How to automate (nearly) anything

A talk about tools that allow you to develop faster. Use existing ones or build your own, it's not as hard as you might think. We also discuss some general workflow tools which help you get other stuff out of the way you can get actual work done.

By David Spreekmeester and Mattijs Bliek.
http://grrr.nl

Transcript

2. David Spreekmeester Tech Director Mattijs Bliek Designer / Developer How to automate (nearly) anything
4. User centered
5. Strategy Design Technology
19. On to the geeky stuff!
20. 1. Before development 2. During development 3. Workflow
21. Before development
22. Setting up a work environment
23. Compiling and installing by hand (the horror!)
24. Package Managers
25. Configuration Managers
26. Networked Configuration Management
28. Configuration in the cloud
29. During development
30. Javascript task runners
31. Grunt Gulp
32. You can do a lot of stuff, such as: • Compile CoffeeScript or Sass/Less • Run a Node webserver • Run tests • Run commands on a remote server • Execute shell commands • Distribute files to CDN
34. Vast plugin repositories
35. Connecting to other services is key
36. Roll your own plugins
37. Espresso machine makes coffee when start a deploy
38. Go beyond: roll your own task runner
39. Golem
40. Golem does stuff, so you don’t have to.
41. We build tasks according to our needs in everyday development.
42. Connects you straight to the specified environment g ssh staging
44. What’s happening • Load server info from deploy.rb (already there for Capistrano) • Uses your SSH private key (already there) • Binds everything together in one simple file
45. It’s not rocket science, but it saves a shitload of time.
46. Handles the git part of features, releases, semver etc. git flow in Golem
47. Generate text snippets from a file, so you don’t have to sync an entire database. g snippet
49. Spawns the database structure defined in your config file. g spawn
51. Kind of like Yeoman, but with some extra’s g build
54. Syncs your asset files and database from one environment to another g content sync
55. Workflow
56. Alfred
57. Alfred • Task launcher • File browser • Search • Clipboard history • Workflows
58. Search documentation
59. Quick project management
60. Checking server status
62. Hazel handles incoming files according to rules you set
64. ControlPlane
65. Context aware system config
67. IFTTT
71. Grrr’s Tips
72. Be alert for repetitive, boring tasks
73. Developing: modular, layered, shared library, thin controller
74. Choosing apps: CLI available?
75. Choosing platforms: API with control over all data? Gimme them JSON. Oh wait…
76. What about you..?
77. mattijs@grrr.nl @mattijsbliek grrr.nl @grrr_nl david@grrr.nl @aapit