I'm slightly groggy this morning after a late night celebrating the go-live of a largish internal web project for my employer. I've been in the office 12 or more hours most days for about two weeks. We went live yesterday and it looks like all is well.
When our systems guys completed the installation on the production servers and confirmed everything to be working as advertised a tangible wave of relieve emanated from London and spread in an ever widening circle over southern England and out over the ocean. It circled the globe a few times before becoming too weak to detect. You may have felt it on one of its passes.
My involvement was quite broad - a bit of web design here and there, and general technical help for the content authors, but mostly I concentrated on the security/authentication and personalisation of the site.
For the first time this year we are using an indirect feed from our central people database to drive access control and personalisation. The main issues were to do with our complex company structure and the at times scattered or brain-held data needed to unambiguously identify people and their roles/access rights.
If anyone involved is reading this - Great job, people. Great team, too.
8:28:11 AM 
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