Here are the slides from my 2015 Drupal Summit talk, Quality Drupal DevOps!
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Quality-oriented Drupal DevOps
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Always Things Good
Hello John sir i wanna ask you just one question after watching your Drupal slides that how you creates them? They all are fabulous and easy to understand and take in mind.
The presentation was made
The presentation was made using Inkscape + Sozi, http://sozi.baierouge.fr/ . I was looking for something like this, and found Sozi to work very well for this, though editing is a bit technical ;-) I'm using the older stable release, Sozi 13. The newer one seemed more difficult to use, and less portable...
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As a Drupal DevOps enthusiast, I appreciate the emphasis on quality in development. It’s also interesting how project management parallels gaming, much like in Friday Night Funkin where strategy and timing are crucial. Integrating quality assurance into DevOps processes can lead to smoother workflows and enhanced user experience. Anyone else find inspiration from games in their coding approach?
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