deployment

Building a Product on top of Drupal

Kathleen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:52:01 -0800

For the past year, all of my Drupal work has been devoted to building a product on top of Drupal. In the beginning of the year, I worked with the Science Collaboration Framework to create PD Online. For the past 7 months, I have been with GoingOn building a social education platform on top of Drupal. I hope I will have the opportunity to tell you everything I have learned at Drupalcon in the Building a Product on top of Drupal session held by Tao Starbow and I.

Learning more about Staging and Deployment

Kathleen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:55:45 -0800

Staging and deployment is a vital part of any project, Drupal or not. As I've discussed previously, staging and deploying to production is particularly difficult for all the Content Management Systems out there that intermingle content and configuration settings within the database - and Drupal is definitely one of them.

dbscripts v1.0 released

Kathleen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:36:49 -0700

I finally decided that what I've been developing in the dbscripts module is stable and decent enough to deserve an official 1.0 release. I've written up the problem I was trying to solve with these scripts in another blog post.

So what are some improvements I've done since I first released it? Besides refactoring and cleaning up the code, I have added:

Development Environment for Drupal

Kathleen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:33:44 -0700

There are virtually an unlimited amount of ways to set up a development environment, and it all depends upon your project's individual needs and your preferred workflow. Sometimes, though, it just takes experience and exposure to other ideas to figure out what would be best. So, here is a description of my development environment.

Development to Production: A Database Merge Script

Kathleen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:35:20 -0700

Migrating changes from development to production is particularly tricky in Drupal due to a large amount of configuration settings being stored within the database. Attendees of Drupalcon 2008 made it clear that this is a particularly annoying problem. I attended the Development / Test / Production Environments panel to learn about how the big guys (including Drupal.org itself) manage deploying their sites from one working space to the next. We were disappointed to discover that even the big guys are currently writing down all the steps to upgrade and simply performing them on the production server.

This method poses several problems due to the Human Element being involved in the entire process.