Agile Toolbox for a PHP Developer (Dec 2014)

Presented at TechInAsia's Hackatron Asia 2014

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1. AGILE TOOLBOX FOR A PHP DEVELOPER
   Sat, 6 Dec 2014 - Hackatron Asia 2014
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2. SLIDES
   http://j.mp/phpagiletoolbox
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3. MICHAEL CHENG
   Engineer, Neo Innovation Pte Ltd
   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. WRITING TOOLS
   • Use an IDE
   • VIM (https://code.google.com/p/macvim/)
   • PHPStorm (http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm)
   • Netbeans for PHP (https://netbeans.org/features/php/)
   • Atom (https://atom.io)
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8. WRITING TOOLS
   • RTFM
   • PHP website (http://php.net)
   • Dash (http://kapeli.com/dash)
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9. COLLABORATION TOOLS
   • Version Control System
   • Git (http://git-scm.com/)
   • SourceTree (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com)
   • GitHub / BitBucket (Git repo hosting)
   • Gitlab (in-house)
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10. COLLABORATION TOOLS
    • Ways of using Git
    • Git Flow
    • Forking workflow
    • https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/
    comparing-workflows
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11. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
    • Use a PHP framework that supports testing
    • Laravel 4 (http://laravel.com/)
    • CakePHP (http://cakephp.org/)
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12. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
    • Check code dependencies.
    • Composer (https://getcomposer.org/)
    • NPM, Browserify, Bower
    • Bundler (http://bundler.io)
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13. 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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14. 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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15. INSTALL LIBRARIES
    $ composer install
    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%
    - Installing php-activerecord/php-activerecord (v1.1.2)
    Downloading: 100%
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16. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
    • Quick PHP server
    • Build in web server (php -S localhost:8000)
    • PHPUp (https://github.com/lox/phpup)
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17. PHP BUILD IN WEB SERVER
    $ php -S 0.0.0.0:8000
    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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18. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
    • Use a Virtual Environment 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. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
    • Terminal Tools
    • iTerm 2 (http://iterm2.com)
    • Tmux (Terminal muxing) / Tmate (remote access)
    • Window Manager (quick screen resizing)
    • Size Up / Spectacle / Moom
    • Autojump (https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump)
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20. TESTING TOOLS
    • Use a Testing Framework
    • PHPUnit (http://phpunit.de/)
    • Codeception (http://codeception.com/)
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21. TESTING 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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22. TESTING TOOLS
    • Automation Testing
    • Selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org)
    • Saucelabs / Testdroid / Selendroid
    • Capybara (http://jnicklas.github.io/
    capybara)
    • Modern.ie (http://modern.ie/en-us)
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23. DEPLOYMENT TOOLS
    • Continuous Integration
    • Jenkins-CI (http://jenkins-ci.org)
    • Cruise Control (http://
    cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net)
    • Travis-CI (http://travis-ci.org)
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24. OTHER TOOLS
    • Online tools
    • Online JSON viewer (http://
    jsonviewer.stack.hu/)
    • Nitrous.io (http://nitrous.io)
    • PivotalTracker (http://pivotaltracker.com)
    • Trello (https://trello.com)
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25. 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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26. MORE READINGS…
    • Awesome PHP 

    (https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php)
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27. QUESTIONS?
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