1. What I Learned about
Mobile-First by Not Going
Mobile-First
Clark Everetts
Zend Technologies, Inc

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What are We Going to Talk About, Anyway?
•Background
– Transitioning from Freelancer to full-time Zender
– Reducing Client Base (Target: 0)
– Interesting History
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“What you want can't be done”
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Left Me! (whew...)
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Came Back?!
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Baaaad Timing
– Mobile-development: no better time than the present
• Talk is NOT a detailed tutorial
– Run-through of the desktop site
– Mobile application progress report
– To-Dos
– My thoughts and few suggestions

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Who am I?
•Clark Everetts
– Professional Services Consultant for Zend Technologies
– Onsite and Remote Consulting – Linux, IBM iSeries, Windows
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Software Architecture Audits and Code Reviews
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Performance Audits
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Continuous Delivery Assessments
– Online / Onsite Training in PHP, ZF, Studio, Server, Certification, etc.
– SmartStarts: Training and Onsite Guided Development
•Past Life: Independent Consultant (2002 - 2012)
– Web Sites and Web Applications
– Contract Instructor for Zend
•Past, Past Life: Contractor for US Army and NASA (1990 - 2002)
– Interceptor Ground Control Software; Green Screen Db Applications
– Space Station: Real-time, Embedded Software; Science Platforms,
Life Support

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Who are You?
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Your role: Manager, developer, stakeholder/decision-maker?
● Size: Small to large companies; small to large dev teams
● Have you built one or more applications?
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Building one now? How far along are you?
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What challenges did you face / are you facing?
● What tools did you use?
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What did you do before you started?

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•Florist-FloristDirectory.com
– Verified database of independent florists in U.S.
– Referral Network for order fulfillment for sending
flowers
– Owner is 73-year young lady
•Business Model
– 15,000+ free listings with basic info
– “Standard” listings with more info
– “Deluxe” listings with even more info
•Public-facing site for searches, Admin Screens for
processing applications and making changes
Background : The Desktop Web Site

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Let's take a look ...
The Desktop Web Site: Live

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Quick Detour: First Install of Apigility Skeleton
$ composer create-project -sdev
--repository-url="https://packages.zendframework.com/"
zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton ./apigility-skeleton
Installing zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton (dev-master
1932c09119de36edb9eb986c2f9f921e54dc4238)
- Installing zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton (dev-master master)
Cloning master
Created project in ./apigility-skeleton
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate 32 bytes) in
phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Rule.php on line 62
PHP Stack trace: ….
I need to investigate.

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Apigility: First Install of Skeleton
Composer.phar contains:
// ...
$memoryLimit = trim(ini_get('memory_limit'));
// Increase memory_limit if it is lower than 512M
if ($memoryLimit != -1 && $memoryInBytes($memoryLimit) < 512 * 1024 * 1024) {
@ini_set('memory_limit', '512M');
}
unset($memoryInBytes, $memoryLimit);
// ...
Figure this out later.
Back to presentation...

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•Create CCM Project in Studio (with built-in example code)
– Server Project (florists-ccm)
– Mobile Project (m.florists-ccm)
•Deploy Application to Zend Server
•Test the Example Project
– Test a RESTful Method Route
– Web Mobile Emulator
•Decisions
•To-dos, thoughts, suggestions
Cloud-Connected Mobile: Process Overview

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Cloud-Connected Mobile: Test Web Svc Method
Server-side gateway.xml

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Cloud-Connected Mobile: Test Mobile Interface
Mobile Project name
or index.html file

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•Looked at web site code
– Incorporate ZF1 web site code into ZF2 CCM backend?
– Write REST controllers in ZF1 app and change mobile
front-end to point to them?
•Controllers: Admin, Search, User, Index, Error
•Models
– Db_Table: Florists, User, Roles
– Db_Table_Row: for Florists Db_Table
– Entitity: User
– Authentication Service
•Unit Tests
Scope out the Territory

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•Improper MVC - Separation of Concerns
•Hardcoded Dependencies
•Models tightly coupled to database
•Unit Tests
– Too few, poor coverage
– One not even under version control
•The sound you hear is a mobile application development
effort screeching to a halt, as a refactoring effort begins.
•Let's look at the code now...
Noticed Some Problems

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•Conduct an audit of your code
•Refactor to better coding practices
– Proper MVC separation
– Service Layer to Support API
– More Unit Tests with real code coverage
•Migrate Application to ZF2
•Now is the time to look at Apigility
– Apigility “0.0.1” was Zend Server Gateway
To-Dos, Thoughts, and Suggestions

15. Thank You!
Please give constructive feedback at
https://joind.in/9076
Email: clark.e@zend.com
https://github.com/clarkphp
Twitter: @clarkphp