Automating EE Bootstrapping and Deployment

ExpressionEngine Seattle / November 15, 2012

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1. AUTOMATING EE
   Bootstrapping and Deployment
   ExpressionEngine Seattle / November 15, 2012
   

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2. Matt Fordham
   Principal & Technical Director / @mattfordham
   www.wintr.com
   

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3. “A good developer is a lazy developer.”
   – Some lazy developer
   

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4. Automated Development
   CSS Frameworks
   Javascript Libraries
   CSS and JS Preprocessors
   Add-ons (plug-ins, extensions)
   Text editors (snippets, commands, etc)
   

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5. Project Bootstrapping
   The process of quickly getting a new project
   started with minimal setup and repetition.
   

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6. Bootstrapping EE: things to automate
   Creating a new database
   Installing ExpressionEngine
   Setting up file structure
   Creating CSS and JS skeleton
   Configuring EE (prefs, user groups, etc)
   Installing the usual add-ons
   Initializing and pushing to Git repo
   

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7. The Template Repo
   A Git repo containing an already configured copy of
   ExpressionEngine, including a database dump.
   http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/ee-template
   

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8. Strap
   https://github.com/mattfordham/Strap
   

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9. Project Deployment
   The process of copying project files to a server
   and configuring the files to run on the server.
   

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10. Capistrano
    https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
    

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11. Some Useful Links
    https://github.com/mattfordham/Strap
    https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
    https://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy
    http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/ee-template
    http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/deploying-expressionengine
    https://bitbucket.org/cwcrawley/eeci-talk-files
    

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12. Thanks :)
    @mattfordham
    www.wintr.com
    www.matthewfordham.com/blog
    

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