Montreal Girl Geeks: Development Concepts

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10 web development Concepts - a - designer should knOw Thursday, 28 February 13

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What’s up with the arm? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Writing - a - Brief 1 Thursday, 28 February 13

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E x a c t l y What - are you - building? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Separate WHY - from - HOW Thursday, 28 February 13

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Describe What Users DO Thursday, 28 February 13

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Be clear - about - what you will provide Thursday, 28 February 13

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- consider - programming constructs 2 Thursday, 28 February 13

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Conditional Logic if... then... else Thursday, 28 February 13

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Loops Thursday, 28 February 13

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why is that Thing different? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Storing Data 3 Thursday, 28 February 13

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“The UI is not just an interface between the browser and a human, it’s an interface between a human and a database. You can't have an interface unless you can connect to both things. If you don't know how your interface connects to a database, what are you interfacing to? Ryan Singer - in an interview at Future of Web Apps London 2010 Thursday, 28 February 13

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This costs time money -&- developer Sanity Thursday, 28 February 13

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Source C o n t r o l 4 Thursday, 28 February 13

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- What is - Source Control? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Git Subversion Visual SourceSafe Mercurial Bazaar Thursday, 28 February 13

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Do you use any kind - of - source control? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Do you use Source Control? NO 37% YES 63% Thursday, 28 February 13

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Do you use Source Control? NO 22% YES 78% Thursday, 28 February 13

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Do you use Source Control? NO 56% YES 44% Thursday, 28 February 13

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Why bother? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Back up Thursday, 28 February 13

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-Pick up- a project anywhere Thursday, 28 February 13

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Rollback - to a - Previous version Thursday, 28 February 13

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Bring in another team member Thursday, 28 February 13

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Hosted source control Thursday, 28 February 13

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beanstalkapp.com Thursday, 28 February 13

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github.com Thursday, 28 February 13

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-Professional - Development Environments 5 Thursday, 28 February 13

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Developing directly - on the - live site Thursday, 28 February 13

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5 percent Thursday, 28 February 13

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Developing - in a - subfolder of the live site Thursday, 28 February 13

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Developing locally - Without a - web server Thursday, 28 February 13

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Mirror the live environment Thursday, 28 February 13

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Run your own server Thursday, 28 February 13

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Create proper staging servers Thursday, 28 February 13

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Code Re-use 6 Thursday, 28 February 13

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Lazy is good Thursday, 28 February 13

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- Code - Snippets Thursday, 28 February 13

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snipplr.com Thursday, 28 February 13

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S t o r e common interface elements Thursday, 28 February 13

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Standard Test elements Thursday, 28 February 13

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- Form - Validation 7 Thursday, 28 February 13

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- The - forgotten states Thursday, 28 February 13

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Protect your design from Progra mmers Thursday, 28 February 13

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Consider front - & - back end Validation Thursday, 28 February 13

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Don’t make spam - a - user problem Thursday, 28 February 13

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E-commerce - & - taking payment 8 Thursday, 28 February 13

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Welcome - to a - whole new World - of - Pain Thursday, 28 February 13

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What do you really NEED? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Don’t forget Thursday, 28 February 13

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Special Offers Thursday, 28 February 13

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Shipping Options Thursday, 28 February 13

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VAT - & - local taxes Thursday, 28 February 13

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Taking Payment Thursday, 28 February 13

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Options Thursday, 28 February 13

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Storing card data to process later is nOt aN OptioN Thursday, 28 February 13

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Make someone else responsible Thursday, 28 February 13

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Pci Dss Thursday, 28 February 13

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Pay Page can be a comfort to your users Thursday, 28 February 13

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Pay Page saves you money Thursday, 28 February 13

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Designing for Pay Page solutions Thursday, 28 February 13

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Pay Page Thursday, 28 February 13

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hOsting 9 Thursday, 28 February 13

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Cheap hosting is expensive Thursday, 28 February 13

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Don’t be at the bottom of the foodchain Thursday, 28 February 13

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Types of hosting Thursday, 28 February 13

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Shared hosting Thursday, 28 February 13

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Virtual Private Servers Thursday, 28 February 13

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Dedicated Thursday, 28 February 13

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Cloud services Thursday, 28 February 13

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Should YOU become a host? Thursday, 28 February 13

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Security 10 Thursday, 28 February 13

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- Be - Paranoid Thursday, 28 February 13

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S p a m defacement - & - stealing details Thursday, 28 February 13

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It’s Not Personal Thursday, 28 February 13

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- The - hidden cost - of - Free Thursday, 28 February 13

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Software Upgrades must be part of the Spec Thursday, 28 February 13

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Hack at your peril Thursday, 28 February 13

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Be extra paranoid about 3rd party plugins Thursday, 28 February 13

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Keep server software up to date Thursday, 28 February 13

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Only store - What you - really need Thursday, 28 February 13

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Never store plain text passwords Thursday, 28 February 13

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Shift liability where possible Thursday, 28 February 13

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HALP!!! Thursday, 28 February 13

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