Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance

Developers love building new things. The excitement, however, seems to wane once the project is done and out in the wild. Fighting the urge to move on to the Next Great Thing (tm), this talk will cover all aspects of maintaining a project. Starting with the initial project setup, then moving into the issues surrounding ongoing work, refactoring, balancing feature requests and keeping clean, releasing updates, and new developers joining (or leaving) the project.

Presentation given at LoopConf, May 2015

Transcript

1. ZEN AND THE ART OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE
2. ANDREW NORCROSS Founder & Lead Developer
3. I WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING
4. GOOD
6. (probably not)
7. EXAMPLES
8. Airplane Mode GOOD
9. Simple Social Sharing BAD
10. FAQ Manager UGLY
11. BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION
12. SET UP A DAMN ROADMAP
13. (this slide intentionally left blank)
14. THE CODE
15. hooks & filters are your BEST FRIEND
16. REFACTORING
17. BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
19. USERS
20. Randal Graves noted American philosopher This job would be great if it weren’t for the f* cking customers.
21. RTFM
22. ALL REQUESTS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
24. WELCOME PATCHES
27. I WANT YOU TO HELP ME
28. HANDOFF
29. SUNSETTING
30. THANK YOU