The Top Ten Development Lessons They Didn't Teach You in School

You’ve graduated, accepted a job and have a shiny new business card that reads Software Developer. What’s next? It's time to get your hands dirty and write some real code, in real code bases, merging your work with the work of nine coworkers, all while juggling maintenance requests and the ongoing development of an in-house toolkit. How do you keep all of this (and yourself) from crashing into the ground?

In this talk, we'll go through the top ten lessons that were missing from your computer science syllabus about how to be a functional developer, whether you work on a team or on your own.

Presented at NERD Summit 2014

Transcript

1. The Top Ten Development Lessons They Didn't Teach You in School
2. Dustin Younse @milsyobtaf http:/ /dustin.younse.com
3. Tools
4. How do you get around your code?
5. "Text Editors" (Windows) (Mac) (Mac / Linux) Notepad Textedit Nano
6. Text Editors (Windows) (Mac / Linux) (Mac / Windows) (Mac) (Mac / Linux / Windows) (Mac / Linux / Windows) Notepad++ Vim Dreamweaver BBEdit Sublime Text Atom
7. IDEs
8. Integrated Development Environments (Mac / Linux / Windows) (Mac / Linux / Windows) (Mac / Linux / Windows) PHPStorm Eclipse Komodo
9. Version Control
10. "Options" Subversion / SVN Git Mercurial Fossil
11. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. - Chinese Proverb
12. Shortcuts
13. Aliases .gitcon g git commit -m "This is my commit message" c = commit -m git c "This is my commit message"
14. Aliases .gitcon g git reset --soft ^HEAD uncommit = reset --soft ^HEAD
15. Frameworks and Libraries
16. Good for your environment Command line frameworks Bash It Oh My ZSH
17. Good for prototyping Bootstrap HTML5 Boilerplate Drupal
18. Good for production Drupal Performance Bootstrap Optimization
19. Refactoring
20. It already works
21. It needs to keep working - the same
22. Git is your friend git log git di
23. Functional differences matter Unit testing PHP Unit Testing Javascript Unit Testing Behavioral testing SimpleTest QUnit Behat
24. Visual differences matter Screenshots PhantomCSS
25. Community
26. Meetups Drupal / PHP / CSS Meetups Refresh Creative Mornings
27. Online Groups groups.drupal.org Dribbble
28. Communicating
29. The Medium Is The Message Skype Google Hangout IRC IRCCloud HipChat Slack
30. Communication
31. Clients
32. Coworkers
33. Vendors
34. Vendors - You Don't Pay
35. Sharing
36. Ways to Share Talks Blog Posts Releasing Code
37. Code / Configuration Github Software / Hardware http://dot les.github.io The Setup
38. The Most Important Lesson of All
39. Alley Interactive @alleydev http:/ /alleyinteractive.com
40. Dustin Younse @milsyobtaf http:/ /github.com/milsyobtaf/nerds14