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
2. ~1HR OF CAR ANALOGIES DISCLAIMER: I know very little about cars.
3. PARAVEL
4. http://shoptalkshow.com
5. http://a11yproject.com
6. B.A., JAPANOLOGY ೥ςΩαεେֶଔۀੑ
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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 ¯\_(π)_/¯
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…”
11. WHY?
12. Designers Developers The Front End SKILLS of Web Publishing
13. COMPLEXITY
14. PREPROCESSORS /scss _base.scss _grid.scss _type.scss _buttons.scss
 style.scss
15. ATOMIZATION
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)
17. AUTOMATION Making robots do our grunt work.
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    VS ࣗಇԽ Automation Autonomation Made up by Toyota. A part of “Lean Manufacturing” A real word.
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.
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.
22. https://twitter.com/djcoreynolan/status/428019344342151168
23. APPS & GUIS
24. YOUR CODE EDITOR
25. MAKE IT YOURS 1. Find a theme. 2. Add plugins. 3. Tweak settings. 4. Learn quick keys. https://gist.github.com/davatron5000/7215566/
26. HIGHLIGHTING
27. CUBIC-BEZIERS!
28. JS LINTING
29. GITHUB mac.github.com windows.github.com
30. CODEKIT incident57.com/codekit/
31. PREPROS alphapixels.com/prepros/
32. MIXTURE mixture.io
33. MODERN WEB DEVELOPMENT Fetchers, Runners, and Scaffolders
34. PROTOTYPES
 TRUMP IDEAS
35. …BEHOLD! The greatest web development tool the world has ever known…
36. THE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE est.1969
37. Last login: Sun Feb 17 11:22:19 on ttys003 dave on my-macbook.local in ~ $
41. DON’T FEAR FAILURE
42. BETTER WITH FRIENDS
43. CLI ANATOMY* $ tool <task> <options> <input> <output> * 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
44. DAILY SHELL $ cd ~/Dropbox/dev/ $ compass watch $ touch index.html $ jekyll serve --watch $ git push origin master $ npm install node-thingys
45. Bower BUILT ON
46. // 1 minute install: 1. Goto nodejs.org 2. Click “Install” 3. Done.
47. FILE FETCHER Fetches files and dependencies from the cloud so you don’t have manually.
48. $ bower install fitvids // installs jquery AND fitvids Download plugins and dependencies:
49. TASK RUNNER Runs mundane (simple or complicated) tasks over and over and over.
50. Common tasks (usually verbs): $ grunt build $ grunt watch $ grunt test $ grunt serve
51. Common tasks (usually verbs): $ gulp build $ gulp watch $ gulp test $ gulp serve
52. SCAFFOLDING Generates complete prototypes and scaffolds in milliseconds.
53. Rapid application development: $ npm install -g generator-webapp $ yo webapp
54. DEMO TIME: Build a sample website with the command line.
55. THANKS Dave Rupert @davatron5000 github.com/davatron5000