With Drupal 8 on it's way in, PHP's standard practice of using composer is working it's way into a Drupal developer's normal life. Jump ahead of the curve and start using Composer for your Drupal 7 projects with this complete demonstration of a composer workflow using the following packages.
Drupal Packagist
Drupal Tangler
Drupal Library Installer
Demonstrations on the composer workflow will include some of the following examples
Installation of core Installation of a new module or theme Installation of a library. "Patching" a module. Updating module / core versions.
This month's speaker is Allan Chappell, a Senior Solutions Architect from Promet Source Chigago. He is an experienced web developer from the SaaS (Software as a Service) world with specialties in Continuous Integration and Automated Testing. He has worked on a variety of architectures since he graduated from Devry University of Irving, Texas.