Houston October Meetup

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katherined's picture
Start: 
2010-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
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User group meeting

Join us Tuesday at Caroline Collective. We're planning to talk about version control with git.

Location

7pm at Caroline Collective
4820 Caroline Street
Houston, TX 77004

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PLEASE RSVP here or on Facebook if you plan to attend.

Comments

Yes, vc with git, but also features and drush

texas-bronius's picture

For this presentation, I will be sharing with you my personal workflow involving drush+features+git. I will demonstrate what I can, field whatever questions you may have, and definitely will be open to any ideas on how to improve.

Thai Sticks before this meet-up @ 5:30ish?

texas-bronius's picture

Anyone up for Thai beforehand? http://www.thaistickshouston.com/contact.html again? I can come into town just in time for the meeting or to have some great food first..
-Bronius

No Can Thai

TransitionKojo's picture

I'll be running a bit late due to Daddy Duty, so I won't be able to make it for dinner. I'll probably end up bringing some fast food to eat while you talk. :-)

I'll be there, and will bring

stuartEngelhardt's picture

I'll be there, and will bring several with me.

I wish I could, but I think

katherined's picture

I wish I could, but I think I'll be working late today. I may be in the fast food boat yet again. Ick.

texas-bronius's picture

Thanks, all, for coming out for the October meet-up and making it a real knowledge share. By getting together like this, we can continue to evolve as Drupal enthusiasts and professionals, and I am so happy that there is an active group not incredibly far from home.

Some of the take-backs from last night's meet-up and demo are:
* git commit --amend also requires a git add (or anything else) to make a worthwhile amend beyond just the commit message.
* The reason I couldn't push directly to staging was because staging was on master, and I was trying to push master. Instead, remote should branch to something like "staging" first and continually merge back with master after each push (http://goodold.se/blog/tech/git-workflow-going-live). ymmv.
* mango habenaro bw3 are good but not that hot

And some obligatory links:
* https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddsd5sw7_513frxtvkfq (git to work with Drupal+module patches)
* http://www.spheredev.org/wiki/Git_for_the_lazy (if you want to dive into git, just check out this great resource)
* http://yadadrop.com/drupal-video/drush-site-installation-drupal-7 (drush to dl and install Drupal 7)

notes

Silicon.Valet's picture
  • your "-a" parameter in the git commit amend rolled in the add, so it was unnecessary.
  • great presentation, great resources.

oh - and I use git for backup, vc, and transport

texas-bronius's picture

When discussing the reasons for using Git, we said built-in backup in addition to version control. Hopefully the demo was clear enough that I also rely on Git as a superb transport: no need to manually ftp or scp files around, and when you commit a tiny change in a 30meg file, only that binary diff needs to fly across the wire, not a huge 30meg file!!

CSSEdit for mac

texas-bronius's picture

Completely unrelated other than time and attendance, Jason recommended http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ CSS Edit for the Mac: I downloaded the free trial and immediately see one superb benefit: Open any web page, make changes to css, and watch it update in the live preview without even hitting save! One annoyance therewith is that ctrl-z undo therefore can take you through LOTS of tedious iterations..

Thanks for the tip, Jason. I'll look forward to exploring and hearing more about it.

benefits of the paid version

Silicon.Valet's picture

With the paid version, you can save "milestones" and jump immediately between them. There's also a bookmarklet available on the site to lauch css edit on the viewed page. It's a nifty app.

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