Keynote in English - UK at PHP South Africa
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Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/02e50
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I love to get better as a developer and when I get rewarded for that even better! In this session we'll have a look at ten tools that make our lives as developers easier and along the way allow us to become better as a developer. Services like Github or Bitbucket allow us to communicate with one another about code while Scrutinizer, Code-Climate or Insight can give us valuable informations on how to improve our coding skills and easily bring our code to a better level. Suddenly tedious tasks like writing unittests, reducing cyclomatic complexity and adding documentation can become entertaining and rewarding. All this because we all strive to get high marks, 100% or a green button. So let's see what the benefits of the different tools are and how we can integrate them into our build-chain.
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This was a very interesting talk, that took a turn for the better when Andreas started talking about various tools one could use to help gamify ones growth as a developer. I was expecting this to be more a light hearted talk and not one where I'd be bookmarking so many pages.
This reminded me of a time when I used Beanstalk as a VCS, and it had weekly commit stats, and I always wanted to be on top, so I could relate to what Andreas was talking about.
This talk would greatly benefit any developers who are interested in testing as well as starting a project (open source or not). The insights and ideas were inspiring.
Overall a really interesting talk, and glad got to hear it.
Extremely interesting talk. Gamification for developers mitigates the boredom that often comes with writing tests. The tools Andreas mentioned in his talks are well worth looking into. Overall a useful talk.
Really interesting discussion! Awesome!
Development is and should be fun! If its not, this is an awesome way to get your game on!!
I really enjoyed the talk.
I enjoyed the different approaches you spoke about, but I feel like the talk is missing a conclusion where multiple aspects are combined into an app or system that allows one to keep track of them.
I’m reminded of the SilverStripe ecosystem (http://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/silverstripe/sqlite3 for example) that offers a score for each module. The score is composed of different metrics, like code quality (tests, conformance to a recommended standard, included docs) so that high-quality modules surface more easily.
It would be great if something similar existed, to be able to see how well I am doing in a particular project or all my open source projects. That’s not a failure of this talk, but I do feel that the talk needs to resolve in some ways of drawing all these individual strands together. The talk doesn’t otherwise sell the benefits enough for my tastes.
As a team lead, I feel like adding some gamification into our dev process may just help add a little more fun to the sometimes difficult job of meeting dead lines and pushing out features. This is another talk I will be coming back to the slides of to steal the URL's.