This is an annotated reading list for technical background on technologies and principles used at Project Victors.

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

• Short Form
• The thorough version: You Need To Know This

Architecture

• Hypermedia - REST API design 
  • HATEOAS - wikipedia article on how to design REST APIs that implement application state server-side.
  • FoxyCart - a well-documented example of a hypermedia REST API.

Development Tools & Technologies

• GIT - The Simple Guide. A just-enough guide to installing and using GIT (source code
  management).
• GIT Tutorial - a general tutorial on using GIT.

Javascript Development

• Middleman - command line tool for developing static web sites. Used in the PMSMobile project.
• jQuery - core technology for building web applications in javascript.
• HAML - light-weight markup language processed into HTML. See also the source site haml.info.
• Mustache - template expansion language