Advantage Labs

A lot of Lab Hours regulars must have stayed indoors to avoid the heat this week.  It was a smaller crowd this time around, and I got to catch up with more people than usual.  It was nice!  After a brief diversion on the history of locally-owned bookstores (Barry has the inside scoop!), we set our sights on:

We got a lot done today!

Last Wednesday's Lab Hours was a busy time. Here's a quick summary of what we covered:

Many of our clients and colleagues have been migrating toward using versioning systems to manage the development of their websites and their clients' websites. Advantage Labs uses an open source version control software system called Subversion.

Advantage Labs is a firm believer in maintaining "version control" of its managed sites. A software called Subversion allows us to set up a system for "checking out" sites from the server to make changes (experimenting with new modules for example) on a local computer without affecting the live site. Then, if and when the changes are deemed ready for the live site, the changes can be "checked in" back to the server with a log containing notes about the changes.

These directions should help you check out your site from Advantage Labs' Subversion repository. These directions assume a basic understanding of Subversion techniques. You will need a subversion client in order to connect to your repository

Each Advantage Labs managed site has it's own repository, available for checkout at:

http://svn.advantagelabs.com/sites/foo.com

Where foo.com is the name of your website. We also have an example repository for anyone to checkout, available at that URL.

The Advantage Labs, Inc. managed Drupal repository is available for public checkout and browsing.

You can browse the repository online at or you can check it out using your Subversion client of choice. To check out the SVN repostitory, point your client to:

http://svn.advantagelabs.com/managed

The managed repository has the following basic structure: