Development Under Fire

Presentation to ISOC-IL for development under fire - the emergency related conference

Transcript

1. + ShelterFinder דואמ רצק רופיס
2. + A little about me n  Hacker, developer, product n  Father to Nevo n  CTO at GetTaxi, Clarizen and others.. n  Starting a new thing.. n  Long distance runner http://about.me/liorsion @liorsion on twitter
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4. + ShelterFinder
5. + What I had to do n  Fast to develop n  Fast to distribute n  Easily updatable (data + fixes) n  Efficient and fast n  Make it interesting for me
6. + Tech and Buzzwords n  Official Open Api – Good idea, problematic implementation n  Social hacking to the rescue n  Result was even better at the end n  No server side n  Hosting on my personal site n  Hosting on dropbox (!) n  Hosting on amazon n  Javascript only solution n  HTML5 + Javascript n  Google Fusion
7. + What can you take from it? n  You don’t have to be overly technical n  Although you do need to know SOME things n  Read, know what are the tools around you n  Talk, get help from others n  There are some great tools already, and.. n  Things are improving n  Think outside the box n  Just do it.