Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc. Special Guest: James Cowie, Solutions Architect at Inviqa

This is one of those long-awaited episodes that we were finally able to record and we're so happy it finally happened! It was an honor to chat with James Cowie. Listen in to this episode to hear James' recommendations for getting the most out of your code reviews, how to stay fresh with the knowledge you have siloed, as well as his suggestions for being a successful developer! Thinking like a 5 year old child can benefit us all

Show Notes

0:00 Intro

1:40 An average day for James as a Solutions Architect

2:35 A little about the organization within Inviqa

3:46 Code reviews

5:00 What James learned from one of his first memorable code reviews as a developer

5:59 Code reviews should be more than just a critique

9:13 James' tips for submitting the best possible code reviews

13:22 BDD and Behat

16:58 Code previews before implementation- think like an architect

18:07 How to be sure the knowledge you gain isn't siloed

22:29 Getting ahead of problems that happen 12 months down the road

26:00 James' "What If" game to future proof solutions

28:44 The importance of building strong partnerships

29:30 James' suggestion for being a better developer

31:41 Outro

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Do YOU have an incredible debugging story to share? Send your story to brandym@swiftotter.com and you might be our next podcast guest!

This podcast exists to inspire, educate and entertain eCommerce developers who are serious about improving their skills and advancing their careers!

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Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc. Special Guest: Talesh Seeparsan, eCommerce Security Consultant and Strategist

Security is one of those topics like taxes where we have to just do it. Talking to someone like Talesh Seeparsan about security on our Magento sites, however, totally changes the game! We say this every time, but this might be one of our favorite episodes to date! Talesh gives us some insight into some of the biggest hacks he has encountered, and some tips on how to prevent security breaches.

Show Notes

0:00 Show Intro

1:46 Some of the big names in eCommerce Security

3:50 A typical day for Talesh

4:59 Some common examples of poorly-written code

6:23 The cost of a bug like a security breach

9:06 Quantifying an average breach 12:01 "The mind of an attacker"

14:37 The importance of keeping your extensions up to date

18:20 Humans tend to be the biggest security risk

19:51 Writing regular expressions with security in mind

22:41 Magecart attack

24:51 A security breach due to a reused password

27:56 The value in whitelisting specific IPs

29:56 Outro

Connect with Talesh: LinkedIn Twitter

Connect with Joseph: LinkedIn Twitter

https://swiftotter.com https://twitter.com/Swift_Otter https://www.facebook.com/SwiftOtterInc

Do YOU have an incredible debugging story to share? Send your story to brandym@swiftotter.com and you might be our next podcast guest!

This podcast exists to inspire, educate and entertain eCommerce developers who are serious about improving their skills and advancing their careers!

Have you joined the free SwiftOtter Slack community? It's exploding and we don't want you to miss out. You can join for free and get plugged into what might be the best group of collaborating developers around!

Junior developers are a category of people we haven’t explored much on this podcast yet. In this episode of Smash the Bug, we’re changing that and talking with Alice Dean, a developer with Fisheye. The hunger and tenacity of junior developers is unmatched, and should not be overlooked when it comes to those we can learn from! Alice gives us some insight into what her day-to-day is like, and talks about a couple bugs she has smashed recently.

Show Notes

0:00 Intro

2:29 An average day for Alice

5:43 Making the jump from Technical Account Manager to Developer

7:10 Getting the first Magento certification

10:09 A recent invoicing bug

15:00 Recounting the troubleshooting steps that Alice took

16:09 The one line fix Alice used for this challenge

17:36 Using integration tests for troubleshooting

19:50 A custom product alert module issue with 2.4.4

23:29 When the error logs aren’t consistently providing helpful information

26:14 How to get Xdebug working on the CLI

29:37 Alice’s advice for others getting started as a developer

32:18 Outro

Connect with Alice: LinkedIn Twitter

Connect with Joseph: LinkedIn Twitter

https://swiftotter.com https://twitter.com/Swift_Otter https://www.facebook.com/SwiftOtterInc

Do YOU have an incredible debugging story to share? Send your story to brandym@swiftotter.com and you might be our next podcast guest!

This podcast exists to inspire, educate and entertain eCommerce developers who are serious about improving their skills and advancing their careers!

Have you joined the free SwiftOtter Slack community? It's exploding and we don't want you to miss out. You can join for free and get plugged into what might be the best group of collaborating developers around!