Re: [PLUG] ideas for class material

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:58:44 -0400
> From: Andrew Craig<axcraig@gmail.com>

> wow what a great set of ideas.  Thank you.  You sent so much great
> info, I need to read it over a few times!

Yeah, there is a lot of devil in all of those details...


> I guess I should have mentioned it is only a 6 week course, albeit
> accelerated.

I probably still would have had the same ideas.  And it's all probably 
still too much for a single course.  OTOH, I suspect that's all in a 
days work for a lot of folks on this list.  Every bit of it is from my 
actual environment, and I still left some stuff out.  :-)


> Lamp, shell scripting, revision control (my paper for last class was
> on git), backup, recovery and test, cron jobs. All of those would make
> for a great class.

From that list, I'd argue for shell scripting.  Any amount of effort 
you put into scripting will pay off 10x or more in the future, I 
guarantee it.  And from that, cron is a trivial add-on, and basic 
revision control is not that much more.  At least the basics of all of 
that are doable in 6 weeks.  There are various LAMP-in-a-can setups, so 
that's less critical.  And backup & recovery, beyond the very high 
level, tends to be pretty specific to the environment (needs, tools, 
resources, backup windows, etc.).  But shell scripting applies anywhere, 
on Linux, Unix, Mac and more&more Windows [1].  You can't lose with that.

[1] Windows shell scripting is either painfully limited (cmd.exe), 
non-standard (KiXtart, AutoIT, NirCmd), or terribly verbose and IMO 
clunky looking (PowerShell or whatever they call it this week).  Here's 
a little bit more: http://www.jpsdomain.org/windows/winshell.html


> Really appreciate the time you took to put this together.

Happy to help.

Later,
JP
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