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 SWEetOutdoors

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Kirsten Thomas

November 30, 2016

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  1. Meet the SWEet Team Didi Crous (Leslie Knope) Full stack

    w/ front end focus Elizabeth Haynes (April Ludgate) Front end Ali Darwiche (Ben Wyatt) Full stack Asad Mahdi (Jean-Ralphio) Back end
  2. Meet the SWEet Team Matthew Rosenbaum (Chris Traeger) Hosting &

    Back end Kirsten Thomas (Gerry Gergich) Front end Rambo Wu (Donna Meagle) Full Stack w/ back end focus
  3. Issues 84 issues 20 Matthew 3 Didi 1 Ali 26

    Elizabeth 3 Asad 27 Kirsten 4 Rambo All issues were resolved
  4. Commits 461 commits 57 Matthew 48 Didi 40 Ali 52

    Elizabeth 22 Asad 72 Kirsten 125 Rambo
  5. Hosting ★ Amazon EC2 ◦ Ubuntu instance with Apache web

    server installed ★ Amazon RDS ◦ Hosts our PostgreSQL database ★ Amazon Route 53 ◦ Routes our URL to our Ubuntu instance ★ Namecheap ◦ Our Domain Name Registrar
  6. APIs ★ Google Places ◦ Used with Wikipedia to get

    state and national park data ★ Activity Search ◦ Used to get event data ★ Campground Search ◦ Used to get campground data ★ MediaWiki ◦ Used to get state data ◦ used to get lists of state and national parks ★ Bing Locations ◦ Used to get zipcode by latitude and longitude
  7. Self Critique • What did we do well? ◦ General

    design and layout ◦ Working with what we had • What did we learn? ◦ APIs need better documentation and it is hard to deal with restricted number of calls ◦ New tools • What can we do better? ◦ Embed more media on our instance pages ◦ Improve search results ◦ Faster loading time • What puzzles us? ◦ All of the tools we had to use ◦ CSS can be difficult
  8. Party People Critique • What did they do well? ◦

    Navigation bar drop down menu ◦ Data loads quickly ◦ Clear table design ◦ About page description ◦ They have a cute little icon • What did we learn from their website? ◦ Green Party: i. 7 Co-Chairs ii. 0 affiliated politicians ◦ API’s don’t always work • What can they do better? ◦ Standardized font ◦ partypeople.me/candidates/409 ◦ Responsiveness • What puzzles us about their website? ◦ Use of repetitive attributes ◦ Use of far left columns ◦ Why blue and not red?