Eureka! … Now What?

Owen Buckley

The Greenhouse I / O

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Owen Buckley

• Principal UI Architect (Clarivate Analytics)
• Founder (The Greenhouse I/O)
• Open Source (Project Evergreen / Greenwood)
• Producer (Analog Studios)

@thegreenhouseio

My goal is not build the next best thing.

My goal is to help you and your team build the next best thing.

A preamble...

Agenda

• Measure Twice, Cut Once

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• Make It So

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• Going Retro

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• Case Study

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• Open Forum / Participation

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• Closing Thoughts

Measure Twice,

Cut Once

Start With Why

• A definition of “done” (and when)
• Sketch it out
• Avoid solutions in search of problems
• Conduct a site audit
• It depends….

Make It So

One foot after the other

• Start a README
• Don’t guess, learn the art of debugging
• Remember to take a walk / break
• Rubber ducking
• Save early, safe often (use version control!)

Going Retro

Measuring Progress

• Review progress and expectations
• Appreciate a well groomed backlog
• Be proud of each victory, learn from each misstep
• Understand law of diminishing returns
• Leverage the community / open source

Case Study

(Sticker Picker)

Sticker Picker

Requirements

• Allow user to take image with their phone with the app
• On image capture, have the app send the image to a backend service
• The app should process the image and identify an associated brand / identity
• The app should then display the name and a link to the brand / identity on the page

Action Item

• Develop PWA w/ picture taking capabilities (mobile only)
• Create a (cloud function?) to accept image uploads over HTTP
• Image upload script should process the image for matches (reverse image search?)
• Image processing script should return a response w/
• Name
• Home page URL
• Confidence score (nice to have)

Sticker Picker - Network Diagram

Open Forum

Community

• Brian Jepson: Content Manager LinkedIn and co-founder of Providence Geeks
• Paul Barry: Frontend Technical Architect @kenzanmedia
• Jon Stockdill (@jon077): CTO @kenzanmedia (aka Donny, who loved bowling 🎳)
• Tim Eagan (@TimothyEagan): Software Engineer and ProvJS Meetup co-founder
• Siu-Li (@siulik): Rhode Island Virtual Reality (RIVR) Org and Meetup co-founder

Closing Thoughts

Resources

• Hackerrank
• 7 Absolute Truths Unlearned as junior developer (article)
• StackOverflow: How To Ask a Good Question
• Trello
• GitHub
• Clean Code (book)

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Thank You!

(and remember to have fun)

Owen Buckley | owenbuckley13@gmail.com | @thegreenhouseio