Hello. Nice To Meet You. Darryl Adie, Managing Director @DarrylAdie
Iain Hubbard, Development Manager @iainhubbard
Joseph McDermott, Senior Developer @Joseph_McD
We’re An Open Source Ecommerce Agency.
We help enterprise businesses develop
& improve ecommerce operations
using open source software
About Us. • Founded in 2008
• Located in the Northern Quarter, Manchester
• Magento Gold Solution Partner
• Technical agency focused on Magento Enterprise
• Team of 25 people
Featured Customers
What We Do.
What We’ve Done.
We Use Magento.
Magento is an open-source
ecommerce solution, written
in PHP with a MySQL database
What Is It. • Open source eCommerce platform
• Written in PHP using Zend Framework
• MySQL database
• MVC
• Its free! (well… some of it)
• Everything you need to sell online
• Modular architecture
Agile Development.
What Is It. • Umbrella term for several iterative and incremental software development
methodologies
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Kanban (development)
• Lean software development
• Scrum
What Is It Trying To Solve. • Waterfall
• Improved customer feedback
• Rapid adjustment to change
• Make the development process less opaque
• Give the client what they want
• Shines a light into the black hole of development
What Does It Struggle With. • Safety critical systems
• Fixed cost development
• Inflexible contracts
Agile Development For Us.
What Did We Do. • Single delivery date to unveil project to client
• Client feedback gathered at the end of the project
• Development tasks all share the same deadline
What We Do Now. • Multiple delivery dates to unveil project progress to client
• Client feedback gathered after each delivery date
• Development tasks split into sprints
• Daily internal scrum
TDD.
Why Test At All. • Reduces bugs in production code
• Saves you time
• Bugs found at development time are easier and cheaper to fix
• Less time spent on maintenance
• Easier to change and refactor code
• Unit Testing can improve the design of code
• A measure of completion
• Encourages simpler design
Why Not TDD. • Based on the assumption that everybody fully understands the system
• Requires a large amount of up front design
• Requires the client to know exactly what they want
TDD For Us.
What Did We Do. • Nothing
What We Do Now. • Continuous integration triggered with every commit
• You break it you fix it (with the ‘escape goat’ for company)
• Aim for high percentage code coverage
• Write tests as early as possible with each task
• Unit vs Feature tests
The complexity created by a programmer is in inverse proportion to their ability to handle complexity. @KentBeck
Our Graduate Programme.
Since 2011: We’ve hired 100% of interns All of them are still with us Magento Certified within 3 months
Valentino
Cristian
Daniel
Software Engineers. CV Deadline: 9 Aug Start date: 16 Sep
• Basic Requirements
• Object-oriented programming and design skills
• Attention to detail!
• Demonstrable programming ability
• Desirable Skills
• PHP
• MVC
• SQL
• Linux/Unix
• jQuery, Prototype or other Javascript experience
Last year’s grads say hello.
Software Engineers.
CV Deadline: 9 Aug Start date: 16 Sep
Apply: http://ampersandcommerce.com/careers/graduates/
(PS. We’d be your bosses…) Say hello on twitter @IainHubbard @Joseph_McD @DarrylAdie
Thank You
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