Agile Toolbox for a PHP Developer

Presented at the Philippines PHP User Group on 3 May 2014

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1. AGILE TOOLBOX FOR A PHP DEVELOPER
   Philippines PHP User Group
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2. SPEAKERDECK
   http://bit.ly/agiletoolbox-php
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3. MICHAEL CHENG
   Engineer, Neo Innovations
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   http://twitter.com/coderkungfu
   http://github.com/miccheng
   
   http://CoderKungfu.com
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4. AGILE DEVELOPER
   • Software Craftsmen.
   
   • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
   
   • Working software over comprehensive
   documentation
   
   • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
   
   • Responding to change over following a plan
   Source: http://agilemanifesto.org
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5. AGILE DEVELOPER
   • Communicative and collaborative.
   
   • Discussions around stories.
   
   • Test Driven & Behaviour Driven.
   
   • Tests contains the documentation.
   
   • Responsive to change.
   
   • Not waiting till the end of the dev lifecycle to fix a bug.
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6. THE TOOLBOX
   • Not all of them are written in PHP.
   
   • Best tool for the task.
   
   • DevOps tools - automate tedious tasks.
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7. THE TOOLS
   • Version Control System
   
   • Git (http://git-scm.com/)
   
   • GitHub / BitBucket
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8. THE TOOLS
   • Check code dependencies.
   
   • Composer (https://getcomposer.org/)
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9. COMPOSER
   • Pick and choose libraries you want to put together
   on Packagist (https://packagist.org/).
   
   • Compose your own composer.json.
   
   • Choose a package namespace for your own
   project.
   
   • Reference: https://getcomposer.org/
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10. COMPOSER.JSON
    {!
    "require":{!
    "respect/rest": "0.5.0",!
    "monolog/monolog": "1.7.0",!
    "php-activerecord/php-activerecord": "v1.1.2"!
    },!
    "require-dev": {!
    "phpunit/phpunit": "4.0.*",!
    "guzzle/guzzle": "v3.8.1"!
    }!
    }
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11. INSTALL LIBRARIES
    $ composer install!
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    Loading composer repositories with package information!
    Installing dependencies (including require-dev)!
    - Installing respect/rest (0.5.0)!
    Downloading: 100%!
    !
    - Installing psr/log (1.0.0)!
    Downloading: 100%!
    !
    - Installing monolog/monolog (1.7.0)!
    Downloading: 100%!
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    - Installing php-activerecord/php-activerecord (v1.1.2)!
    Downloading: 100%
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12. THE TOOLS
    • Quick PHP server
    
    • Build in web server (php -S localhost:8000)
    
    • PHPUp (https://github.com/lox/phpup)
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13. PHP BUILD IN WEB SERVER
    $ php -S 0.0.0.0:8000!
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    PHP 5.5.12 Development Server started at Sat May 3
    14:34:44 2014!
    Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8000!
    Document root is /Users/miccheng/Dropbox/workspace/plain!
    Press Ctrl-C to quit.!
    [Sat May 3 14:34:47 2014] 127.0.0.1:50368 [200]: /!
    [Sat May 3 14:34:47 2014] 127.0.0.1:50370 [404]: /
    favicon.ico - No such file or directory
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14. THE TOOLS
    • Use a Testing Framework
    
    • PHPUnit (http://phpunit.de/)
    
    • Codeception (http://codeception.com/)
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15. THE TOOLS
    • Use a PHP framework that supports testing
    
    • Laravel 4 (http://laravel.com/)
    
    • CakePHP (http://cakephp.org/)
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16. THE TOOLS
    • Offline documentation and quick search
    
    • Dash (http://kapeli.com/dash)
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17. THE TOOLS
    • Use an IDE
    
    • PHPStorm (http://www.jetbrains.com/
    phpstorm)
    
    • Netbeans for PHP (https://netbeans.org/
    features/php/)
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18. THE TOOLS
    • Use a Virtual Machine for development:
    
    • Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com)
    
    • Tool for building complete development
    environments.
    
    • PuPHPet (https://puphpet.com/)
    
    • Configuration for a Vagrant VM.
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19. THE TOOLS
    • Debugging tools
    
    • Xdebug (http://xdebug.org/)
    
    • WebGrind (https://github.com/jokkedk/
    webgrind)
    
    • PHPDBG (http://phpdbg.com/)
    
    • > PHP 5.4.* (build in for PHP 5.6)
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20. THE TOOLS
    • Online tools
    
    • Modern.ie (http://modern.ie/en-us)
    
    • Online JSON viewer (http://
    jsonviewer.stack.hu/)
    
    • Nitrous.io (http://nitrous.io)
    
    • PivotalTracker (http://pivotaltracker.com)
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21. MORE READINGS…
    • PHP The Right Way 

    (http://www.phptherightway.com/)
    
    • The PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG)
    (http://www.php-fig.org/)
    
    • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software
    Craftsmanship (http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-
    Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882)
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22. QUESTIONS?
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