Tell Me A Story

Don't tell people what it does, tell them a story

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1. Tell Me A Story  briandoll
2. Why stories?
3.  elabs/serenade.js @jnicklas
9. “dexterous control of a prosthetic arm and hand”
11. “you can hug your wife now”
12. Beer story == higher price
13. Write the README first
14.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
15.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
16.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
17.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
18.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
19.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
20.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
21.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
22.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
23.  setup  context  heroes  villain  dialogue  conflict  idea  decision  resolution Elements of great stories
24. Who are your customers?
25. Why do they care?
26. What makes this unique?
27. What does success/failure look like?
28. Disclaimer
29. “a full-stack web framework wrien with speed and flexibility in mind” “rapid development framework for PHP that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code” “fast, secure, professional, high-performance, component-based PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications” Which framework?
30. “a full-stack web framework wrien with speed and flexibility in mind” “rapid development framework for PHP that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code” “fast, secure, professional, high-performance, component-based PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications” Which framework? - symfony - CakePHP - Yii
31. Tool to deal efficiently with legacy code through creating and running characterization tests automatically (Do you want to cover your legacy code with thousands of automated unit tests in just few lines of code‽..)  azvg/Asis Today Suggestion Automatically generate tests for legacy PHP code
32. Composer is a dependency manager tracking local dependencies of your projects and libraries.  composer/composer Today Suggestion Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies for PHP projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.
33. Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client & framework for building RESTful web service clients  guzzle/guzzle Today Suggestion Guzzle speaks HTTP beer than you do. If you’ve got an outbreak of web services in your app, rub some guzzle on it!
34. Liberating Web Analytics. Piwik aims to be the ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics. We love Pull Requests!  piwik/piwik Awesome as is:
35. The classic email sending library for PHP PHPMailer - A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP  PHPMailer/PHPMailer Today Suggestion PHPMailer is a complete mail client used by countless open source projects and developers everywhere.
36. # 6 language on GitHub 7% of all projects on GitHub (595k of 8.5M) 181% of all websites (???) (W3C)  php/php-src
37. “PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.” - php.net  php/php-src Today
38. ???  php/php-src Suggestion
39. Tell More Stories  briandoll