2. About Me
3. Drupal developer! 4. Module maintainer 5. php | mysql | jquery 6. Beer lover
@connerton 7. What is a feature? A feature is a collection of Drupal entities (e.g. views, contexts, CCK fields, etc.) which taken together satisfy a certain use-case
8. Key differences:
9. Collects functionality rather than creating it 10. Easily enabled by lay people, and they don't have to look at the core modules page to do it 11. Live Demo
12. CCK Fields 13. Multiple Views
Multiple Imagecache Presets 14. Organize and Share
15. Organize all your projects and releases 16. Intergration with drush make for easy deployment of projects 17. Decentralized approach to distribution means you can have greater control over the process 18. What is Drush?
19. Some helpful commands:
20. drush enable {module} 21. drush disable {module} 22. drush update {module} The best of all:
23. What is drush_make
24. http://drupal.org/project/drush_make/ 25. 26. What can drush_make do?
27. Fetch themes and installation profiles. 28. Check code out from CVS, SVN, git and bzr repositories. 29. Download plain .tar.(gz) and .zip files (particularly useful for libraries that can not be distributed directly with drupal core or modules). 30. Fetch and apply patches 31. Magic Drush Make Demo 32. What Features can't do
Exporting variables. 33. Enabling blocks. 34. Exporting nodes (not really within scope). 35. Probably more things 36. So Whats Next?
37. Installation Automation (to the nation?) 38. Questions? Discussion? Beer Time?
39. http://drupal.org/project/context 40. http://drupal.org/project/drush 41. http://drupal.org/project/drush_make What you need:
42. Twitter: @connerton 43. d.o: mrconnerton
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