Education
The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
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Capistrano
The Cloud
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
AWS
Capistrano Deploy to dynamic AWS EC2
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
Agile
10 Months as a Junior Developer
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
Drupal
Git: Always Be Branching (ABB)
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...
Drupal
Fixing "no such file" error in Capistrano upload()
Last week, this error brought many of our deployments to a screeching halt. "upload via sftp failed on metaltoad.com: Net::SFTP::StatusException...
Drupal
Faster Database Backups via Drush! Plus Capistrano Integration
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...
Capistrano
Parse / extract server settings from your Capfile
One interesting thing that has evolved from our use of Capistrano is the configuration files have become the de-facto documentation hub for a...
Artificial Intelligence
Simplify your WordPress Deployments
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
Capistrano
What is SASS?
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...
Drupal
Integrating Compass with a Git / Capistrano deployment workflow
When we added the Compass CSS authoring framework to our projects, new wrinkles appeared in the deployment process. Committing the artifacts to Git...
Capistrano
Capistrano authorization How-To
Cap has made our deployments simple, fast, and reliable. However, it can only access services you yourself have access to. Establishing this access...
Artificial Intelligence
Deployment with Capistrano Part 2: Drush integration
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...
Drupal
Capistrano: Drupal deployments made easy, Part 1
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...