Rather than trying to memorize a list of hundreds of best practices for software design, apply five basic principles that result in software that is innovative and usable.

1. It's not about you
2. It Depends
3. Simple is good: but it's not simple
4. Influence not control
5. Practice creates change

Lost in the forest of front-end build systems out there? Check out Gulp! Gulp makes it super easy to minify, concatenate, and optimize your assets in an easy piping build stream. There are only a few commands to learn, so writing complex tasks (like you would in another system) isn't a thing in Gulp. In this talk, I will walk through what Gulp is and create a working gulpfile that can be used across endless front end projects that minifies, concatenates, and optimizes assets, as well as live reloads the browser using browser-sync.