Learn the principles of rapid application development. Step by Step Rapid Prototyping with Twitter Bootstrap and Google App Engine, a class taught by Aaron White at Intelligent.ly's Boston campus. Learn more from the experts by visiting http://intelligent.ly/learn

1. presents
Step by Step Rapid
Prototyping with Google
App Engine and Bootstrap
AARON WHITE
@aaronwhite

2. Singular Goal: Validation
Does anyone care about what I’m doing? What’s
the easiest path to figure that out?

3. Boil it to the bare essentials
A good three-sentence customer value pitch is
1000x more valuable than any of the code you’ll
write.

4. Talk is Cheap
That’s a good thing... use it!

5. Landing Page Tests
Unbounce

6. Not possible? Let’s code.
Like martial arts, it’s a last resort (unless it’s for
fun!)

7. TweetFavor
I have a pain... is there a solution? Are there
others who feel the pain like I do?

8. Google’s App Engine

9. Hosting
Scalable Data Store
App Layer
Multiple Language Support
Platform as a Service

10. Twitter’s Bootstrap

11. Sensible Design Defaults
Pleasant typographic baseline
Fixed & fluid layouts
Navigational components
Responsive design support

12. Getting Licensed
(you only need to do these once)

13. Gmail account
Appspot.com account, install App Engine Tools
Github account, install Git Client
Text Editor (OSX? Sublime 2)

14. Pre-flight Checklist

15. Fork/clone ’gaebootstrapped’ starter project
Choose unique app name
Deploy to GAE
Iterate!

16. Architecture (MVC or bust)

17. Models.py
Managers.py
Controllers.py
Templates

18. Modeling

19. Business Logic

20. Page flows

21. Design

22. Finishing Touches

23. Custom Domain
Email

24. Course Title
Course Title
INSTRUCTOR NAME