The Story

The checkout is down. Your project manager is breathing down your neck. Someone is reminding you that you're a certified developer with "how many years of experience" and that you should be able to get this fixed, quickly.

We, ecommerce developers face real, intense pressure. We have to keep the site up. We have to fix problems quickly. We have to prevent bugs from getting into the system. I feel this all the time (and I'm guessing you have too). Through the course of my 10-15 years as an ecommerce developer, I've picked up tools and ideas that have reduced that feeling of stress. These have put me in the driver's seat in (most) situations. Yes, there are still those crazy-weird problems, but that number is constantly decreasing. The Art of Ecommerce Debugging is where I give my learnings to you to make your load lighter.

The Tech Book That Isn't a Tech Book

Books about software development are boring. Like ridiculously boring. There are massive blocks of code to read—and when you try to put this code into practice, it doesn't work! Yep, they're also discouraging! (to be fair, this is a generalization as there are some solid reads)

This book is not one of those dry, boring, painful technical books. I've learned from reading enough of them. This book is concise, interesting, packed with stories and comics, and gives you graspable (if that's a word) insights that you can use, today, as you fix bugs in an e-commerce setting. If you aren't convinced that you have saved 2 hours of debugging time in 2 months, we will refund your money.

Details:

• Full-color + hard-cover (digital version available, too)
• 193 pages
• 40USD
• Shipped to your door for free
• ISBN: 978-1-7367586-0-1

Why You Shouldn't Buy This Book

You don't need another paperweight. My wife kindly helped me clean up my desk. I had too much stuff on it. I took a photo, and it almost looked like a crime scene.  Whether or not your desk looks like mine, you wouldn't want another book to clutter it. Paperweights are useless. If you aren't going to read the book, it'll be a paperweight. Save your money.

You are confident you can learn it online. There are some really good articles online about debugging. Here are a couple of my favorites. We even recently launched a podcast about debugging, and we post a new episode every week. You can join our free training series, live on YouTube on the first Wednesday of every month, where I teach developers how to write better code and prevent bugs from ever getting into their systems. I even invite you to join our Slack Channel where over a thousand developers are already collaborating. But, at the end of the day, there's a ton of information in this book that I have yet to see anywhere else. It's the book that I wish I had ten years ago, starting out as an ecommerce developer.

About the Course

Have you ever read a book and thought, "that's a great idea, but how do I actually put this into practice?" That's the problem this course answers. I get that some folks aren't readers. I get that some folks yearn for practical experience.

The entertaining thing about this course is that I've fought through these issues myself! I distill the bugs down into a followable format where we work through the TAD framework to come to a solution ourselves. It's pretty much a kata where you take the first shot and then we identify the solution together. See preview here.

If you are a junior or mid-level developers, consider this course as sitting down with a senior developer and debugging some freaking-hard problems. I take the theories and examples in the book and brings them to life with legit, real-world problems. Walk through (at this point) 5 bugs—some of them excruciatingly difficult, but never fear, the answer has already been discovered. The environment you learn in is a brand-new code base with thousands of lines of undiscovered code along with a fully-functioning sample data set with plenty of orders.

Syllabus

• The Unchangeable Name that's Quite the Pain
• Cart that Falls Apart
• Pricing Calculation Creates Speculation
• Zebra Stripes on a Slider
• Checkout is Lights Out

Frequently Asked Questions

• I build sites on (shopware|bigcommerce|shopify), will I benefit? Yes! While most of Joseph's examples do come from his experience on the Magento platform, these techniques apply anywhere. The TAD framework alone, once implemented, will result in a massive productivity boost.
• Why purchase the hardcover book when I could purchase the ebook? There's this thing called the "Downloads" directory on our computers. Have you noticed how many times a file is downloaded and never touched again? Yes, that's a real thing. The hardcover book "escapes" out of this path to oblivion, and the book resides on your desk. Pretty simple. That said, there are a number of you who like to read on a digital device. Got it, so there's the PDF version.
• Have any professionals reviewed the book? Of course! That's part of my writing process: getting a list of talented people to read and provide comments. I give credit to them in the front of the book because their feedback was superbly good.
• How much will it cost? 40USD, shipped free in the world. If you run the numbers, I'm not making much on this. That's ok as I so firmly believe in how transformational this product will be for the readers.
• How much will taxes/duties cost? We calculated the taxes and duties for a number of countries and put this as a note below the Add to Cart button. Unfortunately, at this point, you are responsible for paying these.
• Another question? Feel free to drop me a line.