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Ethan Hinson

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Show Takeaways Drupal and WordPress can co-exist Throw right into the fire and work it out as a group (for transitioning platforms) Don’t have preconceived notions to which platform is best and let the client requirements decide which one will work out   We hung out with Ethan Hinson, Senior Architect from Blue Tent.  Blue Tent started out as a Drupal shop however found some inefficiencies with the theming layer for some client projects.  Ethan took it upon himself to explore WordPress for the company and laid out a product to sell to potential clients built on WordPress. Seeing as he is the principal architect for Blue Tent and managing developers and projects in both platforms, we thought we’d bring him on the show to chat. Show Notes Drupal  With PSR-0 namespacing, modern PHP coding standards, and that Drupal is committed to RESTful web services coming, it’s an exciting time in the Drupal comunity Blue Tent is using Drupal building mobile applications by using Ionic Drupal will be used for the foreseeable future due to a 12 year investment to a proprietary piece of software  WordPress  Early adopters of the API using 1.x branch moving to 2.x branch doesn’t seem daunting Ethan highly recommends learning Bourbon and Neat Day #1, deployment, continuous integration and provisioning happens with all projects Use Jenkins to handle all the automated processed for setting up staging sites, ticket resolution, etc Use Behat for behavioral driven tests rather than Unit tests Talk about the Fields API and some existing faults with the current solutions  Transitioning from Drupal to WordPress  Developers weren’t kicking and screaming to use WordPress, but the sales and account managers were Loads of education for the developers, alongside the rest of the company Just get into it and see what happens then share experiences  Get In Touch With Ethan You can find Ethan on Twitter and Blue Tent website.

<blockquote><p><strong>Show Takeaways</strong></p> <p>Drupal and WordPress can co-exist</p> <p>Throw right into the fire and work it out as a group (for transitioning platforms)</p> <p>Don’t have preconceived notions to which platform is best and let the client requirements decide which one will work out</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p>We hung out with Ethan Hinson, Senior Architect from <a href="http://bluetent.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Tent</a>.  Blue Tent started out as a Drupal shop however found some inefficiencies with the theming layer for some client projects.  Ethan took it upon himself to explore WordPress for the company and laid out a product to sell to potential clients built on WordPress.</p> <p>Seeing as he is the principal architect for Blue Tent and managing developers and projects in both platforms, we thought we’d bring him on the show to chat.</p> <h1>Show Notes</h1> <h6><b>Drupal</b></h6> <ul> <li>With PSR-0 namespacing, modern PHP coding standards, and that Drupal is committed to RESTful web services coming, it’s an exciting time in the Drupal comunity</li> <li>Blue Tent is using Drupal building mobile applications by using Ionic</li> <li>Drupal will be used for the foreseeable future due to a 12 year investment to a proprietary piece of software</li> </ul> <h6>WordPress</h6> <ul> <li>Early adopters of the API using 1.x branch moving to 2.x branch doesn’t seem daunting</li> <li>Ethan highly recommends learning <a href="http://bourbon.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bourbon</a> and <a href="http://neat.bourbon.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neat</a></li> <li>Day #1, deployment, continuous integration and provisioning happens with all projects</li> <li>Use <a href="https://jenkins-ci.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jenkins</a> to handle all the automated processed for setting up staging sites, ticket resolution, etc</li> <li>Use <a href="http://docs.behat.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Behat</a> for behavioral driven tests rather than Unit tests</li> <li>Talk about the Fields API and some existing faults with the current solutions</li> </ul> <h6>Transitioning from Drupal to WordPress</h6> <ul> <li>Developers weren’t kicking and screaming to use WordPress, but the sales and account managers were</li> <li>Loads of education for the developers, alongside the rest of the company</li> <li>Just get into it and see what happens then share experiences</li> </ul> <h6>Get In Touch With Ethan</h6> <p>You can find Ethan on <a href="https://twitter.com/ethanhinson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and Blue Tent <a href="http://bluetent.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>

Episode 13: Development Workflow with Ethan Hinson