Workflow, A Narrative

Talking about my workflow with regards to WordPress at the WordPress Melbourne May Meetup

Transcript

1. Workflow
   a narrative
   Anthony Cole | anthonycole.me | @anthonycole
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2. Hi
   Trust me, I (occasionally)
   work in advertising
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3. Sharing is caring
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4. My Workflow
   • I’m a bit oldschool
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5. Development
   • IDE’s. Lame.
   • Sublime Text 2. Good.
   • GitHub. SVN belongs in purgatory
   • DeployHQ or Beanstalk
   • MAMP - In a perfect world, Vagrant <3
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6. WordPress
   • Usually bleeding edge/beta versions
   • Sometimes things break.
   • Funny story
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7. Testing
   • Testing is hard
   • Ideally I’d love to write phantom.js
   scripts for everything I do - it has a
   test runner.
   • WordPress is inherently hard to do
   TDD with
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8. Hosting
   • Shared? Meh.
   • “In the cloud”
   • The cloud makes everything better
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9. Ideal AWS Setup
   • 1 x ELB
   • 2 x Webheads (nginx + lots of nice
   settings).
   • RDS Backend
   • MySQL is a pain to manage
   • Varnish is lame
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10. RLY?
    • $$$$$$
    • Normally I just install WordPress on
    my Linode
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11. Cool Stuff
    • Puppet (scripted sysadmin) - https://puppetlabs.com/
    • Capistrano (Deploying to multiple servers on Beanstalk
    doesn’t work as well as it should) - https://github.com/
    capistrano/capistrano
    • Vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com/
    • Frontend Things I wanna get into
    • SASS/SCSS - http://sass-lang.com/
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12. Credits
    • http://social-stampede.com/wp-content/uploads/
    2013/04/don-draper.jpeg
    • http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/
    2012/07/doitlive.jpeg
    • http://i.qkme.me/3s0xeo.jpg
    • http://farm9.staticflickr.com/
    8409/8699190406_e39567eeea_z.jpg - from Anthony
    Hortin
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