Rapid Application Design (RAD) refers to a software development methodology that uses minimal planning and rapid prototyping, such as Agile and Scrum. It promotes strong collaboration between business owners and developers. Pros include dynamic requirements gathering and unit testing involvement. Cons include reliance on cohesive teams and less formal decision making. RAD uses tools like Eclipse, iPlotz, MySQL Workbench, ActiveCollab, and Subversion. Frameworks include BlueprintCSS, JQuery, and CakePHP. The RAD process involves wireframing, ERD design, converting frames to CSS, using JavaScript frameworks, finding plugins, and choosing PHP frameworks that follow best practices. Source code control and testing are also part of organizing a RAD

1. Rapid Application Design
by Ahmad Amran b Kapi
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2. Who am I ?

5. What is Rapid Application Design ?
refers to a type of software development methodology that
uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping - e.g
Agile , XP, JAD, RAD, Scrum, LD

6. Comparison from traditional Development

7. What is Pros and Cons
Pros
Promotes strong collborative atmosphere and dynamic
gathering or requirements. Business owner actively participate
in prototyping, writing test cases and performing unit teting
Cons
Dependency on strong cohesive teams and invidual comitment
to the project. Decision making relies on the feature
functionality team and a commual decision-making process
with lesser degree. Depends on superstar developer.

8. What tools needed to do RAD
Tools
Eclipse PDT
iPlotz - Wireframe
MySQL Workbench - ERD
ActiveCollab - Project Management
Subversion - Source code control
Frameworks
BlueprintCSS - CSS Design
Jquery - Javascript
CakePHP - PHP Framework

9. 1st RAD Step
Wear something RADical !!

10. 1st RAD Step
Wireframe tools - iPlotz

11. 2nd Step
- MySQL Workbench - ERD Design

12. blueprintcss.org
CSS Framework
Grid for layouts
Form styles
Print Styles
CSS Reset that eliminate discrepancies across browsers

13. 3rd step - convert from wireframe to CSS

14. - Javascript framework
Simplifies HTML Document traversing (DOM)
Event handling
Animation
AJAX Interactions
Standardize all the javascript call on all browser

15. 4th Step
Find any plugins that related to your projects

16. PHP Framework
Rapid Application Design
Clean IP (MIT)
Best Practices
Security
Authentication
Session
Mail
Access Level
Javascript Generator / AJAX
Convention over Configuration

17. Why use all the framework ?
Standardization
Staff development
Didn't reinvent the wheel
Fast
You look good ;)

18. How to organize all the project tools ?

20. Source code control / Version control

21. Source code control / Version control

22. Code Document -
Click to add content

23. Testing - UI

24. Testing - Code

25. Debug / Profiling

26. Question ?
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