Create your own

OS project

Guillaume FD

Software architect (C# ... for banks)

 

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Creator of ZikMe.org

Dev mentor, StartUper advisor

Fullstack Ruby on Rails freelance

Why create your OS project ?

Fall down as much as you need

...learn to get back up

Work on your project

1-2 hours a week (or more !)

  • LeProjet  (Project Manager)
  • ToDo List
  • Photo Gallery
  • Blog
  • ...

... and make it public on GitHub !

Actually, try a project with different subjects to work on:

  • Authentication (+ OAuth!)
  • Roles
  • BackOffice
  • File Mgnt
  • Image display/mgnt
  • Payment
  • Search Engine
  • TESTS !
  • Deployment
  • I18n
  • API communication
  • Background jobs
  • RealTime (IM ?)

OS is BIG help:

Everything    4    FREE !!

                      Travis.org         4          automated tests...

                          Heroku         4          deploy on success ;)

                CodeClimate         4          clean code !

                    PullReview         4          better code !

                           Inch CI         4          better documentation
                                                ...

                           Github         4          REVIEWS !

Portfolio

  • TDD
  • DDD
  • Pivotal Tracker

Shows your way of coding / thinking, your methodology(ies)

Thank you !

fauredumont@gmail.com

Slack: @guillaume_fd

Create your own OS project

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Create your own OS project

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