Code Ninja: Web Apps and APIs Talk

Presentation given on the 24th of January to a group of students in the O'Flaherty Theatre, NUI Galway as part of the CodeNinja.ie project.

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1. CODENINJA.IE NUI Galway, 24th February 2012 Web Applications Server Side
2. LANGUAGES Ruby PHP Python
3. FRAMEWORKS CakePHP Symfony Zend Ruby on Rails Sinatra/Padrino Django
4. DATABASE NoSQL vs. RDBMS MySQL (RDBMS) MongoDB & BigTable (key-value stores) Cassandra (eventually consistent) Amazon S3 + CloudFront (data store)
5. SOURCE CONTROL “Developing code with out source control is like pissing into the wind.” Git Subversion Tag stable releases - read only Trunk should always be stable Flying fish branches
6. TESTING Test/Behaviour Driven Development (TDD/BDD) Cucumber (Ruby) Selenium IETester Firebug Chrome
7. PACKAGE MANAGERS Plug and Play Code Ruby Gems PHP PEAR Python EasyInstall
8. HOSTING Virtual vs. Physical Hetzner (German - ‘nuff said) Amazon AWS (free micro instance!) Heroku (Rails + Git) Engine Yard (Ruby) Orchestra.io (PHP) Google AppEngine (Python)
9. AMAZON WEB SERVICES Virginia, Oregon, California, Ireland, Singapore, Tokyo, Sao Paulo Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Simple Storage Service (S3) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) RDS & SimpleDB Route 53
10. APIs & SERVICES Harness 3rd party APIs and services Postmark & Amazon SES Clickatell Twillio Exceptional PayPal & Stripe Geckoboard Snap Engage
11. APIs & SERVICES Harness 3rd party APIs and services Spreedly & Chargify SauceLabs & Sellenium Google Analytics Mouse Flow Google Fonts & TypeKit Twitter, LinkedIn YouTube, GMaps
12. FACEBOOK GRAPH API “Standing on the shoulders of giants” Website Mobile App http://developers.facebook.com
13. WHO TO FOLLOW @paul_irish @maxvoltar @ericries @rem @dariocravero @destraynor @ryancarson
14. Q & A Contact me Paul Killoran paul@starlight.ie @dancinpaul http://about.me/paulkilloran