Presented on May 10th 2014 at WordCamp NL, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

http://2014.netherlands.wordcamp.org/

Ever had to go back to code you did over a year ago ? And… did you like it ?

We all love well documented, testable, easily readable and understandable code. But how do you write it ? and what tools are available to help you ? What can you do now to make your life and the life of your successor(s) and users easier ?

Learn how to avoid a build up of technical debt and make your good code awesome!

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If you download the slides, the links should be clickable. Unfortunately they don't seem to be in the online deck, so here's a list of the links:

Slide 10 Types of Technical Debt: http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

Slide 11 How Quality affects software costs: http://www.sqgne.org/presentations/2010-11/Jones-Nov-2010.pdf

Slide 12 PHPUnderControl: http://phpundercontrol.org/ Sonar: http://www.sonarsource.com/

Slide 17 - Debugging tools: XDEBUG: http://xdebug.org/ PHP lint: http://www.icosaedro.it/phplint/ JS lint + hint: http://www.jslint.com/ , http://www.javascriptlint.com/ , http://www.jshint.com/ Debug Bar plugins: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=debug+bar Firebug: http://getfirebug.com/ Profile: https://github.com/joehoyle/Time-Stack Profile plugins: http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

Slide 18 - Educate yourself: WP Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/ WP Dev Reference: http://developer.wordpress.org/reference/ PHP manual: http://php.net/manual Jquery manual: http://api.jquery.com/ phpcheatsheets.com: http://phpcheatsheets.com/ OWASP top 10: http://owasp.org/

Slide 21 WP Coding standards: http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/ and https://github.com/Automattic/PhpStorm-Resources

Slide 22 PHP Code Sniffer: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/

Slide 23 WP ruleset for PHPCS: https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/

Slide 26 Webbased PHP code sniffer: http://www.webcodesniffer.net/

Slide 27 PHP cross-version compatibility ruleset for PHPCS: https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility

Slide 32 WP Documentation standards: http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/inline-documentation-standards/php-documentation-standards/

Slide 37 PHPDocumentor: http://www.phpdoc.org/ PHPDox: http://phpdox.de/ WP Documentor (proof of concept): https://github.com/jrfnl/wp-hook-documentor

Slide 41 PHPUnit: http://phpunit.de/

Slide 43 WP handbook on automated testing: http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/automated-testing/ WP unit test suite: https://unit-tests.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/tests/ WP testing with mocking: https://github.com/10up/wp_mock

Slide 47 pDepend: http://pdepend.org/ PHPLOC: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phploc

Slide 48 PHP Mess Detector: http://phpmd.org/

Slide 49 PHP Copy Paste Detector: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd

Slide 50 PHP Dead Code Detector: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpdcd

Slide 55 Git hooks: http://git-scm.com/docs/githooks.html and http://git-scm.com/book/en/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks Phing: http://www.phing.info/ Grunt: http://gruntjs.com/ Capistrano: http://capistranorb.com/ Sonar: http://www.sonarsource.com/ Jenkins: http://jenkins-ci.org/ Travis: https://travis-ci.org/

Slide 57 Bonus link: http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Slide 58 Geek and Poke: http://geek-and-poke.com/ OSNews: http://osnews.com/comics