1. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel Zach Boerger February 2012

2. Leverage What Already Exists

3. What’s out there? APIs jQuery Libraries Frameworks Templates

4. AP-what? API = Application Programming Interface Give developers access to the feature set of an existing product

6. Top APIs Facebook + Twitter Google Maps Foursquare Twilio

7. Before you build a “cool” feature, Google it

8. Open-source is your friend

9. So is GithubGithub

10. jQuery Scrollable

11. Other Examples Auto-save user input on your forms Create bar graphs on the fly (client-side) Anything else you can build!

12. Frameworks

13. Popular Ones Ruby on Rails Django + Python PHP + CodeIgniter

14. Reasoning Logical, consistent layout for projects Eliminates up-front “setup” time Take advantage of what’s already included

15. Templates & Boilerplates

16. Twitter Bootstrap

17. HTML5 + Mobile Boilerplate

18. Conclusion To quickly test an idea, leverage what’s already out there Go back and re-design later if needed Don’t waste time on stuff that’s already been done