This presentation describes the complete technology stack and methodology that has been developed at Imaginary Landscape, for the development and deployment of applications and web sites in a heterogeneous environment.

Much attention is payed to the programming portion of web application development. But successful web application development requires a lot of infrastructure and methodology beyond programming itself. This talk covers these parts of the process:

• Deploying applications.
• Keeping deployments and dependencies isolated.
• Identifying and managing the configuration of the applications.
• Handling application customizations.
• Source control.
• Customization.
• Cross-application navigation.
• Authentication across application and language boundaries.
• Integrating applications written in other languages for other environments.
• Handling static files associated with applications.

Some new tools will be presented, but the emphasis is on how to bring together a diversity of existing open source tools for a complete development process. While many of these tools will be familiar, often they are presented in terms of what you can do, not what you should do, and this talk presents a series of shoulds.

The motivation behind this toolset is the quick production and maintenance of small, decoupled applications, as well as their deployment in multiple contexts.

Some of the tools covered:

• Subversion
• Apache
• Server-side includes
• mod_auth_tkt
• SCGI
• easy_install
• Paste Deploy
• Paste Script
• buildutils