Small Teams Should focus on Dev not Ops 😱
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A Developer Must Help Their Client Learn To Be a Product Owner
As a freelance developer, my relationship with clients extends far beyond coding. The engagement is educational, helping clients become efficient product owners, understand the value of iterative development, and adopt a proactive approach to Quality Assurance (QA). Also on my end making sure I really understand their domain, their goals and help break down those goals into realistic achievable features.
While I may get paid to code, my ultimate goal is to build the right features. And this is rarely if ever exactly what the Product owner expected.
Read more https://alnutile.medium.com/a-developer-must-help-their-client-learn-to-be-a-product-owner-e178435899d1
We Code in the Context of our Quoting
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://medium.com/@alnutile/we-code-in-the-context-of-our-quoting-dab391fe0881#.6a1k99bu1
Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features . We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense of timing. And it is this skill or lack thereof that drives the experience we are going to have when we code.
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enMarch 16, 2017
The five stages of BDD (and Agile) Adoption
Author: John Ferguson Smart
Author: Jan Molak
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/
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https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html
Diving Into a Laravel Audit
Author: Jesse Schutt
Read By: Jack Fruh
Original Source: http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit
Recently the Zaengle team was asked to look over an existing Laravel application and give a review of the overall state of the code. We were to act as an independent third party, between a new studio who had inherited the codebase, and the client, who was anticipating launching the product.
There's no room for The Idea Guy
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Read By: Ryan MacAllan
Original Source: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy
Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just going to be The Idea Guy.
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enFebruary 12, 2016
Remote Behat Testing with Laravel
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/177
This document will cover how to use a Behat specific API to setup a site for testing. What this includes is setting up a Scenario so that it has the data you need to run a test. This makes it possible not to rely on Seed data for this. This will allow us to run behat tests from remote machines as well as run tests in parallel.ActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in Translation
Author: Matthew Machuga
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.html
Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs. In PHP, this comes down to something like Laravel’s Eloquent ORM as an Active Record implementation vs. Doctrine, the reigning mainstream (and probably only) PHP data mapper implementation. After a surge of interest in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Hexagonal Architecture in the Laravel, and overall PHP communities, people began to detest one of the very things that drew them to the framework in the first place. This was fueled by a number of vocal and notable Laravel community members learning Doctine, talking about it heavily, and some evangelizing it. With outside influence from the PHP world providing the same judgement against the impure Active Record pattern, the pitchforks started to come out from all over.
Feature Flags In Laravel
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175
We are working on using FeatureFlags or Toggles in our applications. For one we are aiming to do all our work on mainline branch at all times so this would be a key coding discipline to use FeatureFlags so we can hide a feature in progress knowing it will not interfere with the application. For example if a hotfix or another feature is ready to go to production we can push that with no worries of the in progress feature.
Git Pull Causes a Merge
Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell
Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell
Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2015/git-pull-causes-a-merge
If you type git pull and expect a fast-forward update, but get a merge instead, don't panic! This usually happens when we're collaborating on a branch with other people, and we've made changes on our local version of a branch, and someone else (or the other you, if you use git to sync between multiple dev platforms) has made changes to the remote version of a branch in the meantime. It also happens really frequently in teams where all commits are to the master branch ... yet another reason to have a decent branching strategy.
Using Composer Without GitIgnoring Vendor/
Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell
Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell
Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2014/using-composer-without-gitignoring
Recent additions to the joind.in API have introduced some new dependencies so we decided we'd start using Composer to manage these - but we don't want to run composer unsupervised. I'm sure this will bring the rain of "just run composer install, it's probably mostly almost safe" criticism, but actually it's quite tricky to run Composer without excluding vendor/ from source control so I thought I'd share how we did it so that anyone who wants to do so can learn from my experience!
TDD is dead. Long live testing by David Heinemeier Hansson
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html
It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better world of writing software. A mind hack to get you going with the practice of testing where no testing had happened before. It opened my eyes to the tranquility of a well-tested code base, and the bliss of confidence it grants those making changes to software.
Laravel and Angular Widgets e.g. Non SPA (Single Page Application) Pattern
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/160
BETA: This is a Code Heavy Read :)
Not all apps need to be an SPA (Single Page Application). Sure they have their place but in most cases the task might benefit from just a Blade template and Angular widget. This saves you from having to write an angular route which can be a tedious duplication of work. Also Blade is fast and fun to work with.
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enJanuary 18, 2016
Ditching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a team
Author: Grant Ammons
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.8hh5rddu0
The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We went from an ad-hoc process to Scrum, and used Scrum for a whole year. Scrum leveled us up as a team in terms of structure and process. But it caused major morale issues. Then we found Kanban. We implemented it and have never looked back.
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enJanuary 15, 2016
Then Benefits of Building a Clickable POC as a Developer
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/172
This will cover two things. One, how helpful it can be to make a clickable Proof of Concepts (POC), not just with images, or tools the spit out html but instead just enough javascript and base theme to help "sell" the idea, or more importantly to help Product Owners see the possibilities that are not too far out of reach. And the second, and maybe more important thing I will cover is that the developer has a lot to gain in taking on this seemingly non-coding path.
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enJanuary 13, 2016
Introducing Modelling by Example by Konstantin Kudryashov read by Alfred Nutile
Author: Konstantin Kudryashov
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: http://stakeholderwhisperer.com/posts/2014/10/introducing-modelling-by-example
"For the last year I have been experimenting with the new approach to a Behaviour-Driven Development, which could be summarised as "Ubiquitous Language is a thing again". The core premise of this approach is that if you take Ubiquitous Language seriously and push for it in your scenarios, you open the door to doing a Domain-Driven Design while you're doing Behaviour-Driven Development's red-green-refactor cycle. By embedding Ubiquitous Language in your scenarios, your scenarios naturally become your domain model, which you can use to develop the most important part of your application - a core domain."
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enJanuary 08, 2016
Put It All Into Version Control Even Composer!
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171
Some reasons why putting all library files into version control might be a good idea. You can read about it here as well https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171Why Side Projects Are Good For Me
Author: Alfred Nutile
Read By: Alfred Nutile
Original Source: http://alfrednutile.info/posts/170
First let me define what a “Side Project” is. In this case a “Side Project” is something you are not being paid for and something that you have complete control over....
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enJanuary 05, 2016