Digger

PP Dev Lightning Talks 12/13/13

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1. Digger: The Traveling Record Collector PP Lightning Talks 131213 Friday, December 13, 13
2. I go to a lot of record stores Friday, December 13, 13
3. I usually make maps like this Friday, December 13, 13
4. I figured there could be a way to do it more efficiently Friday, December 13, 13
5. Yes, this is NP Hard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem Friday, December 13, 13
6. http://www.recordshops.org/ Friday, December 13, 13
7. recordshops.org • Exposes whole database as json Friday, December 13, 13
8. Enter digger • I didn’t really want to do much work Friday, December 13, 13
9. Enter digger • I didn’t really want to do much work • Sinatra Friday, December 13, 13
10. Enter digger • I didn’t really want to do much work • Sinatra • MongoDB / MongoMapper - can just load JSON into database Friday, December 13, 13
11. Enter digger • I didn’t really want to do much work • Sinatra • MongoDB - can just load json in • Bootstrap - margin:  0  auto;  No time for that Friday, December 13, 13
12. MongoDB • Geospatial indexes make life easy • http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/ geospatial-indexes/ ensure_index  [[:location,  '2d']]     def  self.near(location)  #  [0.00,  0.00]    where(:location  =>  {'$near'  =>  location}) end Friday, December 13, 13
13. Geocoder Gem • Uses Google Geocoding API to find starting location Friday, December 13, 13
14. Google JS Maps • Given waypoints, generate directions Friday, December 13, 13
15. Demo • http://x-digger.herokuapp.com Friday, December 13, 13