Montreal Girl Geeks: Development Concepts

Presentation 10 Development Concepts Designers Should Know for Montreal Girl Geeks. Resources are at: http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/presentations/web-development-tips

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1. 10 web development Concepts - a - designer should knOw Thursday, 28 February 13
2. What’s up with the arm? Thursday, 28 February 13
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4. Writing - a - Brief 1 Thursday, 28 February 13
5. E x a c t l y What - are you - building? Thursday, 28 February 13
6. Separate WHY - from - HOW Thursday, 28 February 13
7. Describe What Users DO Thursday, 28 February 13
8. Be clear - about - what you will provide Thursday, 28 February 13
9. - consider - programming constructs 2 Thursday, 28 February 13
10. Conditional Logic if... then... else Thursday, 28 February 13
11. Loops Thursday, 28 February 13
12. why is that Thing different? Thursday, 28 February 13
13. Storing Data 3 Thursday, 28 February 13
14. “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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19. This costs time money -&- developer Sanity Thursday, 28 February 13
20. Source C o n t r o l 4 Thursday, 28 February 13
21. - What is - Source Control? Thursday, 28 February 13
22. Git Subversion Visual SourceSafe Mercurial Bazaar Thursday, 28 February 13
23. Do you use any kind - of - source control? Thursday, 28 February 13
24. Do you use Source Control? NO 37% YES 63% Thursday, 28 February 13
25. Do you use Source Control? NO 22% YES 78% Thursday, 28 February 13
26. Do you use Source Control? NO 56% YES 44% Thursday, 28 February 13
27. Why bother? Thursday, 28 February 13
28. Back up Thursday, 28 February 13
29. -Pick up- a project anywhere Thursday, 28 February 13
30. Rollback - to a - Previous version Thursday, 28 February 13
31. Bring in another team member Thursday, 28 February 13
32. Hosted source control Thursday, 28 February 13
33. beanstalkapp.com Thursday, 28 February 13
34. github.com Thursday, 28 February 13
35. -Professional - Development Environments 5 Thursday, 28 February 13
36. Developing directly - on the - live site Thursday, 28 February 13
37. 5 percent Thursday, 28 February 13
38. Developing - in a - subfolder of the live site Thursday, 28 February 13
39. Developing locally - Without a - web server Thursday, 28 February 13
40. Mirror the live environment Thursday, 28 February 13
41. Run your own server Thursday, 28 February 13
42. Create proper staging servers Thursday, 28 February 13
43. Code Re-use 6 Thursday, 28 February 13
44. Lazy is good Thursday, 28 February 13
45. - Code - Snippets Thursday, 28 February 13
46. snipplr.com Thursday, 28 February 13
47. S t o r e common interface elements Thursday, 28 February 13
48. Standard Test elements Thursday, 28 February 13
49. - Form - Validation 7 Thursday, 28 February 13
50. - The - forgotten states Thursday, 28 February 13
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52. Protect your design from Progra mmers Thursday, 28 February 13
53. Consider front - & - back end Validation Thursday, 28 February 13
54. Don’t make spam - a - user problem Thursday, 28 February 13
55. E-commerce - & - taking payment 8 Thursday, 28 February 13
56. Welcome - to a - whole new World - of - Pain Thursday, 28 February 13
57. What do you really NEED? Thursday, 28 February 13
58. Don’t forget Thursday, 28 February 13
59. Special Offers Thursday, 28 February 13
60. Shipping Options Thursday, 28 February 13
61. VAT - & - local taxes Thursday, 28 February 13
62. Taking Payment Thursday, 28 February 13
63. Options Thursday, 28 February 13
64. Storing card data to process later is nOt aN OptioN Thursday, 28 February 13
65. Make someone else responsible Thursday, 28 February 13
66. Pci Dss Thursday, 28 February 13
67. Pay Page can be a comfort to your users Thursday, 28 February 13
68. Pay Page saves you money Thursday, 28 February 13
69. Designing for Pay Page solutions Thursday, 28 February 13
70. Pay Page Thursday, 28 February 13
71. hOsting 9 Thursday, 28 February 13
72. Cheap hosting is expensive Thursday, 28 February 13
73. Don’t be at the bottom of the foodchain Thursday, 28 February 13
74. Types of hosting Thursday, 28 February 13
75. Shared hosting Thursday, 28 February 13
76. Virtual Private Servers Thursday, 28 February 13
77. Dedicated Thursday, 28 February 13
78. Cloud services Thursday, 28 February 13
79. Should YOU become a host? Thursday, 28 February 13
80. Security 10 Thursday, 28 February 13
81. - Be - Paranoid Thursday, 28 February 13
82. S p a m defacement - & - stealing details Thursday, 28 February 13
83. It’s Not Personal Thursday, 28 February 13
84. - The - hidden cost - of - Free Thursday, 28 February 13
85. Software Upgrades must be part of the Spec Thursday, 28 February 13
86. Hack at your peril Thursday, 28 February 13
87. Be extra paranoid about 3rd party plugins Thursday, 28 February 13
88. Keep server software up to date Thursday, 28 February 13
89. Only store - What you - really need Thursday, 28 February 13
90. Never store plain text passwords Thursday, 28 February 13
91. Shift liability where possible Thursday, 28 February 13
92. HALP!!! Thursday, 28 February 13
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