Developer Effectiveness Techniques

Presented at Austin on Rails on Feb 2013

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1. DEVELOPER EFFECTIVENESS TECHNIQUES Tim Tyrrell 1 1 Wednesday, February 27, 13
2. Oh hai! Tim Tyrrell Ruby and Javascript at HomeAway.com in Austin .... 2 2 Wednesday, February 27, 13
3. This is not a GTD talk 3 3 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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6. Disclaimer: This stuff works for me 6 6 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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9. “Mouseless” + “Home Row” = My Intended/Ideal Workflow 9 9 Wednesday, February 27, 13
10. Hangin’ wit my Homies 10 10 Wednesday, February 27, 13
11. Hangin’ wit my Homies 11 11 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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13. Why did I choose Vim? When getting into Rails, started with Linux (no TextMate and $) Sublime Text 2 didn’t exist Came from Visual Studio and Rational Soft. Arch. (Heavy IDE’s) gedit - Could not find shortcut to move to file explorer emacs was not super Rails popular (that I was aware of) 13 13 Wednesday, February 27, 13
14. Vim in 15 seconds Two modes - “Normal” (movement) and “Edit” Motions - For editing or entering “edit” mode Movements - Getting somewhere quickly in “normal” mode It is lightweight and fast It is everywhere 14 14 Wednesday, February 27, 13
15. Remap your escape key 15 15 Wednesday, February 27, 13
16. Remap Your Escape 16 16 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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18. Hands On 18 Motions Macros normal bufdo, tabdo, windo 18 Wednesday, February 27, 13
19. How do you function without an IDE? Command-T (sorry dudes, I think ctrl-p is slow on big projects) ctags supertab using non-verbose and non-ceremonial programming languages 19 19 Wednesday, February 27, 13
20. Useful Vim Plugins Pathogen (or vundle) Vim-Fugitive (Git integration) Vim-Rails ......... 20 20 Wednesday, February 27, 13
21. Vim Wrap-Up If you see yourself hitting jjjjjjj, you are doing it wrong. 21 21 Wednesday, February 27, 13
22. tmux terminal multiplexor (wtf?) access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session Includes most features of GNU Screen 22 22 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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24. No, seriously, why? You can keep your hands off the mouse Helps you organize projects into distinct sessions Powerful and easy keyboard shortcuts Pair Programming (even next to each other) Remote Sessions 24 24 Wednesday, February 27, 13
25. tmux Demo 25 25 Wednesday, February 27, 13
26. tmux window manipulation vim-turbux vimux 26 26 Wednesday, February 27, 13
27. Tmuxinator #  ~/.tmuxinator/project_name.yml project_name:  Tmuxinator project_root:  ~/code/rails_project socket_name:  foo  #  Not  needed.  Remove  to  use  default  socket rvm:  1.9.2@rails_project pre:  sudo  /etc/rc.d/mysqld  start tabs:    -­‐  editor:            layout:  main-­‐vertical            panes:                -­‐  vim                -­‐  #empty,  will  just  run  plain  bash                -­‐  top    -­‐  shell:  git  pull    -­‐  database:  rails  db    -­‐  server:  rails  s    -­‐  logs:  tail  -­‐f  logs/development.log    -­‐  console:  rails  c    -­‐  capistrano:    -­‐  server:  ssh  me@myhost 27 27 Wednesday, February 27, 13
28. tmux Wrap-Up If you dig keeping all your workspaces organized If you like to work hands-free If you like to have precise control over your splits If you could benefit from “lightweight” pairing If you like to feel like an uber dork 28 28 Wednesday, February 27, 13
29. ZSH (Z Shell) Super Configurable Oh My ZSH! community aliases and other goodies Folder autocompletion Vi key bindings 29 29 Wednesday, February 27, 13
30. Alfred 30 30 Wednesday, February 27, 13
31. Alfred Hotkeys Clipboard History Spell/Define Extensions 31 31 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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33. Pomodoro Stay focused for a period of time (45min focus/15min break) Runs an AppleScript: Close Twitter Close Email Close Notifiers Start SelfControl 33 33 Wednesday, February 27, 13
34. SelfControl 34 34 Wednesday, February 27, 13
35. DuckDuckGo Don’t get tracked Great shortcuts to other search engines !gi !gf !gh !a !yt !gm ....... 35 35 Wednesday, February 27, 13
36. BetterTouchTools Maximizing Window moving Probably hotkeys? 36 36 Wednesday, February 27, 13
37. nvALT.app Very lightweight note taking app Shortcuts to edit the files in a different editor (MacVim???) Evernote HOW DOES IT WORK? 37 37 Wednesday, February 27, 13
38. f.lux Adjusts your lightning day and night Annoying at first, but it is the right thing to do 38 38 Wednesday, February 27, 13
39. YokuFukurou Super lightweight Twitter app Vim hotkeys Great “mute” functionality 39 39 Wednesday, February 27, 13
40. Guard 40 Fast/instant feedback Grown/tmux notification Keeps you focused 40 Wednesday, February 27, 13
41. LiveReload 41 Hooks into a browser (Chrome, FF, Safari) Saves your from refreshing the damn page I believe Guard also has some reload functionality Thanks Rob Mack for telling me when it was $1 in the AppStore 41 Wednesday, February 27, 13
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43. White(Brown) Noise http://www.simplynoise.com/ iPhone app and 60 minute looping clip for my Mac 43 43 Wednesday, February 27, 13
44. Caffeine OMG, stop touching the mouse every three minutes to stop your computer from going to sleep!!! 44 44 Wednesday, February 27, 13
45. ShadowKiller Remove the stupid shadow http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ShadowKiller 45 45 Wednesday, February 27, 13
46. Non-Tech Sleep Take Breaks Take Walks Read a non-tech book Get a hobby that is not tech 46 46 Wednesday, February 27, 13
47. What about you? 47 47 Wednesday, February 27, 13
48. How to find you inefficiencies? Every time you notice something silly, write it down, look it up later Pair with someone 48 48 Wednesday, February 27, 13
49. Take the Time 49 49 Wednesday, February 27, 13
50. Wrap Up 50 50 Wednesday, February 27, 13