The Fellowship of the Code - PHP TOUR 2014

Quality & comptencies progess in small web agencies

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1. The Fellowship

   of The Code
   

   Little teams, little clients, Little budgets…

   and the will of quality
   

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2. var me = {!
   "user": "Ronan"!
   , "age": 37!
   , "origin": "Brittany"!
   , "twitter": "@arno_u_loginlux"!
   , "repo": "github.com/ronanguilloux"!
   , "work": "cto@lespolypodes.com"!
   , "tags": [!
   "dad"!
   , "bearded web developer"!
   , "open-source enthusiast"!
   , "web agency veteran"!
   ]!
   }
   

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3. Agence Innovation Numérique,

   Nantes

   

   #frontEnd #innovation #accessibilité
   

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4. #NotSwag
   

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5. Working in 

   small web agencies…
   

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6. alone & resourceful
   

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7. Should your boss & teammates 

   rely on you?
   

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8. Are you a reliable person ?
   

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9. Before changing things,
   let’s change ourselves
   

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10. Developers?

    Deliverers!
    

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11. Delivering Web Apps
    Into The Wild
    

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12. Delivering middle-size web apps
    time estimation: 0,5 to 3 hours

    

    long, unpredictable & stressful
    

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14. The right tool for the job
    

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15. understanding your tools
    

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16. Rule #1 : All my team must be part of it.
    

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17. « If you’re doing automation,
    you’re already doing
    something right. It’s not about
    how you do it. »
    (Shaun Dunne, medium.com)
    « Grunt vs Gulp vs Make vs Rake vs Jake vs Cake vs
    Brunch vs Ant vs Maven vs Bash vs You… »
    

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18. (OK, OK, this is all largely inspired by Capistrano directories structure)
    "
    ➜ myApp tree
    !"" [me 19] current -> releases/2014-06-24!
    !"" [me 68] deploy.sh!
    !"" [me 238] releases!
    # !"" [me 68] 2014-04-20!
    # !"" [me 68] 2014-05-02!
    # !"" [me 68] 2014-05-15!
    # !"" [me 68] 2014-06-01!
    # $"" [me 136] 2014-06-24!
    # !"" [me 68] src!
    # $"" [me 136] web!
    # !"" [me 0] index.php!
    # $"" [me 16] uploads -> ../../../uploads

    $"" [me 238] uploads

    "
    11 directories, 1 file

    ➜ myApp!
    

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19. Cool & simple things always remain cool & simple.
    "
    me@server$~: ./deploy.sh!
    me@server$~: deploying…!
    me@server$~: done!!
    me@server$~:
    

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20. Everyone in the team should now be a deployer.
    "
    me@server$~: make deploy!
    me@server$~: deploying…!
    me@server$~: done!!
    me@server$~:
    

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21. Making is cool.
    "
    me@server$~: make build!
    ! me@server$~: make deploy!
    ! me@server$~: make update!
    ! me@server$~: make whatever!
    me@server$~:
    

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22. Before automation
    

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23. After
    

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24. Deploy ! Deploy !
    

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25. Next enhancement…
    

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26. « As For Github! »
    (probably the best rule ever)
    

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29. Do not always ask for permissions.
    Discovered a first nice rule:
    

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30. Only announce changes

    that just already happened
    

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31. Next enhancement…
    

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32. Semantic Versioning

    As A Delivery Process
    One Roadmap to Rule Them All
    v1.2.3

    

    « major.minor.bugfixes »
    

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33. Again,

    we didn’t ask for permissions

    

    but people quickly adopted this.
    "
    Again, let’s stay quiet & carry on.
    

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34. Make bugs producing… money!
    

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35. « bug + _______ + ____
    = profit! »
    Quizz :
    

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36. = non-regression tests FTW
    = enhancing software business value
    = profit!
    Solution :

    

    « bug + scenario + fix
    = profit! »
    

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37. Building a BDD culture is long,

    This is only BDD groundwork
    "
    ~
    "
    To be sincere:

    

    We really used Behat just once :

    testing critical feats of one critical app.

    

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38. Next enhancement…
    

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39. but no bugtracker at all

    is a perfect hell
    no bugtracker is perfect
    

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40. Web Quality Checklist
    that now should become a test suite
    

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41. Next enhancement…
    

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42. Freeing things
    

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43. Freeing more things
    

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44. Freeing more more things
    

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48. Hacking your organization
    

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49. Ronan Guilloux
    @arno_u_loginlux

    github.com/ronanguilloux
    Thanks!
    Questions ?
    

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