[support] Development Best Practices

[Carl Wiedemann]

+1 to perusing the past conference sessions. To flesh-out Victor's last
remarks, your question is common among newcomers to Drupal who question
whether every mouse click they make on their dev environment will have to be
made on production as well. In general, the answer is to put the effects of
every mouse click into code so that UI workflows are duplicated by simply
updating files on the production environment.

Check out http://drupal.org/project/features and
http://drupal.org/project/strongarm which allows automated export of site
configuration including content types, fields, views, settings, permissions,
etc. Other changes may be made by leveraging
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--install.php/function/hook_update_N/6in
your own module, or via custom drush scripts
http://drupal.org/project/drush

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:55 AM, mark bradley <gopearls42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, if the first response to my post is any indication, I am indeed in
> excellent company. Thanks very much for all the information, time to dig in
> ...
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:38 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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