Christoph Dreams Of Simple Code (Laravel Vienna Meetup)

Since the early days of my coding career, I have always thought about improving my code. I learned as much as I could, and I tried all the best practices I found: The Repository Pattern, Factories, DRY, SOLID, TDD, you name it.

The more I learned about complex strategies and solutions, the more I noticed that those principles did not serve me and my applications.

Today, after ten years of coding experience, I found my perfect way of programming, and it's through simple code.

In this talk, I will showcase the power of simple code and how it lets me work fast on applications while providing clean, readable, and testable code. Moreover, it makes applying changes and new features easy, so your code can grow steadily with your application's needs. The only downside is that simple code is not always easy to write. Let me help you with that today.

Transcript

1. HELLO HELLO
4. Christoph Rumpel DEVELOPER - VIENNA @CHRISTOPHRUMPEL
7. Since I was born I dreamed about simple code Chapter 1
8. Since I was born I dreamed about simple code Chapter 1
10. • Since I was a child I dreamed about how to improve my code... I dreamed of...
12. And also of... ✦ Band: No More Encore
14. 2009 - 2012 ✦ University
15. 2009 ✦ Age 24 ✦ First lines of code ✦ PHP 5.2 ✦ Laravel was not released yet.
16. Since I started coding, I dreamed about better code. Chapter 1
18. First paid project contact.php
19. First paid project contact.php
23. Good code is working code.
25. ✦ PHP 5.4 ✦ CodeIgniter First side project
26. First side project highscore_v.php
27. I was willing to learn
28. I was willing to learn
29. I was willing to learn
30. I was willing to learn
31. I was willing to learn
32. I was willing to learn
34. First job as developer
36. ✦ Famulous ✦ PHP 5.6 ✦ Laravel 5.3 Another side project
37. ✦ Famulous ✦ PHP 5.6 ✦ Laravel 5.3 Another side project
38. ✦ Famulous ✦ PHP 5.6 ✦ Laravel 5.3 Another side project
40. 🙈
41. I was still willing to learn
42. I was still willing to learn
43. I was still willing to learn
44. I was still willing to learn
45. I was still willing to learn
47. I realized something
48. They said, I followed.
49. I'm not building Facebook.
50. It depends!
51. What code do I dream of? Chapter 2
53. ✦ Decide the projects to work on ✦ Decide the clients to work with ✦ Quality over quantity Founded my own one-man company
54. ✦ Meetups ✦ Conferences ✦ Open Source ✦ Blog Working in public
55. Surround yourself with smart AND positive people
57. ✦ Syntax ✦ Simplicity ✦ Environment ✦ Dev UX
58. We developers are important too!
59. Refactoring to Collections
60. Teaching
61. Teaching
62. Teaching
63. Teaching
64. Tailwind CSS
66. Today I dream of simple code Chapter 3
67. ✦ Easy to read ✦ Easy to understand ✦ Less Code ✦ Tested code For me simple code means
68. Easy to read ✦ Array manipulation
69. Easy to read ✦ Array manipulation
70. Easy to read BEFORE ✦ Array manipulation
71. Easy to read ✦ Refactor to collection AFTER
72. Easy to read ✦ Descriptive methods BEFORE
73. Easy to read ✦ Descriptive methods BEFORE AFTER
74. Easy to read ✦ Descriptive methods BEFORE
75. Easy to read ✦ Descriptive methods AFTER BEFORE
76. Easy to read ✦ IDE BEFORE
77. Easy to read ✦ Customized IDE AFTER
78. Easy to understand ✦ Facades
79. Easy to understand ✦ Facades
80. Easy to understand ✦ Facades
81. Less code BEFORE ✦ PHPUnit
82. Less code ✦ PEST BEFORE AFTER
83. Tested code ✦ Tests from Larastreamers
84. ✦ Definitely NOT simple to write ✦ Definitely NOT less code ✦ BUT ✦ Easy to change/maintain ✦ Easy to hand over to someone else (future proof) Tested code
85. ✦ Easy to read ✦ Easy to understand ✦ Less Code ✦ Tested code For me simple code means
86. ✦ Quality of my projects ✦ For my future self ✦ For my clients and colleagues ✦ Challenging myself Why am I doing all of this?
87. ✦ Should you use Facades now? ✦ Should you write tests now? ✦ Should you use Laravel now? ✦ Should you... What about you?
88. Who am I to tell YOU what to do?
89. What code do you dream of?
90. Goodbye