Project Workflow

Project Workflow Setup a Team – How to Find People • How to find people • Hire people on trial tasks • Common Objections: • “I need deliverables, I can’t risk it with a new guy” • Hire two guys… • “Its too much work to specify” • “My systems are too complex for a quick trial” Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow Setup a Team – Choose Work • Choose Work • Team members experience • Advanced team members • give them first crack at the to do list. • talk to them with the “you know what your doing” attitude • Junior members • They need more attention, treat them with courtesy, and guide them… give them a chance… Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow Setup a Team – Assign Work • Assign Work • Single Leader (team lead) • End goal may not be “clear” to everyone • A “leader” is in place to make the task “work” • Self organizing team • Team has the ability to lead itself • The vision is clearly defined and easily understood. Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow Assembla.com • Start a space • A space is a place that holds your tickets and svn. It’s usually the project like “CompanyXYZ-AdminTool” • Configure a space • Invite team • Wait a couple hours to make sure email is flowing Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow SVN • SVN • Repository for code, use it for backup, and or code referencing. • Every time you commit your code to subversion, it gets a revision #. • You can reference that revision number and check that revision out to look at the code at that point. Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow SVN • SVN • TortoiseSVN • http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads • I use this to initially put up the project to the repository (but you don’t have to, I find it easier on a windows machine to do this) • Use subclipse to pull it down and make sure everything stays in sync • http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x/ Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow SVN • SVN Verbage • Repository (common) • Thing that holds your code base, consider this a “folder” • checkout (common) • When you want to get the versioned code from the repository • Commit (common) • This is one of the MOST COMMON used, its when you have made code changes, and need to commit them to the repository. • update (common) • You want to grab the latest from the repository • export • When you want to get an (UN)versioned copy of the code Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow SVN • SVN trac commiting • THESE MAYBE BE ASSEMBLA SPECIFIC • Update Trac tickets from SVN comments. • Use Closes #4 to close ticket 4. "closed", "close", "fix", "fixed", and "fixes" will also close a ticket. • "Re #4", "references", "refs" and "see" will add a comment to the target ticket. Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow ANT • ANT • xml scripting language, usually used for deployment, and or automating tasks • Comes with the Java Development Tools • DOESN’T COME DIRECTLY WITH STAND ALONE VERSION OF FLEX BUILDER • http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2008/04/adding_java_development_tools_1.html • Use it to deploy applications to a testing server programmatically • Example: In that deployment script you could have it update a svn repo, and zip up the code and ftp it off site… so it could automate all three tasks into a simple click. • WARNING TO TALK WITH SVN AND FTP, YOU NEED SOME ANT PLUGINS FOR THAT TO WORK RIGHT… Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow MYLYN • Mylyn (take it easy, I’m no mylyn expert) • Plugin for eclipse • Hooks has plugins for trac and jira, bugzilla, and one more…. • Create local tasks • Focus on your workweek • Can integrate with subversion, but not sure how… Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow Coding Standards • Flex and CF Coding Standards • Sams Consulting Coding standards • Adobe's open source coding standars • Other Coding standard notes • CF - Ben Nadel coding standards • CF - Macromedia 2005 coding standards - old but not a whole lot of coding standard docs out there for cf • Prepend vars and Alphabetize properties (getters/setters) • Boolean (is/has) • Array’s (a) • (cf)Queries’s (q) • Dates(date) (example, “dateCreated”, “dateLastUpdated”) • XML (xml) • (flex) ArrayCollections (ac) • (flex) XMLListCollections (xlc) • getters go before setters in your code, alphabetize if you have more than 4 Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

Project Workflow