Odoo Experience 2015 presentation. Based on the Odoo Development Essentials new book, provides some advice to new developers.

1. Odoo Development Essentials
Bending the Odoo
Learning Curve
Odoo Experience 2015
Alexandre Fayolle | Daniel Reis

2. An Odoo learning curve?

3. 1/ Starting up
 Use Linux to host Odoo
 Work from your favourite OS
 Know the tools

4. Choose to use a Linux server
 Windows or Linux?
 Linux is better for production (workers)
 Linux has better community support
 Linux has more cloud deployment options
 I don't know Linux!
 Use an Ubuntu Server VM
 Lots of online resources
 Learning curve will pay off

5. Develop remotely on your server
 Work on your OS and IDE of choice
 Use SAMBA to share an access server files
 Pilot Odoo instances through SSH shell
 Debug server side using pdb (pudb, ipdb)

6. Get to know your tools
 Explore Python using it's shell
 Get familiar with tuples, lists and dicts
 Try and learn Git and the fork workflow
 Code editor w/ integrated style/lint checking
 Official docs: https://odoo.com/documentation

7. 2/ Developing Apps
 What the docs won't tell you
 Basics about dev workflow

8. What the docs don't tell you
 Expect major version to be incompatible
 Master branch is “API unstable”
 Modules are just Python + Data records!

9. Basics about dev workflow
 “Technical Features” and “Developer Mode”
 Can't see your module? Check addons path
 Module upgrade: reloads data and db struct.
 Server restart: reloads Python code
 Or do both: ./odoo.py -d db -u module

10. 3/ Expanding
Horizons
 Experiment with the API
 Explore Odoo code
 Contribute to OCA

11. Deepening your knowledge
 Experiment with the Odoo server API
 Odoo shell command
 Erppeek client
 Explore the Odoo code
 Use grep to find usage examples
 $ grep -rni --include=”*.py”
”text” ./odoo/addons
 Contribute to the OCA
 Code reviews can provide good mentoring

12. The Odoo Development
Essentials book
1/ A step-by-step introduction
2/ Deeper dive into each
development topic
Visit https://essentials.odoo.com
 Free sample chapter
 25% discount code: ODEPE25

13. Thank you for attending!
Alexandre Fayolle
twitter @gurneyalex
email alexandre.fayolle
AT camptocamp.com
Daniel Reis
twitter @reis_pt
email dgreis AT sapo.pt