10 things you should do on every web project - starting with source control up to build scripts. Delivered at barcamplondon3

1. Things You Probably Don’t Do Or trying to make project automation sexy
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2. 1
Source Control SVN, CVS, Git, Bazaar
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3. 2
Markup Validation HTML, XML, RSS, Atom, JSON
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4. W3C HTML Validator
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5. 3
CSS Validation
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6. W3C CSS Validator
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7. 4
Broken Links
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8. W3C Link Checker
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9. 5
Performance YSlow, httperf
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10. YSlow
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11. 6
Maintainable Javascript JSLint
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12. 7
Unit Tests
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13. “Unit testing is a procedure used to validate that
individual units of source code are working properly.
A unit is the smallest testable part of an application.
Wikipedia
Unit Tests?
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14. 8
Functional Tests Selenium
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15. “Functional tests are written from a user's
perspective. These tests confirm that the system
does what users are expecting it to.
IBM
Functional Tests?
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16. 9
Asset Compilation
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17. 10
Build Scripts Ant, Capistrano, Phing, Scripting language of choice
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18. Webistrano
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19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mknowles/47457221/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9229859@N02/1637152839/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/267611943/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_ellis/338755109/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/265899784/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mundoo/313716925/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woordenaar/1586806527/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/250617151/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0php/530526644/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfitzgerald/1798757377/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10ch/229551850/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philocrites/299609977/
Thanks Again Flickr!
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20. Any Questions?
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