Automate Your Tools (Fall 2014)

In this episode I talk about the benefits of automating, autonomating, and friendlier-izing your development environment.

Transcript

1. AUTOMATE

   YOUR TOOLS
   Dave Rupert / davatron5000
   

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2. ~1HR OF
   CAR ANALOGIES
   DISCLAIMER: I know very little about cars.
   

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3. PARAVEL
   

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4. http://shoptalkshow.com
   

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5. http://a11yproject.com
   

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6. B.A., JAPANOLOGY
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7. TABLE OF
   CONTENTS
   Talk about web stuff
   Talk about car stuff
   Talk about command line stuff
   Fail at a live demo
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8. “Web Design is getting too
   complicated. I can’t stay up-
   to-date with all the cool new
   tools and tricks. In my day…”
   

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11. WHY?
    

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12. Designers Developers
    The Front End
    SKILLS
    of Web Publishing
    

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13. COMPLEXITY
    

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14. PREPROCESSORS
    /scss
    _base.scss
    _grid.scss
    _type.scss
    _buttons.scss

    style.scss
    

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15. ATOMIZATION
    

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16. UNIX
    PHILOSOPHY
    Small is beautiful.
    Make each program do one thing well.
    Build a prototype as soon as possible.
    Use software leverage to your advantage.
    Mike Gancarz (1994)
    

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17. AUTOMATION
    Making robots do our grunt work.
    

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18. ࣗಈԽVS ࣗಇԽ
    Automation Autonomation
    Made up by Toyota.
    A part of “Lean Manufacturing”
    A real word.
    

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19. AUTONOMATION
    “Automation with a human touch.”
    1. The machine shall detect malfunctions and stop itself.
    2. No defective parts will be produced.
    3. Easy to locate the cause of any malfunction.
    

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21. WHY YOU MIGHT
    WANT TO AUTOMATE
    1. You like making more money with less effort.
    2. Your company would like to reduce overhead.
    3. You want more time with your spouse/kids/pets.
    4. You would like to do less grunt work.
    

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22. https://twitter.com/djcoreynolan/status/428019344342151168
    

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23. APPS & GUIS
    

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24. YOUR CODE EDITOR
    

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25. MAKE IT YOURS
    1. Find a theme.
    2. Add plugins.
    3. Tweak settings.
    4. Learn quick keys.
    https://gist.github.com/davatron5000/7215566/
    

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26. HIGHLIGHTING
    

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27. CUBIC-BEZIERS!
    

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28. JS LINTING
    

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29. GITHUB
    mac.github.com windows.github.com
    

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30. CODEKIT
    incident57.com/codekit/
    

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31. PREPROS
    alphapixels.com/prepros/
    

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32. MIXTURE
    mixture.io
    

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33. MODERN WEB
    DEVELOPMENT
    Fetchers, Runners, and Scaffolders
    

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34. PROTOTYPES

    TRUMP IDEAS
    

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35. …BEHOLD!
    The greatest web development tool the
    world has ever known…
    

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36. THE COMMAND
    LINE INTERFACE
    est.1969
    

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37. Last login: Sun Feb 17 11:22:19 on ttys003
    dave on my-macbook.local in ~
    $
    

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41. DON’T FEAR
    FAILURE
    

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42. BETTER WITH
    FRIENDS
    

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43. CLI ANATOMY*
    $ tool
    * Not official UNIX talk here
    The task you want it
    to perform
    The app/program
    you want to use Optional stuff
    you may need
    File/folder/URL
    to use as data
    Destination
    File/folder/URL
    

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44. DAILY SHELL
    $ cd ~/Dropbox/dev/
    $ compass watch
    $ touch index.html
    $ jekyll serve --watch
    $ git push origin master
    $ npm install node-thingys
    

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45. Bower
    BUILT ON
    

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46. // 1 minute install:
    1. Goto nodejs.org
    2. Click “Install”
    3. Done.
    

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47. FILE FETCHER
    Fetches files and dependencies from the
    cloud so you don’t have manually.
    

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48. $ bower install fitvids
    // installs jquery AND fitvids
    Download plugins and dependencies:
    

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49. TASK RUNNER
    Runs mundane (simple or complicated)
    tasks over and over and over.
    

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50. Common tasks (usually verbs):
    $ grunt build
    $ grunt watch
    $ grunt test
    $ grunt serve
    

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51. Common tasks (usually verbs):
    $ gulp build
    $ gulp watch
    $ gulp test
    $ gulp serve
    

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52. SCAFFOLDING
    Generates complete prototypes and
    scaffolds in milliseconds.
    

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53. Rapid application development:
    $ npm install -g generator-webapp
    $ yo webapp
    

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54. DEMO TIME:
    Build a sample website
    with the command line.
    

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55. THANKS
    Dave Rupert
    @davatron5000
    github.com/davatron5000
    

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