[support] Development Best Practices

[Ryan LeTulle]

Nicely done, Victor

Thanks for the insight
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are in excellent company in the Drupal community. As you must be aware,
> there is no single approach towards tailoring software development
> engineering to Drupal.
>
> If you'll go over past DrupalCon talks, slides and videos (as well as the
> Lullabot Do It With Drupal series) you'll find a lot to get excited about.
>
> Go to http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/schedule and you will see many
> talks on the subject, and if you click on them many have slides and video
> links.
>
> The site from DrupalCon Copenhagan is unfortunately offline now, but there
> was a gem of a gem there, which in my opinion is the first thing you should
> watch, and which is saved for posterity by archive.com:
>
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/OnTheImportanceOfDoneScrumAndDrupalAtTheEconomist
>
> "Join Rob Purdie, ScrumMaster at the Economist, and Ezra Barnett
> Gildesgame, Developer at Growing Venture Solutions, as they discuss how the
> Economist uses Scrum to focus on completing work according to an exacting
> "definition of done."
>
> We'll cover what "done" means in Scrum, and explain both the processes and
> tools we use to deliver thin vertical slices of functionality and coordinate
> with our development teams in London, New York, and Austin, Texas as we
> build the online product for a publication with a circulation of over 1
> million in subscribers in over 200 countries."
>
> So this is no abstract BS session, but really how they got things done, in
> terms of process in general and configuration management and testing in
> particular.
>
> Grep in archive.com for drupalcon and you will find many more gems.
>
> Then there is my own book, Leveraging Drupal, quite obsolete since it was
> published in Feb, 2009 (today there is aegir, and the modern drush, and git
> and "everything in code"...), but whose first chapter might be interesting
> to you (it's free online here:
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470410876.html ).
>
> Topics you should find out about: aegir, drush, everything in code (and
> features), git, hudson and drupal, selenium and simple test and drupal...
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
> http://drupal.org/project/pft
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:18 AM, mark bradley <gopearls42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to Drupal, evaluating it for use in our corporate web site. I've
>> looked through the documentation and I'm wondering if there's anything about
>> how the traditional development flow of Development-to-QA-to-Production
>> works with Drupal.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
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