Duration: 12 hours Training materials: slides, code samples Prerequisites: some experience with developing Drupal modules, familiarity with Drush, a general understanding of Linux-based systems

The Power of Code-Driven Development

• Code, configuration and content
• Issues in distributed development
• Issues in upgrading a production site
• Database dumps and their shortcomings
• Faster development with Drush

Basic Work with Features

• The Features module
• Creating a Feature
• Maintaining a Feature
• A closer look at the Features engine

Working with Multiple Features

• An efficient directory structure
• Features boundaries
• Avoiding transversal Features
• Naming conventions: Kit

Making Configuration Exportable

• Items exportable out of the box
• Direct integration: the Features API
• The CTools module: exportables
• The Entity API
• Example: the Strongarm module

Project Bootstrap

• Managing every site as a distribution
• Makefiles and Drush Make
• Installation profiles and their customization
• Hard and soft configuration

The Code-Driven Workflow

• Updating Features as modules
• Updating sites/distributions using the install profile
• Handling concurrent developments on the same site
• Structural and incremental updates

Advanced topics and guided examples

• Building truly modular features
• Features inheritance
• Overriding existing Features
• Deploying a Features server

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