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Pierre Joye2012/09/17

Pierre Joye@pierrejoyepierre@php.net

PHP Core developerContributors to numerous OSS projects

Works with the ex-Dark ForcePortability fan

Topics•History•Status•Some useless stats•Tools, pointers and directions

Any PHP users around?Any Python users around?Any Ruby users around?Any Go users around?Any Scala users around?Any Red users around?

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b: 2 inc: func [i [integer!] return: [integer!]][

i + b ]

] a/inc 5 ;-- will return 7

“You are not a good developer if you

know only one language, even as

expert.”

Languages do not matter.

Any Linux users around?Any Windows users around?Any Mac users around?Any Solaris users around?Any Android users around?Any i* users around?

OSes do not matter.

Growing amount of clients

http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/19/the-evolution-of-the-computing-value-chain/

http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/19/the-evolution-of-the-computing-value-chain/

Mobile

http://w

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.asymco.com

/2012/06/19/the-evolution-of-the-com

puting-value-chain/

“No need for DOM abstraction libraries.”

“You don't have IE6 on mobile.”PhoneGap Day Quote

“Most mobile players are contributing to PhoneGap

except Apple. Something wrong with them?”

“Yep.”PhoneGap Day Quote

Pierre Joye

OSes do not matter anymore.

(take #2)

The Web is the (Open) Platform

HTML5

HTML5

(better)HTML + CSS3 + JS

==

•phonegap•Jquery •Dojo•Titanium•Sencha (touch, extjs, etc.)

Phonegap goals

. Make web 1st class app dev platform

. Cease to exist by becoming unnecessary shim

Server Anyone?

Platforms matter.

Cloud Computing!

(the new holly Grail)

Azure, AWS, Openstack, Linode,

SliceHost, AppEngine

More to come }:->

Aw Jeez, not this shit again! (take #2)

Moment of solitude

One goal, One Process, One team

DevOps

(or bringing Agility to all teams)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

Virtualization for the masses

$> vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/deb64.box$> vagrant init$> vagrant up

VeeWeehttps://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee

$> vagrant basebox templatesThe following templates are available:vagrant basebox define '' 'archlinux-i686'vagrant basebox define '' 'CentOS-4.8-i386'vagrant basebox define '' 'CentOS-5.6-i386'vagrant basebox define '' 'CentOS-5.6-i386-netboot'

$> vagrant basebox define 'debian-60' 'Debian-6.0.1a-amd64'$> vagrant basebox build 'debian-60‚$> vagrant box add 'debian-60' debian-60.box$> vagrant init 'debian-60'

StatsD

https://github.com/etsy/statsd

Fix the apps

App DBs

Opera Firefox Service ClientIE Service

Client

Services

SOAP Tpl BL

NoSql

Services

Node app

Node app SAPNginx

phpCouchbase

DBsServices

NoSql

Rails +ThinDNode

Consumers (apps, browsers, services)

JSON

Smaller, faster, flexible

More Controls. More Releases.

Adapt or die.

Decoupled

(content, storage, service, etc.)

Decoupled CMS

Demo

create.js

http://createjs.org/

Javascript

•Jasmine•Jasmine-node

•require.js•common.js

Questions?

Resources

References

http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/19/the-evolution-of-the-computing-value-chain/

Toolkits (mobile, desktop, JS, app)• http://phonegap.com/• http://jquery.org/• http://dojotoolkit.org/• http://www.appcelerator.com/• http://www.sencha.com/

Resources

Languages (mobile, desktop, JS, app)• http://www.php.net/• http://python.org/• http://www.ruby-lang.org/• http://www.red-lang.org/• http://golang.org/

Resources

Node.js/Javascript• DNode introduction,

http://substack.net/posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-Method-Invocation-for-Node-js-and-the-Browser

• DNode for PHP, http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/dnode-make_php_and_node-js_talk_to_each_other/

• https://github.com/substack/dnode-ruby• https://github.com/substack/dnode-perl• https://github.com/jesusabdullah/dnode-python• https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/dnode-java• http://mustache.github.com/• http://backbonejs.org/

Resources

Node.js/Javascript• https://github.com/substack/node-browserify• http://www.commonjs.org/• http://xcambar.github.com/shepherd-js/• http://requirejs.org/• http://backbonejs.org/• http://mustache.github.com/• http://createjs.org/• https://github.com/wikidocs/wikidocs-examples• http://uxebu.com/blog/2012/09/17/bonsai-fresh-from-the-pixelplant/

https://www.pixelplant.com/

Resources

Server/Dev/Infrastructure• http://vagrantup.com/• https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee• https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano• http://fabfile.org/ (fabric)• https://github.com/etsy/statsd• http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/

Resources

Server/Dev/Infrastructure/QA/Misc• http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-coremob/2012Sep/0021.html

(why html is slow for Facebook)• http://travis-ci.org/• http://vimeo.com/45633052 (Decoupled CMS talk, by @bergie)