title: Development and Production Workflow
body: <p>I've seen pieces of this problem solved around the net, yet I'm still confused, so I thought I'd ask the smart folks at Stack Overflow about this.</p>
  
  <p>We're a small startup and at the moment our workflow from <strong>development -> production</strong> involves ftp-ing in and just uploading the dev code. </p>
  
  <p>The dev code IS under subversion control - although we haven't leveraged trunks/tags/branches since I don't have a good idea of how to best use this structure. I feel that there should be a seamless integration with the live site that doesn't require me copy-pasting folders and files.</p>
  
  <p>Here's some details:
  - developing on CakePHP + MySQL
  - hosted at Media Temple (gs)
  - developers use both Mac OS (Coda) and Windows (Dreamweaver)</p>
  
  <p>So my ask is: how do you setup a proper scalable workflow?</p>