Justin Ludwig

1. Regard deployment "best practices" as "minimum requirements".

Seriously. This is talked about everywhere so anyone reading this probably knows it already, but I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to have a deployment strategy.

Put everything over revision control and commit often using clear and meaningful commit messages. Develop all functionality on a dev server and test it on a staging server that matches your live environment before finally pushing it up to your live environment.

This is the first in an ongoing series called Learning By Code. I learn best by looking at other people's code, using it and toying around with it until I fully understand it. That's how I learned Drupal and to this day, when there's something I'm not quite sure of, I go to Google for help. So, I'm happy to announce that JLudwig's Learn by Code Series is born.