About Social Warming

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Collaboration & Services

• Trello - Organizing Tasks, Collaboration
• HipChat - For group Chats and recent notifications from GitHub
• Vagrant - For development environment. Local dev virtual machine
• Vagrant Cloud - For Vagrant versioning and auto-updating (keeping the same VM state for entire team)
• Travis CI - For running PHP Code Sniffer Tests (keeping the same coding standard for entire team)
• Scrutinizer CI - For some static code analysis and overall code quality score
• dploy.io - For code Autodeployment to Koding VM from GitHub. Make life easier not to do SSH login, files upload to production server every time on code change

APIs Used

• Twritter API - Login/Registration and post Event message on user's behalf
• Facebook API - Login/Registration and post Event message on user's behalf
• Google Maps API - For Country/City autocompletion
• Highcharts - For showing interactive geo maps
• MaxMind GeoIP - For getting User Location based on IP
• Bit.ly - For URL shortening when posting statuses into Twitter
• Mashape Sentiment API - Analyze an event mood

Software

• nginx + PHP-FPM
• PHP 5.5
• MySQL 5.5
• Yii2 - One of the best PHP Frameworks
• Yii2 advanced app - As initial application template
• Composer - Dependency Manager for PHP
• PHP Code Sniffer - for keeping the same coding standards PSR-2
• Compass CSS Framework & Sass for CSS
• Twitter Bootstrap - OpenSource HTML5 & CSS framework for main frontend development
• Bitly API - Short URL service to share events and have stats

Conventions

Things that make our work Faster and code well organized, Cleaner, Secure and Maintainable

• GitHub workflow - Following simple Opensource-related branch-based workflow
• Database Migrations - all changes in DB structure are applied via migrations
• PSR-2 + Yii2 code style
• Yii2 view coding style
• PHPDoc - writing full Documentation for Classes, Methods, Properties, type hinting for better IDE support & autocompletion
• Not storing passwords in Git - application gets credentials from server Environment variables. See CONFIGURING.md