11 protips for a stress-free and smooth deployment of web applications

1. 11 tips for a smooth web
application deployment
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2. Michelangelo van Dam
• PHP Consultant
• President PHPBenelux
• Zend Certified
Enigneer
ZEND
FRAMEWORK PHP .

3. #1: Tasklist

4. Keeping track of the future

5. While knowing the past

6. #2: Revision control

7. Great for collaboration

8. And to tag milestones

9. #3: Release notes

10. Celebrating a release

11. #4: Documentation

12. Resources for team members

13. #5: Automatisation

14. From retrieving sources

15. To deployments

16. #6: Staging (DTAP)

17. Cheap hosting

18. Even cheaper virtualization

19. #7: Control

20. Quality of code

21. Indication of progress

22. #8: Acceptation

23. Random end-user testing

24. It’s a proven part of SE

25. #9: Strategy

26. Deploy continuously

27. #10: Trust
Photo credit Joe Nangle

28. Achieve trust by collaboration

29. #11: Relaxation

30. Deploy from anywhere
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31. Thanks
contact: michelangelo@in2it.be
website: in2it.be
twitter: @DragonBe
facebook: DragonBe
google+ : Michelangelo van Dam

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