awebfactory - web application factory pattern

I had a blast right from the start:

Created SVN repository
Installed Basic Drupal
Installing the spanking new Drush
Re-read the bibliography
Reviewed existing toolsets

Created SVN repository

• Created the repository itself
• Created repository basic structure
• Imported basic drupal install (from ./sites on down)
• Committed at every important point
• Finally tagged basic Drupal install

Installed Basic Drupal

I installed Drupal 6.9, the current release of its moment, from CVS, of course. Then I configured it into a basic install: from the SVN log:

@7   	 [7]   	02/06/09 14:58:58  	victorkanebasic Drupal 6-9 install (tag)

@6 	[6] 	02/06/09 14:58:39 	victorkane 	Basic install tag structure 	(edit)

@5 	[5] 	02/06/09 14:54:43 	victorkane 	Drupal 6-9 plus cck, views, devel and admin_menu modules, plus a 	(edit)

@4 	[4] 	02/06/09 14:45:41 	victorkane 	drush install devel module 	(edit)

@3 	[3] 	02/06/09 14:42:05 	victorkane 	added db backup to version control 	(edit)

@2 	[2] 	02/06/09 14:21:29 	victorkane 	initial import drupal 6-9 plus cck, views, and admin_menu modules, plus acquia_marina theme  	(add)

@1 	[1] 	02/06/09 14:15:38 	victorkane 	Initial structure

So, just cck, views, devel and admin_menu modules, plus the acquia marina theme.

I used the amaaaaazing new Drush 2 (6.x-2.0-alpha1) and Drush Extras which live completely outside of any one Drupal instance!

Installing the spanking new Drush

Many ways to do it. What I did on my development workstation:

• I disabled then uninstalled then removed completely from my file system all traces of Drush in any given Drupal installation.
• I took Drush 6.x-2.0-alpha1 and untarred it  under my home directory.
• I edited my .bash_aliases file and included the following line (I baptized it drushcli so I could drum it into my head through dint of praxis that this was not your grandmother's drush):
  

  alias drushcli='php /home/victorkane/bin/drush/drush.php
  

• Smiling to myself, I download Drush extras 6.x-2.0-alpha1 and (whaaaaa??) untarred the contents into a .drush subdirectory in my HOME directory (/home/victorkane/.drush). I really trust this guy moshe weitzman.

Then it worked just the same as always, from any Drupal instance document root directory. OMG.

Re-read the bibliography

• Beck, Kent, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,
  http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Programming-Explained-Embrace-Change/dp/02...
• Cohn, Mike, User Stories Applied,
  http://www.amazon.com/User-Stories-Applied-Development-Addison-Wesley/dp...
• Extreme Programming Website,
  http://www.extremeprogramming.org
• O'Reilly, Tom, "Remaking the Peer-to-peer meme",
  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/495
• DIY Meme Map Generator,
  http://web.forret.com/tools/mememap.asp
• Various discussions on http://drupal.org and http://groups.drupal.org, including the Project Management group: http://groups.drupal.org/projectManagement
• Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards
• Kanban Applied to Software Development: from Agile to Lean
• The Simple, Visual, Iteration Kanban
• What is Kanban?
• We mainly follow the process laid out in User Stories Applied, as explained in text and diagrams in Chapter 1 of my book Leveraging Drupal: Getting your site done right. Chapter 1 is available for free download here.

Reviewed existing toolsets

• Again: Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards
• http://xplanner.org/
• http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-agile-project-management
• http://www.acunote.com/promo  (hmmm. everything's a task... like Trac)

• Legacy Process Flow and Tracker Barcelona (2007) (user: drupal / password: rocks

• http://trac.edgewall.org/