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Notes for Node Knocked Out talk given at #wd42
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Notes for Node Knocked Out talk given at #wd42

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• URL: https://github.com/joshgillies/wd42-november
• Owner: joshgillies
• Created: 2013-11-26T10:59:08.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
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• Homepage: http://slid.es/joshgillies/node-knocked-out
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# Node Knocked Out

The outline below was used to draft my #wd42 talk as given on November 27th 2013.

The final presentation can be found here: http://slid.es/joshgillies/node-knocked-out

_(questions encouraged during this talk)_

	

## Slide one:

Open with an overview of the event

 - Node knockout is an annual global hackathon based around Node.js as a technology.

 - 48hrs to develop a product using Node.js at its core (show time lapse here).

 - 400 teams in total.

## Slide two:

Details of the app

 - The overarching idea to the app (Sentiment, new take on news reader) (Show video here!).

 - Sentiment score based on sentiment analysis (ala npm module)

 - Shares define the awesomeness of an article, which is then used in the presentation/layout of news tiles.

## Slide Three:

Detail the development processes employed

 - Discuss our use of Agile/Kanban approach to develop the ideas into tasks (Trello board)

 - The use of Agile “stories” to describe implementation details without directly influencing the development approach.

 - Rapid feedback loops via regular (~hourly) meetings

## Slide four:

Frontend technologies:

 - Sass for hardcore stylesheets - Dom you can likely talk to this some more.

 - 3d effect of the plane achieved using CSS3!

 - jQuery for DOM manipulation, AJAX, etc...

## Side five:

Backend technologies:

 - Express for bootstrapping a HTTP server in Node.js

 - xml2js for parsing RSS feeds in node

 - Readability for processing the xml stream

 - Sentimental for sentiment analysis on content of the Readability processed data

 - Redis for in memory NoSQL data store == fast.

## Slide six:

Problems:

- Integration issues, relating to getting the working API done before close of event.

- Cross browser issues relating to feature detection?

## Slide seven:	

Outcome of our app against the rest:

 - 32rd over all (from 160 teams!)

 - 4th for Design.