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Francesca Krihely: On the Developer Experience
by Chris Cornutt May 03, 2013 @ 09:22:07
In a new post to her site Francesca Krihely starts looking at the developer experience - how developers relate to your service and product and what kinds of things you need to be doing to help engage them.
I had a great brainstorm a few weeks back with the members of the Developer Evangelists meetup on the topic of the User Journey, or as I'll call it now, the Developer Experience. The main problem we wanted to solve was how we convert new users into experts or awesoms users. In many ways, a Community Manager and/or Developer Evangelist is responsible for driving user adoption and making users successful, so this is a topic near and dear to all of our hearts. I walked away with three key things that help improve the developer experience: Great Product, Great Support and Empowerment.
This post talks about the first point - the "great product" - and notes that, if the product isn't useful and enjoyable to use, even developers won't bother with it. She also talks some about the need for quality documentation and how it can be seen as a sort of "marketing" to developers.
Work on making your product fit for an awesome developer experience. If you build it, they will come.
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Lorna Mitchell's Blog: Retrieving Product Attributes from Magento's V2 API
by Chris Cornutt July 12, 2010 @ 08:28:14
Lorna Mitchell has posted a sort of follow-up to her previous post about accessing the Magento A{I to pull information about products from the application. In this new post she takes it a step further and shows how to get attributes from those products.
I've been working with the API for Magento in recent weeks and I had a bit of a struggle explaining to the V2 API which attributes of a product I wanted to retrieve. Actually I had issues talking to the V2 API at all, but that's a different post so I'll skate over those for now. Instead I thought I'd share (or rather, record for the next time I have the same problem!) how to specify which attributes about a product to retrieve.
She figured out that you could use the info method for the product_catalog call and specify the attributes you want. Her code example shows how to fetch the title, description, a shorter description and the price of an item.
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Community News: Adobe Developer Week Starts May 10th
by Chris Cornutt May 05, 2010 @ 11:19:51
As is mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, the Adobe Developer Week will be starting up on Monday, May 10th and will offer free sessions for developers interested in learning about Adobe products.
During Developer Week, learn about the Adobe Flash Platform, including Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash Player, and how it integrates with Adobe Creative Suite 5 technologies. This weeklong event features free, live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions.
You can find out more information about the sessions offered and how to register for them on this page of the Adobe website.
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Builder.com.au: 10 questions to ask when selecting open source products for your enterprise
by Chris Cornutt December 21, 2009 @ 17:43:33
If you're looking around for software to fill the needs of your company or group and your sights fall on Open Source software, Builder.com.au has a few suggestions for you to consider.
All open source projects, by definition, provide the end user with certain perpetual rights and freedoms in using, studying, modifying and redistributing the product. However, there is a lot of inconsistency in terms of the product quality, the governance model and the availability of support. Thus, when selecting open source components for your enterprise, it is important to do some background checks to ensure the open source product you have selected is compatible with your enterprise business model and IT standards. Below are 10 questions you can ask to evaluate open source maturity.
Among things on their list to consider are:
- Are the open source licence terms compatible with my business requirements?
- How well is the product adopted by users?
- How is this project governed and how easily can I influence the road map?
- Will the product scale to my enterprise's requirements?
- Are there regular security patches?
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Sameer Borate's Blog: Accessing Amazon Product Advertising API
by Chris Cornutt August 24, 2009 @ 10:52:04
Sameer Borate recently posted this new look at hooking your PHP application into the Amazon Product Advertising API to use the updated key system Amazon has put in place.
In this post we will see how to access the Amazon Product Advertising API from PHP. Amazon has recently changed (from 15th Aug '09) the authentication mechanism for accessing their API which must now be signed with your Amazon keys. Unsigned requests will be rejected by Amazon. Note that the code uses the hash_hmac() hash function which is only available for PHP versions 5.1.2 and above, so the code will not work for versions below that.
The full code, including an example if it in action - connecting to the API and searching for the DVD of "X-Men Origins". The full code of his class is included, perfect for cut and pasting.
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Job Posting: Kavi Seeks Product Development Engineer (Portland, OR)
by Chris Cornutt August 12, 2008 @ 11:14:29
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Kavi |
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Portland, OR |
| Title |
Product Development Engineer |
| Summary |
This full-time, on site position with the Product Development team is responsible for the development and support of Kavi's products, including design specifications, code implementation, and the ongoing support of released products. The Product Dev. Engineer works closely with other team members throughout all stages of the product development life cycle to ensure well engineered solution are provided to Kavi's customers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop well engineered applications that are functional, maintainable and meet the requirements defined by product management
- Participate in the creation of a design specification, including data modeling and functional behavior
- Responsible for all engineering aspects of the applications, including security, scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Work as member of product development team to produce quality products.
Requirements:
- A BS in Software Engineering or a relevant discipline
- Familiar with Linux and experience with open source components (LAMP - Linux Apache MySQL Python/PHP/Perl)
- Professional experience of at least three years with two or more programming languages, at least one of which stresses object oriented design (Python, Java, C++, etc)
- Professional experience with object oriented design methodologies and languages.
- Familiarity with web standards, (HTML, XML, CSS, etc).
- Zope/Python experience is a plus
- Good English written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in a small team on multiple projects.
Kavi is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Interested applicants should apply online.
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Cormac's Blog: Lazy loading of object variables in php using __get()
by Chris Cornutt August 08, 2008 @ 14:22:51
Recently, Cormac posted this look at a method for lazy loading on variables in an object with the magic __get method.
I used the magic method __get() to load the images into the [Product] object when they were needed. __get() is called whenever something tries to access a variable that is not set or publically accessible, so basically I used that to load the images whenever some other piece of code tried to access Product::images.
He includes a quick bit of code that fires off an internal private method for the class that loads up the images. In his example, if they're already loaded, it never gets called.
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