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Lead developer, CTO at Sterc

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Gauke Pieter Sietzema

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Sterc - Internet & Marketing

MODX Founding Partner

MODXpo sponsor

Founded in 2005

MODX 0.9.3

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Fail compilation8 years of web development

8 years of MODX development

Hundreds of masterfully crafted websites

Hundreds of happy clients

Countless of challenges to keep ‘m happy

No regrets, but…

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What to expect?Numerous fails

Ideas to prevent ‘m in the future

A good laugh

Interaction

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MODXHostingXLHosting from one of Holland’s best Magento hosting companies

Powered by the latest hardware

SSD’s to boost performance

Optional Varnish

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Meeting the clientWho are you?

Appointment

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Communication“oh, I’ll fix it in 5 mins!”

Playing dead

“are you sure? It ís working here”

Not telling the client something is way more expensive

Assumptions

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Working for free #1A broke client

Not creating expectations

Pleasing

Can you add this little thingy?

Hiring a third party

Standards and defaults

Assumptions

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Working for free #2Invoices

Agree to invoice when a site is finished

Reinventing the wheel

Assumptions

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TestingNot testing at all or just by yourself

Logging in with your own (sudo) user

Forms and email

Using new add ons

Not telling the client you tested something

Browsers, Windows, Tablets, internet connections

Assumptions

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Search engines #1Bad canonical

Noindex

Launching an IP-blocked site

Wrong UA-code

Forgetting 301 redirects

Sitemap with everything

Lorem ipsum

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Search engines #2Indexing developer sites

www and non-www

Non-cachable sites when going live

Domain-aliases and htaccess

Wrong Sitemap in Robots.txt when using a multi-domain setting

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Being funnyPutting meme’s in your clients site and not removing them

Funny classnames: .yellow p, .poop { color:brown; }

Funny stories as test content

Being funny on social media about clients

Creating funny passwords for the client

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Wild wild westWild West coding

Russian roulette with no backups

Editing your local files and refreshing your live site

Working on a live site, but editing a different site

Updating a site when there is a huge amount of visitors

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Updating MODXUpdate contracts

Updating an Evo site and overwriting it with the demo content

2.1 > 2.2 and media sources

Client access policies

Updating with incompatible packages

Not testing after an update

Leaving the setup folder

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Brain fartsDNS TTL

Delivering email locally, when you shouldn't

Working with hosting companies who update without telling

Sending test emails to funny non-existent domain names

Caching forms

Caching e-commerce checkout pages

No backup mails

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Some good excuses, that buys you time

“Did you try to reboot your PC?”

“Did you clear your browser cache?”

“Oooh, you are using Internet Explorer”

“It works on my computer, so it must be a local problem”

It’s a DNS problem

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SeriouslyCommunicate

Be honest

Go for a long term relationship with your client

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Any questions fails?

XL

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That’s it folks, thanks!

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