You'll likely get a lot of good advice from your questions, but the truly wise are those that seek answers to the questions they didn't even know to ask.

That would be your question #4.

• Isolated test, QA & development environments
• QA - unit/regression test management & load testing
• Source code control - consistent procedures for fork/merge, etc.

These coalesce into a higher order problem of version/revision control and roll-out/roll-back that will bite hard later on. When the apps get large and heavily used, rolling out a new version that doesn't break everything can be a real pain.