Coding and Development

Overview: Learn the latest techniques in site development. / simpletests, coding practices, scalability, deployment and so on.
Audience: hobbyist, consultant, web developer

Goals

Create a foundation for development and deployment of Drupal sites
Rapidly create a site with a Drupal specific workflow
Build sites without coding
Use Drupal as a platform

Recommended session and lesson topics

Infrastructure (Nuts and bolts of code, servers, databases, etc.):

Build environment and version control environment. (taken as a configuration management and not develop task (i.e. after-process hooks rather than how to use SVN)
Provisioning (not part of development work flow, but rather its pre-requisite)
Development environment (as environment for all the developers of a project and how that ties in to configuration management)
Non-functional planning (constraints, etc.)
Scaling Drupal, performance and scalability (server/database optimization and distribution)
Virtual servers and virtual services ec2, s3 Drupal and *AMP, a systems level view

Development Workflow (Getting from code to production):

Development environment (including USE of version control and build env.)
Quality Assurance (following/implementing process, procedures, standards)
Testing (unit testing, black and white box testing itself).
Security

Site Implementation (How requirements can be implemented without coding):

Internationalization
Contributed modules: Best of overview
Editorial work flow
Drupal distributions

Extending Drupal (Using Drupal as a platform):

3rd party apps
External data

Projects, Tasks and Initiatives

Development: patching existing code or writing new code
Testing: testing software or writing tests for an existing code base

Resources

Program Leads

TBD