development environment

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, September 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Remote participants from farthest to closest (via Skype and Join.me):
Jacksonville - Rick Esser
Tampa - Cynde Mercer @cyndemercer
Miami - Ron Norman @rnorman489

In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Allan Reed @radiantnexus, Jay Epstein @jeppy64 and me @hectoriribarne

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, July 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Brian Wagner, Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Phil Smith @SiliconValet, Dan Denysenko and me @hectoriribarne

This month Phil Smith @SiliconValet (http://www.siliconvalet.net/) presented "My Development Environments . . . and other neat practices". Phil covered the following topics:

• Local, Dev, Test, Live
• Options for Local environments (LAMP, MAMP, WAMP)
• Hosting options (Pantheon, Acquia, Dedicated, Shared)
• Migration Strategy

Hi All,

When working on different Drupal projects I have faced a problem of repeatedly implementing certain features by code. Usually what I do is copy the code from some old modules/theme and customize it for the new requirements. I think most people use the same approach in this scenario.

This may come as a odd question, but can anyone see a reason for not using BOA on a standard graphical desktop environment?
My question comes from the, maybe wrong, idea that BOA is fitted for a "bare" development and/or production environment, i.e., minimal Debian install, no window manager, "Linode" kind of machine. From what I read on the group discussions BOA tends to be somewhat rigid on the setup options. So a desktop environment, with all the multitude of installed applications and constant updates, may ruin the system.
Does anyone has any thoughts on this?

Hurray!

Quickstart 1.0 is ready. This is a bug fix and software refresh over Quickstart 9.1.

General:
* i386 and amd64 versions:
- amd64 for speed, but requires 64bit OS and modern CPU (bittorrent)
- i386 for compatibility (bittorrent)
* Share websites folder for access over windows networking

Software Updates:
* Ubuntu 11.04
* Netbeans 7.0
* Eclipse Helios SR2
* Drush 4.4

Hi, I hope your finding Quickstart useful if you're getting this :-)

I am behind on my plans for QS 1.0, but that's life in open source. I did get a chance to test out the upgrade process in Ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.04.

Hello, I just released an update to Drupal Quickstart:

Version 0.9.1

This release works almost exactly the same as the 0.9 release, but fixes two issues:

• Drush make file problem that appeared after the Git migration
• Git 417 errors caused by squid proxy server

Whew! It's been a hectic couple of weeks, but things are starting to settle down. I'm moving to Austin TX in a couple weeks and I'm excited to be starting a Drupal-based business.

Today Ubuntu released it's new version Ubuntu 10.10 which I'm also excited to try out, and got me thinking about the next version of Quickstart.

What would make Quickstart more useful to you?

I'm interested in Aegir, and want to fix the current install script.

Hello,

I just finished wrapping up Quickstart 0.7 (bittorrent).

This version has lots of new features: Email debugging, Performance profiling (with Webgrind), updates to IDEs, etc.

I've also started to put together some screencasts on how to use Quickstart. If you're interested, check out the YouTube channel. More to come...

Today I discovered WebEnabled, a really cool new service that can get you up and running with Drupal in a quick and innovative way. But first, some background.