Project Workflow Axel Jensen Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen.

Project Workflow

Axel Jensen

Copyright 2008 Axel Jensen

What we are doing


Project Workflow

• Team stuff

• Assembla.com– Trac– Subversion

• ANT

• General Workflow tips

• Coding Standards

Team stuff


Project Workflow

• Setup a Team– How to find people– Choosing work– Assigning work– Holding Meetings

Team stuff


Project Workflow

Setup a Team – How to Find People


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• 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”

Setup a Team – Choose Work


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• 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…

Setup a Team – Assign Work


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• 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.

Setup a Team – Holding Meetings


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• Holding Meetings– Readytalk.com– Acrobat.com– Free www.thebasementventures.com (not toll free)

http://www.thebasementventures.com/

Assembla.com


Project Workflow

• Assembla.com– Walk through it now.

Assembla.com


Project Workflow

• 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

Trac


Project Workflow

• Trac– Admin

• Create components, milestones, roadmap, priorities, etc…

– Create a ticket– Ticket Reports– Etc…

• Timeline• Wiki• Search

SVN


Project Workflow

• 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.

SVN


Project Workflow

• 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/

http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x/

SVN


Project Workflow

• 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

SVN


Project Workflow

• 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.

ANT


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• 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…

http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2008/04/adding_java_development_tools_1.html

SNIPPETS


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• Snippets are the SHIZNIT! In CFECLIPSE– http://axel.cfwebtools.com/Examples/oopCFUG/snippets.zip

– WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

http://axel.cfwebtools.com/Examples/oopCFUG/snippets.zip

MYLYN


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• 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…

Coding Standards


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• 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

http://www.blog.rivello.org/?p=159

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions

• Axel Jensen’s Blog– http://axelscript.com

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