The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
In this week's episode, we'll be revisiting the Git workflow in greater detail. I was originally going to discuss Capistrano too but quickly realized...
Last week, this error brought many of our deployments to a screeching halt. "upload via sftp failed on metaltoad.com: Net::SFTP::StatusException...
When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your...
One interesting thing that has evolved from our use of Capistrano is the configuration files have become the de-facto documentation hub for a...
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
You may know about some of the problems that CSS has as a language. There is a lot of repetition. There is a lot of repetition. You may have worked...
When we added the Compass CSS authoring framework to our projects, new wrinkles appeared in the deployment process. Committing the artifacts to Git...
Cap has made our deployments simple, fast, and reliable. However, it can only access services you yourself have access to. Establishing this access...
In my last post, a basic intro to to running cap deploy was presented. Now, let's look at some more advanced scenarios. (See Part 1 for the actual...
I'm a big fan of having an automated deployment process. It's really the web development analog to the "one step build process", as described in the...