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.

VirtualBox is a great way to quickly create and manage development environments. I'll be showing how to do everything you need in VirtualBox remotely using just a browser and phpVirtualBox, including quickly installing drush and setting up Drupal systems that are isolated and very close to what you get in a VPS environment such as Linode.

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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.