Continuous Integration (CI) is a method of software development focused on small pieces of work, integrated frequently, tested automatically, and deployed regularly. Simple in concept, it requires a fair amount of effort and infrastructure to set up and use. This session wil describe how your Drupal development team can achieve Continuous Integration, including:

* Using from a source code repository
* Automating the testing of every commit
* Testing in a clone of the production environment
* Making the current and prior versions easily accessible

I see it all the time. People getting permanently injured on the job. Companies running reckless through the lives and well-being of their employees. Both frustratingly ignorant of their ignorance. After months, sometimes years, they call me in to look around, examine the mess, and try to put it right. Mostly, they’re just working without a net.

Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. Learn how Open Source and Drupal are saving nonprofits worldwide in IT costs while providing fast, easy code development.

This session will provide a step-by-step guide to building a simple application that communicates with Drupal to save and read nodes. The session is intended to help interested developers who already have a high level understanding of how web services communication works but are interested in the coding details on how to actually do it. Code will be explained and demonstrated for each step. Consequently, this session will be very workshop-like and attendees are encouraged to come with laptops pre-loaded with Titanium Studio and a barebones Drupal development test site set up somewhere.

Slides: 

Intro-to-using-Titanium-with-Drupal-Services.pdf

In case you missed the news, Drupal is growing. As Drupal grows it continues to evolve and become a critical component of mission critical, high performance systems. Development teams are growing and becoming more geographically dispersed. Systems needs are increasing as Drupal becomes more capable. The days of using a single LAMP machine to run a site were there for you to learn but do not apply in the enterprise world. I work regularly on Drupal sites that have as many as 51 different servers communicating with each other and working together.