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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Joel Hughes <underscore at jojet.com> wrote:
>  As far as deployment goes - I'll be interested to see how this works.
>  Personally I don't "normally" have too much of a problem with it as I
>  deploy via subversion. The RoR database migration bit looked a tad
>  overkill but I'll reserve judgment.

"I am" Cal Henderson's Future of Web Apps talk on development best
practice, including deployment, can be listened to here:
http://futureofwebapps.com/2008/miami/pastevents.php

Some really good stuff in there, including:

* one-button deploy,
* feature flags instead of branches ("because upside-down, a tree
looks like Cthulu"),
* continuous production/deployment ("because the bigger the teeth [on
the graph], the more likely they are to kill you")
* Developer mailing list to which details of all commits are sent
(useful for forensics)
* and much, much more.

Tim