Brevard Meetup - Thursday, January 31 - Cocoa Village

Well, I have still not been at all successful in finding any Drupal business- or site-owner- related support groups. Maybe I am not searching on the right keyword strings. any ideas? But anyway we have 3 people interested, so that's a start. Mike when you and Ben are presenting on environments and process, could you spend a little time clarifying the distinction between data and code... (yes, I know that sounds like a dumb question but I don't know where the line is drawn...) Last night you said "Move data down and code up." (I am guessing that really meant, Move everything down, and only code up from dev to prod.) but are the following things code?
- Content type definitions?
- view definitions (I guess they can be either if committed to code)
- block definitions?
- block contents if it's literals?
- taxonomy definitions
- theme configurations?
- Forum Topic trees?
- permissions and user definitions?
- settings, path patterns, etc
see what I mean? In most worlds (in my world at least) anything structural and predefined would be code. and only added content would be data. is that the case? and if not how can you guarantee identical behavior across environments?

I talked to Michelle (feefloridafirst.com) and she was open to attending the panel that Maggie was asking about.

I am confirming whether this meetup will work for her or whether we need to have her attend a later one.

last time we talked about VirtualBox; here is an article that uses all of that but wraps it in Vagrant to make the developer's life even more efficient
http://webwash.net/tutorials/getting-started-drupal-vagrant?utm_source=T...

The slides from Ben and my "Local, Dev, Stage, Production, Huh?" presentation are attached to the main event text above.

-mike

Mike

Thanks very much for your presentation I found it very helpful especially the importance of GIT and SVN. i will learn these.

Regarding possible presentation topics the following are 2 I am interested in:

1. Taxonomy
2. Information Architecture

Thanks.

Chris

Thanks Ben - this is very helpful. I look forward your examples at the next MUP.

that's true it does, within Drupal. To some extent. (Most enterprises are bigger than Drupal though.)

OK so I think we are on the agenda for next Tuesday for a panel discussion about Information Architecture and Taxonomies. As I understand it, the participants are
Chris Patrick, Ben, Mike and me - anyone else want to volunteer?
So here's a suggested approach - we each take 5 minutes to present what IA and Taxonomy mean to us, why we think it's important, and to define our terms. Then if necessary we can spend a few minutes clarifying any terminology or perspectives. Then we can answer a pre-submitted set of questions (they can be from ourselves or anyone). And then if time permits open the floor to more questions? Does this sound OK? Also do we need a moderator? If so any volunteers?
If everyone agrees, and we can submit questions through this forum. I will collect and organize them ahead of Tuesday night. Sound OK?

I would like for someone to do a presentation that would fill in some gaps in my knowledge on the brass tacks of selling a site and handing over the 'keys'.
It should include:

How to get a domain name (i.e. from the incomprehensible www.we2549 gibberish to something memorable, like 'www.turnips.com').
What kind of arrangements are made when putting your local dev site (from laptop) out onto the server the customer will pay for from now on.
A general list of tasks for the whole process of making a custom site for somebody else.
How future maintenance issues will be handled (i.e. which ones remain my responsibility and which ones the new owner has to resolve or find help for).
Ball-park cost estimates for small, medium and more complex sites.

Any of the advanced Drupal developers who have gone through the whole process could potentially present this and help me get a holistic understanding.