Ecommerce Ninja: Unspinning your wheels when solving difficult problems

Unspinning your wheels when solving difficult problems
by Łukasz Bajsarowicz

Łukasz is a master of quickly fixing problems. He agreed to share some of these stories (and thus tricks) with you. Join the conversation to hear how you can be a better debugger. And not just a better debugger, but ultimately a developer who builds applications that don’t break.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbajsarowicz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LBajsarowicz

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwelljoseph/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftotter_joe

Links mentioned in this video:
https://gist.github.com/lbajsarowicz/6a0a97dc73eb2664ca15bad1176f559b
https://github.com/tddwizard/magento2-fixtures
https://github.com/netz98/n98-magerun2

0:00 Introduction & welcome
1:26 Łukasz introduction
2:30 Adobe Certification voucher discount in October
3:33 Łukasz introducing the topic for the day
5:38 The Culture of Superheroes
6:26 Spinning your wheels happens to everyone
9:07 What makes a great developer
9:45 Łukasz’s personal approach to tackling problems
10:11 Approach one. Tickets are like onions.
12:52 Why you should go layer by layer on some issues
12:42 Xdebug should be your best friend
16:24 Approach two. Chopping peppers
18:00 Some issues can be targeted more precisely like chopping peppers
20:03 Sometimes tickets aren’t clear or assumptions are wrong
22:36 Using Git bisect to investigate
24:42 Approach three. Cooking your ticket
26:01 Hours of implementation can save you minutes of planning
30:04 Approach four. Stop and Stare
33:04 Why sitting and watching is important to unspinning your wheels
35:27 Topic review
40:29 Question about bug in open github Magento 2
43:08 recommendations for how to learn to program integration tests
47:28 Debugging on cron process
50:22 Outro

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