Joomla! Day Chicago Development, Tips and Tricks presented by Steven Pignataro

1. Joomla Development Steven Pignataro – CEO/Partner ‘corePHP’

2. Intro

4. How many have used SVN or GIT?

5. How many of you are developers?

6. How many of you are experts?

8. Have higher quality / improved standards of released products / web sites

10. Classes should be given descriptive names. Avoid using abbreviations where possible.

11. Separate each word with underscore.

12. We use underscores instead of Camel Case (like Joomla!)

13. Private Class members are preceded with _

16. Make sure all your developers use the same patterns and have there IDE or favorite text editor setup properly to interpret the code.

17. Some example references:

18. http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

19. http://area51.phpbb.com/docs/30x/coding-guidelines.html

21. Handling of the repository

22. Size of repositories

23. Maturity of the repository

25. Copy of revision code

26. Apply immediate backups to a last known working revision

27. See who performed the update

29. You can use GIT off the grid – instead of being connected to the network

30. GIT is fast and leaner then other systems

33. Software based code review

34. Blame

35. Comments

37. Cornerstone (mac)

38. Eclipse / Zend Studio

40. Because of how PHP5 handles code database connection errors can occur similar to the following if using a die();

42. Example would be http://www.corephp.com/members

45. Configure to use FTP for backup

46. Will backup to the new server that all the data was backed up to

48. Note how /* */ starts at the top and bottom

50. Load the following code at the bottom of your index.php (last line)

54. Using products like jomCDN or other CDN solutions will help decrease the speed of your site and increase your score.

55. Why?

57. Questions?

58. THE END There is no end when the beginning is so near!