Our regular meetup is the third Tuesday of every month - currently rotating between ICF and Bixal in Fairfax.
Please join us on September 15 at 7pm for presentations by Solomon Gifford and Matt Carey, appetizers and drinks! Please show up early because we'll be starting with the presentation at 7:15, as there's a lot to cover.
Solomon fromBlackMesh will be talking about Local vs. Remote Development: Do Both by Syncing Your Site From Kitchen to Cloud.
Where do you do your website development? On your local machine or local VM? What about remotely on a server? Each comes with advantages and disadvantages. Developing locally means colleagues and clients can’t see your progress without handing them your computer. Developing remotely “over the wire” means lost development time if you have a spotty or slow internet connection or need to work offline. It also (potentially) means that multiple developers are stepping on each other’s work in the shared remote development space.
This shouldn’t be an either-or choice. The solution is to keep your local environment in sync with your remote environment.
In this session we’ll demonstrate how to mirror your local and remote development environments and discuss the issues involved, including:
A brief example of how to use a multi-machine Vagrant setup with a private networkHow to use HAProxy to get rid of the pesky Vagrant ports and fake domainsHow to set up Jenkins to keep the environments in sync, including:Keeping files in syncKeeping code in syncPeriodically transferring the database
This session assumes you are familiar with Vagrant, but even if you are not, you will walk away from this session with a strategy and toolset that allows you to quickly apply this pattern to each new site you develop.
Matt from AddThis Inc. will be presenting on the new AddThis Audience Targeting Feature.
This presentation will provide an overview of the new AddThis Audience Targeting feature which enables site publishers to deliver personalized calls-to-action unique to each visitor that increases audience engagement across a site's most valuable metrics. Backed by the largest network of real time first party user data (15M sites) on the web, AddThis empowers brands with “Amazon-esque” personalization helping them leverage on- and off- domain audience insights to boost site conversions with audience targeting.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Carla, Kelly and Mark
Drupal NoVA Co-Organizers