Components of the software stack for Twibes.com

twibes-stack.md

Stack for twibes.com

Development Environment

• Platform: Mac OS X 10.6.6
• IDE: TextMate
• Editing Font: Monaco 18pt
• Source Code Repo/host: SVN/Unfuddle (prefer git nowadays)

Hosting

• Hosting Provider: Google, plus Dreamhost rails project as a live backup (because it is cheap $100/yr) unlimited data transfer
• Hardware/Virtual Server Type: ??
• Operating System: Google Linux Variant ?
• Database/Datastore: App Engine Datastore
• Webserver: ??

Services

• File storage: haven't used blobstore, but have used datastore to hold binary data
• message queuing: App Engine Task Queue
• DB service: App Engine Datastore
• Performance Reporting: None
• App Metrics: MixPanel, CrazyEgg, Chartbeat
• Error Reporting
• Email: App Engine

Web Framework

• Framework: webapp (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/webapp/)
• Language Python 2.6.1
• ORM

Libraries (Gems, plugins)

• Oauth
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Misc Fave Gems
• HTML preprocessing
• CSS preprocessing
• Javscript preprocessing Javascript Jquery

Mobile Libraries

• framework/IDE Experimented with Appcellerator, should be sufficient for Twibes but Android app was ugly

Project Management

• bug tracking
• agile planning
• collaboration Google Docs, Google Wave
• email/calendar hosting
• domain purchasing/management
• domain checking
• team chat/IM