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Comment on Using ANT To Deploy Drupal by ben

ben — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:24:09 +0000

Greg... quick thoughts.

Keep only the schema in version control
Regularly (weekly or more/less depending on what you are dong) copy back production data from prod to qa and to dev
When db changes are good to go and ready for deployment, capture the changes in alter.sql files, these should be in version control
Admin settings and similar data should be tracked in a wiki or whatever you use for knowledge management
When you deploy to qa or production you run the alter statements and go through the wiki making the required changes in the admin interface

Comment on Using ANT To Deploy Drupal by greg

greg — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:11:06 +0000

That’s great Ben! In the meantime any hints you can provide would be more than welcome. I am considering checking the backup sql file into SVN and then doing a merge with the staging DB backup file and then finally a production restore. However there are several problems with this approach due to identity columns and the fact that some configuration data could be different in production than staging (i.e. we use the SSL module that forces SSL on certain pages).

Comment on Testing business card designs for devpatch . . . by Einar

Einar — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:42:56 +0000

Think I like the blue best.

Great design I like the wheels & the name.

But you know black means people can’t write on the card… I am shunning away from black cards a bit now

Comment on Using ANT To Deploy Drupal by ben

ben — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:07:43 +0000

Greg – great question, I think I will write a followup blog post addressing this issue. Stay tuned

Comment on Using ANT To Deploy Drupal by greg

greg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:52:04 +0000

Thanks for the great article! I have several drupal websites and have been looking for the right solution to manage my dev/qa/prod deployments. What do you do about the database?

- Greg

Comment on fishing in really really rural west virginia by Chris Pazda

Chris Pazda — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:37:44 +0000

Dude

Those are some nice pics. So do you have waders????

Comment on OS X Could not load definitions from resource org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml Resolved by Haritha

Haritha — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:27:06 +0000

Thanks ..this did fix the problem

Comment on YUI Compressor and ANT – JS Minification by Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:46:32 +0000

Hmm, I do not know if you can get any more debug info out of it, kind of a bummer.

I don’t know if this helps but you could search your JS files for use of “identifier”. I think YUI is saying you are using this and it is a reserved word.

Only will help you if you have a small number of JS files.

Comment on YUI Compressor and ANT – JS Minification by Raffi

Raffi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the information.
When I ran the minification on all my js files, i got 3 errors.
There is no clue about the file on which it found these errors.
Is there a option to get the file name.
I enabled the “-v” option, it gave additional Info messages, but it does not have a log entry for the start and end of the file.

Any ideas to get the file information?

———————————————————–
[apply] [ERROR] 77:13:missing variable name
[apply]
[apply] [ERROR] 80:56:identifier is a reserved word
[apply]
[apply] [ERROR] 81:59:identifier is a reserved word
[apply]
[apply] [ERROR] 1:0:Compilation produced 3 syntax errors.
[apply] org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Compilation produced 3 syntax errors.
[apply] at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressor$1.runtimeError(YUICompressor.java:135)
[apply] at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:410)
[apply] at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:355)
[apply] at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.parse(JavaScriptCompressor.java:312)
[apply] at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.(JavaScriptCompressor.java:533)
[apply] at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressor.main(YUICompressor.java:112)
[apply] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[apply] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[apply] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[apply] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
[apply] at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:20)
[apply] Result: 2
———–

Comment on Tips For Remote Software Development and Team Building by Custom Software

Custom Software — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:46:15 +0000

I agree a manager should have complete trust of individuals under his management. If employees do not trust their manager it make the managers life very difficult indeed. The manager has to make it very visible that he is backing up everyone in his team!