Iain Hubbard, Development Manager @iainhubbard Joseph McDermott, Senior Developer @Joseph_McD
Jun 26, 2015
Iain Hubbard, Development Manager @iainhubbard
Joseph McDermott, Senior Developer @Joseph_McD
We help enterprise businesses develop
& improve ecommerce operations
using open source software
• Founded in 2008
• Located in the Northern Quarter, Manchester
• Magento Gold Solution Partner
• Technical agency focused on Magento Enterprise
• Team of 25 people
Featured Customers
Magento is an open-source
ecommerce solution, written
in PHP with a MySQL database
• Open source eCommerce platform
• Written in PHP using Zend Framework
• MySQL database
• MVC
• Its free! (well… some of it)
• Everything you need to sell online
• Modular architecture
• History of changes
• Somewhere to share your code
• Facilitates team work
- ie. same files, same time, different places
• Somewhere to browse your code
• Helps document changes
• Development workflow
• Backup
• Track down problems
• Manage your code efficiently
• Develop multiple features at the same time
• Allow you to go back if disaster strikes
• Know exactly what was changed, by who and when
• Code reviews
• Continuous integration
• Share code
• Deployments
• Don’t have time for version control
• 1 developer works alone on 1 project
• Teams email updated files to each other
• Keep history of files named xxx.bak1, xxx.bak2
• Developers “pass the spoon” around
• Manual FTP of files to deploy
• We use SVN (for now)
• Many developers work together on many projects
• Any developer can work on any file on any project at any time
• We use a hosted solution, Beanstalk, which we’ll introduce in the workshop
• Branch for development, staging and trunk
• All developers work automatically deployed from development
• Client signs off work on staging
• We deploy to production from trunk
• We create short lived feature branches as required
• We know every change to every file in every deployment, ever
• Problem with a website, we start with what changed and who changed it
• Lead developer can easily monitor important changes or new starters
• Our clients have access to review and can also commit changes
• Distributed vs Centralised
• Git is distributed
• SVN is centralised
• Versions of truth differences
• There are others but we focusing on Git and SVN
• Distributed
• Created to support development of the Linux kernel
• Features
- Distributed development
- Efficient handling of large projects
- Don’t need internet connection
• Many versions of the truth
• Centralised
• Created to fix the problems found in CVS
• Features
- Centralised development
- Branches are cheap
- Requires network connection
• Single version of the truth
CV Deadline: TBC Start Date: Jul/Sept
• Basic Requirements
• Object-oriented programming and design skills
• Attention to detail!
• Demonstrable programming ability
• Desirable Skills
• PHP
• MVC
• SQL
• Linux/Unix
• jQuery, Prototype or other JavaScript experience
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