How To Roll Your Own - PHP Antwerp meetup

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How To Roll Your Own Building your own development tools

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www.ixudra.be - @ixudra

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First website

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Latest work

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Lots of progress

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Disclaimer

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ixudra/curl

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Why reinvent the wheel?

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Why reinvent the wheel?

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php-mod/curl

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shuber/curl

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ixudra/curl

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ixudra/curl

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ixudra/curl

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* Data: 2016-07-27 Current stats*

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ixudra.be/blog For further reading

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In total

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/ixudra/ixd-template • Custom project template • Preferred ﬁle and directory structure • Project conﬁg • Commonly used composer packages

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Custom Laravel packages /ixudra/generators

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Custom Laravel packages

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/ixudra/portfolio

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/ixudra/csi

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In retrospect • Very time intensive but very much worth it. • Primarily for my personal work ﬂow • Focus is on reusability

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Other examples

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Other examples

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Other examples

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Beneﬁts • Huge gains in development speed • Increased consistency in all of my projects • New skills and and techniques can easily be transferred to other projects • Learned lots of new things in doing so

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Disadvantages • Being stuck in the same routines makes it more difficult to learn new things • More difficult to jump into a new project that doesn’t follow your workflow • Developing packages is hard • Very easily for packages to become obsolete

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How to start your own?

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Time vs effort

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Step one: check the competition

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Step one: check the competition

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Step one: check the competition

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Step two: environment setup

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Step three: research best practices

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Step three: research best practices http://phppackagechecklist.com

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Step four: implementation

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Step ﬁve: documentation

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Step six: set up reminders

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Closing remarks • Call for action • Create one or more of your own packages and let me know how it all worked out • Take a look at my packages and tell me what you think • Rate this talk to help me improve my speaking abilities

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Closing remarks • Call for action • Create one or more of your own packages and let me know how it all worked out • Take a look at my packages and tell me what you think (http://github.com/ixudra) • Rate this talk to help me improve my speaking abilities