This document provides an overview of an organization and information for developers. It introduces key people in the organization across different departments. It describes the culture as smart, agile, innovative but also demanding. It outlines the typical development lifecycle process including requirements, design, implementation, stabilization and release every 3 weeks. It provides details on using version control, building and deploying code as well as tips for development, documentation and terminology.

1. Welcome~欢迎~ようこそ

2. About me
 Tony Shao ~ tshao @tonishao
 From 2009.7, Sr.Dev in T
 Involved in projects for varies of pipelines
 Recruiting
 >3 years SDE in Microsoft, for msnbc.com
 Interested in
 Web standard – Front-end
 Concurrency Programming
 Agile
 Soft skills
 Hobby
 Any non-physical exercises
 Japanese songs

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4. Agenda
 People you must know
 Organization
 Culture
 A day for developer
 Make your life easier

6. Bill Fisher
President,EF Englishtown
CEO of EF China

7. Enio Ohmaye
Chief Technology and
Experience Officer

8. Daniel Wallmark
Vice President of
Technology

9. Adrian Gonzalez
Software Architect

10. Simon Liao
Senior DBA

11. Jed Li
QA Manager & Release
Manager

12. Organization
 Central Technology – Daniel Wallmark
 Operations – Margaret Zhang
 Product (School) – Brain McKay
 B2C (Sales/Mktg) / Systems / B2S – Eric Azumi
 Community – Rasmus R.
 CLT – Virginie C.
 Smart – Wendy Bao
 Mobile - Madeleine

14. Technology
 Daniel Wallmark
 Tech quality
 Website uptime
 Releases
 Hardware

15. Operations
 Margaret Zhang
 Teacher Management
 Teacher Tools products & projects
 Customer Relations Team

16. School
 Brain McKay
 School Products & Projects
 Courseware
 Tools
 Social
 School Content

17. System
 Eric Azumi
 E-commerce Products & Projects
 Internal systems
 Email English 2.0

18. Community
 Rasmus Rasmusson
 Community Products & Projects
 Freetown

19. Others
 CLT (B2B)
 Virginie Cailleau – Gigi
 Smart
 Wendy Bao
 B2S
 Jenny-Ann Sundbro
 Cehk
 Elliot Davernas

20. Englishtown Customers
 Student Body Segmentation – June 2010
COEF
CEHK
CLT 37%
ILAB 24%
B2C 19%
SMART 13%

21. Good / Bad

22. Culture
 Smart / Agile
 Innovation / Cutting-edge
 Aggressive / Demanding
 Integrity / Open
 Respect / Diversity

23. For all smart developers

24. SDLC - Lifecycle
 It’s different everywhere
 Waterfall / Agile
 When are we involved
 Requirement Analysis (occasionally)
 Design
 Implementation
 Stabilization
 Release

25. Release Process
 Every 3 weeks
 Site version – week number + subversion
 40-1
 43-1
 …
 Critter
 http://critter.ef.com/
 Why not TFS?
 GL – Green light
 Why developers?!

26. Release Process (Cont’d)
 To live
 Local machine – Dev DB
 QA – QA DB
 STG – STG DB
 Live – Live DB

27. Development
 Set up local environment
 Follow the wiki steps, but be smart 
 Be equipped
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 No crack software
 No beta version (??!)
 TFS
 Get latest version -> check-out -> made changes -> build successfully – check-in
(everything or nothing) / shelving
 Build to QA
 Send building request on QA
 http://autobuild.englishtown.com/
 Recycle IIS when needed
 http://qa.englishtown.com/tools/IISManager/Default.aspx
 Build resource files (image, flash, etc.) to QA

28. Development (Cont’d)
 Database
 SSMS
 Troubleshooting
 EF Error Log (US/CN)
 Categorized by application
 Full context
 Full stacktrace
 User messages
 SQL profiler
 Fiddler
 Event Log

29. Stabilization / Release
 Bugfree
 http://10.17.252.185/BugFree/Login.php
 RR in critter
 It’s a pain….
 Be careful of…
 CCL

30. Documentation
 …

32. Tips…
 Don’t sleep here, go downstairs…
 Review your emails before sending, and refactor
 Lunch together makes a difference
 Come to office early
 Be patient
 Well prepared
 Study English!!
 Ask if you don’t know

33. How to
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34. Terms
 Pipeline
 CCL – Content Configuration Layer
 Blurb
 CLT – Corporate Learning Technology

35. Q & A

36. Thank you