Notes.md

Kickoff Notes

Organizers

• Sending out phone numbers
• use company credit because free stuff

Facebook API

• register your app
• developrs.facebook.com/apps
• facebook login could be cool (native or url redirect)

SendGrid

• Email API
• hack.sendgrid.com to get an account, make sure we're legit

Foursquare API

• location based api
• Take gps location into place

behance API

• search for projects
• get information and content
• all sort of information
• search + comment on wips
• great tool for inspiration

Bloomberg API

• tons of information
• http://openbloomberg.com/open-api/
• all sorts of interfaces
• not easy to experiment with, kind of super expensive
• SEE BLOOMBERG CONTACTS TO GET KEYS/VPN INFORMAITON

MongoDB

• nosql database, really cool json

SailThru

• Solve big data problem
• 100,000 records of data from a client
  • full of totally awesome user data
  • Provided in json file

Meteor.js

• Really cool
• Better than django and rails

Venmo

• Make and share payments with API

Docker

• lets you deploy your application
• dependencies are weird on different environments
  • solves this problem
• docker is super easy to use whatever you want to use when you deploy
• "Build once, take anywhere"
• same advantages of a VM without overhead of replicating the whole system