone. Four hours of vacation time!
