Advanced Curriculum For The Software Craftsman

This document is intended as a guidance for new developers joining our teams at FLYERALARM. Because we think it might help others as well we open-sourced it. If you know something that's missing feel free send us a Pull-Request.

Basics

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• What Every Developer Should Know About Time
• A story about an angry carrot and a floating point fairy
• How The Web Works
• HTTP on Wikipedia
• An Introduction To HTTP Basics
• TCP/IP Protocol Fundamentals Explained with a Diagram
• Google Developer Training For The Web
• Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

Design And Architecture Of Software

• Clean Code
• DesignPatternsPHP
• 18 must-watch PHP architecture talks
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Domain Driven Design
• Introduction to CQRS
• CQRS and Event Sourcing

PHP

• PHP The Right Way
• PHP The Wrong Way
• A response to PHP The Wrong Way
• PHP Framework Interoperability Group
• PSR - PHP Standard Recommendation
• PHP Library Discovery
• PHP Logging Basics
• Awesome PHP (A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things)
• Efficient Data structures for PHP 7

Tools

• git
• Atlassian git Tutorials
• Composer - Dependency Manager For PHP
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository
• PHPUnit
• Introduction to PHP Unit
• Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First
• A Beginner's Guide to npm

Environment

• Basic UNIX commands
• Puppet Tutorial
• Puphpet - GUI to set up virtual machines for web development

Persistence

• High Performance Mysql
• Rules of Thumb for MySQL
• The Little Redis Book
• Building an Event Storage

Processes & Culture

• The Agile Manifesto
• Agile Retrospectives
• Team Geek - A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

Frontend & UI/UX

• MDN - Mozilla Developer Network
• Talks To Help You Become A Better Front-End Engineer
• Eloquent Javascript
• Netflix UI Engineers Youtube Channel
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Babel.js - ES6 today
• Don't make me think - Web Usability

Web Security

• OWASP - Open Web Application Security Project

Best Practices

• The Best Code is No Code At All
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Simple Made Easy
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The full stackoverflow developer
• Measure anything, measure everything
• Go to a local user group
• Read open-source code on GitHub
• Never stop building stuff

On a side note: We are searching for talented people to join our various teams of developers in multiple locations