I was still sipping my morning coffee but Ryan Masuga had already delivered his talk on the Git version control system at EECI in Leiden. His talk, subtitled “Everyday version control for ExpressionEngine using Git,” walks through the basics of Git and then how to apply it to ExpressionEngine. He also covered the workflow they use to manage changes on devot:ee.
Ryan’s slides are well annotated, so even if you weren’t able to be there (like me) for his talk, you should get a lot of out them.
Read Ryan’s presentation page, which includes a video, slides and related links: Let’s Git It On by Ryan Masuga
Prolific EE developer Leevi Graham has posted a Github gist (re: code-snippet) that explains how to add weblog tag parsing functionality to your code. Not only is this extremely useful to addon developers, but Leevi was kind enough to comment the crap out of it. Here’s the introduction:
/**
The function below demonstrates how to use the weblog obect
to parse your own custom module / plugin tags
Usage {exp:my_plugin:use_weblog_object} ... {exp:my_plugin:use_weblog_object}
The tag will now behave like an exp:weblog:entries tag accepting the same params
**/
Leevi is the developer of some of my favorite extensions including LG Better Meta and NSM Publish Plus. I recommend both of these addons highly for your client installs.
Tired of copying sites via (S)FTP and then editing files directly on the server? Do you wish you could keep a current snapshot of the site files in a safe version control repository and then deploy out changes as needed?
Well, Hivelogic’s Dan Benjamin has written an exhaustive tutorial on how to deploy your ExpressionEngine websites with GitHub and Capistrano (a deployment tool created for deploying Ruby on Rails sites).
Here’s Dan’s summary:
Many people are familiar with the advantages of using Git and GitHub to manage their projects and source code, but deploying an ExpressionEngine installation for deployment in this way can be a bit tricky. This article details the Capistrano recipe I’ve created specifically for automating the management and deployment of an ExpressionEngine website, with provisions for maintaining uploaded content across deployments, omitting unwanted content from the repository, setting the correct permissions, and more. The recipe also handles creating the server-side directories you’ll need to accomplish these tasks in a completely automated way.
Go expand your EE toolbelt and deploy your sites in a powerful way!
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