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Title:

Express Web Apps - What Can You Build in One Week?

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Organizer:
Nikhil Bobb, Yahoo! Brickhouse
Description:
I constantly hear people boasting about what they built last week. eg. "Xxx says he built a scalable Twitter clone in two days, and spent only a week hacking to get his new social network up." We will explore what thinking, tools and methods can have you doing the same.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Is it possible to build a useful, scalable web app in under a week?
  2. What frameworks (eg. rails, django) or micro-frameworks (eg. camping, sinatra) make this easy?
  3. Is using a front end MVC framework over a web service (eg. sproutcore) a quick approach?
  4. Do external web services such as S3 or SimpleDB make development quicker or slower?
  5. What is the minimal infrastructure necessary to scale quckly?
  6. Where can you cut corners in a quick development process?
  7. What types of apps cannot be built in a week?
  8. Is careful architecture or furious hacking the correct approach to an express app?
  9. How do you do visual design quickly?
  10. What online communities can I turn to for free or pay help when I'm building an express app?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
New Technology / Next Generation
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Jeremy Gillick
on 8/8/08
Rapid development techniques, I love it!
Lisa Brewster
on 8/8/08
Will this panel be geared towards developers, or will folks who dream up these kinds of new services get something out of this talk as well?
evan henshaw-plath
on 9/8/08
Should be interesting. Niki's got some good folks to be on the panel, too bad it's not listed here.
Nikhil Bobb
on 13/8/08
@evan Well, I've talked to Seth Fitzsimmons, Kevin Ryan, Blaine Cook, and Rabble (Evan) about being on the panel. They've worked on products like Odeo, My Yahoo!, and a little bit of Twitter between them...so it should be fun to hear their thoughts.

@lisa I think this will be a pretty serious technical panel. The thinking section would be interesting to everyone though, the tools and methods probably not.
Nikhil Bobb
on 13/8/08
and Leonard Lin as well will hopefully be there as well...he worked on the core of upcoming.org
Nike Air Force One
on 26/3/09
Good to know
Nike Air Force 1
on 28/4/09
I agree
Nike Dunks
on 5/5/09
Great information
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