Code Development: A Drupal Learning Track

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Overview: Learn the latest techniques in site development. / simpletests, coding practices, scalability, deployment and so on.
Audience: hobbyist, consultant, web developer

Goals

• Create a foundation for development and deployment of Drupal sites
• Rapidly create a site with a Drupal specific workflow
• Build sites without coding
• Use Drupal as a platform

Recommended session and lesson topics

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Infrastructure (Nuts and bolts of code, servers, databases, etc.):

• Build environment and version control environment. (taken as a configuration management and not develop task (i.e. after-process hooks rather than how to use SVN)
• Provisioning (not part of development work flow, but rather its pre-requisite)
• Development environment (as environment for all the developers of a project and how that ties in to configuration management)
• Non-functional planning (constraints, etc.)
• Scaling Drupal, performance and scalability (server/database optimization and distribution)
• Virtual servers and virtual services ec2, s3 Drupal and *AMP, a systems level view

Development Workflow (Getting from code to production):

• Development environment (including USE of version control and build env.)
• Quality Assurance (following/implementing process, procedures, standards)
• Testing (unit testing, black and white box testing itself).
• Security

Site Implementation (How requirements can be implemented without coding):

• Internationalization
• Contributed modules: Best of overview
• Editorial work flow
• Drupal distributions

Extending Drupal (Using Drupal as a platform):

• 3rd party apps
• External data

Projects, Tasks and Initiatives

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• Drupal Kata projects and tasks
• Development: patching existing code or writing new code
• Testing: testing software or writing tests for an existing code base

Resources

• Coding sessions (DrupalCon Paris)
• Code and Development sessions (DrupalCon DC)
• Site Building (DrupalCon DC)
• Code development track (DrupalCon Szeged)
• Site building sessions (DrupalCon Boston)
• Site building track descriptions (DrupalCon Boston)

Program Leads

• Aaron Winborn (aaron)
• Kristof Van Tomme (kvantomme)
• [add your name if interested]