prototype

This prototype will focus on creating a web application that communicates with REST services ( backend application ) and displays the information on the frontend application.

Features this application should have

• Integration with google maps using Google Maps SDK.
• Filter information by category.
• CRUD operations ( create, read, update, delete ) places.
• Use Google Maps SDK to draw points, lines and polygons on Google Map Tiles, this draws should be saved on a MongoDB collection, and fetched/displayed when you click on place to see details.
• Inputs the places should have [ name - required, description - optional, LatLng (coordinates) - required, photos - required ]

Technologies

• You will need to run a HTTP Reverse Proxy server called NGINX ( not the usual apache )
• You will code your webservices with python and django framework ( do it the restfull way )
• You will use git as a concurrent version control and to deploy your apps
• You will use Twitter Bootstrap to ease the development of the frontend design ( HTML5, CSS, JS )
• You will use Backbone to implement a MV* approach to frontend development. ( client side logic )
• You will create the schema and use MySQL to save info from places [ name, description, latlng and photos ], 1-N relation on photos
• You will use MongoDB to save points, lines and polygons.

Recommended Tools

• Use pip/easy_install package manager to install python packages
• SequelPro to manage your mysql db
• iTerm2 ( a better terminal )
• ghi to work with github issues on terminal
• vagrant to create your VM instance instead of working on your local machine
• Chrome Developer Tools to frontend debug

Requirements

• Implement Test Driven Development
• Atleast backend code should be tested ( UnitTest ), there are libraries that ease this

Issues

All issues should go to this GitHub repository Issues.

Recommended Documentation

Server and Web Framework

http://wiki.nginx.org/Main
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoAndNginx
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/
http://www.django-rest-framework.org/
http://tastypieapi.org/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/656979/django-and-restful-apis

Front-End + MV* + Google Maps SDK

http://getbootstrap.com/
http://backbonejs.org/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays?hl=en

Databases + Django

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/
https://django-mongodb-engine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Vagrant

http://www.vagrantup.com/

Testing

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/overview/

Tools

http://www.iterm2.com/
https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi
http://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial
http://www.sequelpro.com/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

Deadlines

• Yesterday - Start exploring the technologies and methodologies
• February 12 - You should have a grasp knowledge of all the development stack, start developing the prototype
• February 24 - Deliver the prototype

This will be some hard days, but are of utmost importance to integrate you in the team.