King & McGaw Developers

Part of the way the team has evolved this year has required putting more emphasis on consistent coding conventions and procedures to make our collaboration smoother. Here are a few notes.

Javascript

Google’s Javascript style guide, plus some JSHint config.

CSS/Less

Our own internal styleguide.

HTML

Our own internal styleguide.

Ruby

Nothing yet, but probably the Github Ruby Styleguide in the future.

Git branching

We use something vaguely between git-flow and “Github flow”. In essence, master is always deployable, develop is a shared staging branch, and feature branches are created for major or disruptive features. I could see us moving to git-flow next year.

Project naming

We decided to name our projects after film directors. So far Romero (our internal CSS framework), Kubrick (our next-generation platform in development) and Eastwood (an experimental Backbone-based product page) are active, but I am sure more will sprint to life in 2013.

It’s pretty lean so far, but we’re making refinements all the time.