Developer Experience in the PHP World

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by your friend: Ryan Weaver @weaverryan Developer Experience in the PHP World

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KnpUniversity.com github.com/weaverryan Who is this Hipster? > Lead for the Symfony documentation  > KnpLabs US - Symfony Consulting, training & general Kumbaya > Writer for KnpUniversity.com Tutorials

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We <3 Cake Big plate of cake

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Ephemeralization* @weaverryan

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* shamelessly “borrowed” from David Zuelke http://bit.ly/dzuelke-ephem

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing “

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/chandramarsono/4324373384

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/krawcowicz/4153762400

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limited by site https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/40132991@N07/3715292940

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/avlxyz/4999120709

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Easiest scaling ever Simplest Deployment Process @weaverryan

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Do More, With Less

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Less is not about size

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Less …  …eﬀort  …drain on my patience …drain on my energy …design on this slide

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UX @weaverryan

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Do more with less Ephemeralization for Development

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Less is not (necessarily) about code written

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Less… …Dev Time …Learning Curve …Complexity

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A Path to DX in 6 Steps

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1. Architecture First (Simple) @weaverryan

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Complexity: Consisting of many diﬀerent and connected parts

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Simple vs. Easy @weaverryan

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Architecture First: Don’t Sacriﬁce for DX @weaverryan

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1. mammoth class  2. Expects a “signed request” on either $_REQUEST or $_COOKIE  3. Sends a curl request to exchange the OAuth code for the access_token  4. Send another curl request to fetch user data

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Perceived Aﬀordances @weaverryan

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Nope! Possibilities are easily Perceivable

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Yep! Possibilities are easily Perceivable

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Nope!

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Yep!

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Design Principles @weaverryan

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Use Private Methods Nope!

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Use Private Methods Yep!

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Limit Mutability Nope!

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Limit Mutability Yep!

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Callbacks instead of Interfaces Nope!

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Yep! Callbacks instead of Interfaces

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Expressive Naming Nope!

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RUN! Expressive Naming

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On My Side? or In My Way? @weaverryan

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@weaverryan 2. Easy

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@weaverryan Feature-Driven (personae) Think about the problems that need to be solved

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@weaverryan Add Layers

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@weaverryan Nope!

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@weaverryan Yep!

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@weaverryan Yep! Accessible to Beginners

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@weaverryan Yep! … clear path for noob -> expert

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@weaverryan 3. The 5 Minute Experience

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@weaverryan Yep! Instant Gratiﬁcation

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Nope!

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Nope!

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Nope!

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Nope!

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A real app can evolve from this @weaverryan

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@weaverryan 4. Big Giant Exception Messages with Links (because, why not?)

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Users can avoid the docs before getting the ﬁrst-use pay-oﬀ @weaverryan

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@weaverryan Going that direction is unwise. Nope!

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@weaverryan THERE ARE RAPTORS IN THE TALL GRASS! STAY OUT OF THE TALL GRASS! Yep!

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@weaverryan Could not load type "enitity" Nope!

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@weaverryan Unknown field type “enitity” when creating your form. Did you mean “entity”? Yep!

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@weaverryan Credentials Error. Nope!

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@weaverryan Error retrieving credentials from the instance profile metadata server. When you are not running inside of Amazon EC2, you must provide your AWS access key ID and secret access key in the "key" and "secret" options when creating a client or provide an instantiated Aws\Common \Credentials\CredentialsInterface object. Yep!

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@weaverryan 5. Documentation

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Quick Navigation: 2 Clicks @weaverryan Nope!

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Quick Navigation: 2 Clicks @weaverryan Yep!

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@weaverryan One Page per Topic OK

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@weaverryan Yep! One Page per Topic

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@weaverryan Tutorial-Style … with code examples Nope!

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Tutorial-Style … with code examples Yep! + API Docs

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@weaverryan Simple Homepage Yep!

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@weaverryan Yep! Editable

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Comments? Online Playground? Where can I get help? @weaverryan

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@weaverryan 6. Backwards Compatibility

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Thanks for Learning and Using my Library @weaverryan

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@weaverryan Also, screw you!

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A Call to DX @weaverryan

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You say: “this kinda sucks” First @weaverryan

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We (all) work to ﬁx it Second @weaverryan

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Hi! I can improve that for you!

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Celebrate! Third

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Repeat Finally @weaverryan

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You drive DX… @weaverryan

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…and move us towards Ephemeralization @weaverryan

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… so we can accomplish so much more with less @weaverryan

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@weaverryan PHP & Symfony Video Tutorials KnpUniversity.com Thank You! https://joind.in/13433

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Thanks to… http://developerexperience.org/ http://softwareas.com/patterns-of-developer-experience/ http://blog.oshineye.com/2011/05/what-is-devexp.html http://blog.pamelafox.org/ @mtdowling @crell https://joind.in/13433

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@weaverryan Open Symfony Training knplabs.com/training in Nashville, TN March 4, 5 & 6 https://joind.in/13433