Instant Awesome Dev Environment using Drupal Quickstart

Setting up a development environment is a repetitive, tricky, and time-consuming task. It's a *major* hurdle for any new developer.

Drupal Quickstart uses virtualization (Virtualbox) to offer new and experienced developers a pre-made, downloadable development environment, customized for Drupal development and theming.

Quickstart offers individuals a ready-to-go experience, and teams opportunities for standardization and easy collaboration.

In this session, I'll cover:
1) How to get started (I'll bring DVD's with Quickstart on them)
2) How to download and install Drupal 7 in one command
3) How to debug that project with XDebug and Netbeans
4) How to performance profile code with XHProf and the Debug module

It is possible to do this in a one hour beginner session because the tools are already setup in the development environment. For more info, check out the Quickstart screencasts on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/drupalquickstart

I'll present using the Quickstart 1.0 version. Based on download statistics and 3200 views on YouTube, I estimate between 500 and 1000 people have downloaded and use Quickstart on a daily basis.

Slides: 

Drupal_Quickstart_Presentation.ppt