Whip Up A Web App: The webAppWorkshop Tutorial

setup

• Set Up Your Development Environment
  • install dependencies
  • Install the workshop itself

planning

• Gather the Requirements
  • Clarify Intent
  • Decide Whether or Not to Build the App

• Specify the Use Cases
  • A Naming Convention for Well-Formed Use Cases

• Plan the Next Iteration
  • prioritize and estimate each use case

implementation

• Creating a new project
  • Optional: Set up Subversion Repository
  • Create the application skeleton
  • Define a Database Connection

• Model Your Domain
  • define a class
  • model one-to-many relationships with linkset
  • model one-to-one relationships with link
  • modelling many-to-many relationships
  • @TODO: visual modeling

• Expose a RESTful API
  • Define URIs
  • Implement the Method Handlers
  • The POST Tunnel
  • start the server
  • create .htaccess for apache mode

• Generate a Web Interface

• Write a Unit Test

• Add Custom Logic

appendix

• using emacs
  • installing emacs
  • python mode
  • rst mode
  • bicycle repair man
  • nxml mode
  • yasnippet

• using sphinx

• sharing your code