Posts tagged with: Code Driven Development
Nuvole is going to present and discuss its development workflow, entirely based on code and Features, at the DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 in a few minutes! Please find it as a Slideshare embed below, or attached in PDF format.
Read full articleAt Nuvole the adoption of a code driven development has completely revolutionized our working flow making it more maintainable, solid and scalable. Projects like Features and Chaos tool suite are at the heart of it, even though a lot depends still on how actually you are going to use them: good code conventions (see the Kit project), well defined features boundaries and other good practices can really make the difference at the end of the day.
Read full articleThe Features module is great for keeping configuration in code, with just a few clicks you can bundle your settings together and be sure that changes will be tracked and safely dumped to code at the next feature update. However, often you will want to share other kinds of modifications with your team. Imagine you suddenly need to add a Taxonomy vocabulary or to enable a couple of modules your feature will be dependent on. Since your team's workflow is completely 100% database free, you cannot pass those changes by simply sharing your database. Still, you need to push those changes to other developers, who already enabled the feature you have been modifying in their development environment. How do you do that?
Read full articleYesterday night the first "Code Driven Development" meet-up took place at the Krimson office in Antwerp (Belgium). Around 30 people were attending the meeting, most of them to learn more about this new "hype". Nuvole shared its experience in the field presenting "First Steps in Code Driven Development", both an introduction and a collection of tips and examples for a quick start.
Read full articleBuilding a website using Drupal is essentially about tuning and extending its core functionalities to meet the project's specific requirements. During its development phase we create content types with CCK, display them using Views and extend the basic functionalities by setting up contributed modules.
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