README

This application is running at:
http://kivabackbonejs-example.herokuapp.com/

The Requestb.in for this app is at:
http://requestb.in/1jnfo0y1?inspect

A screencast of this app running is available at:
http://screencast.com/t/L2MGwzbB3aM

To Deploy this app:

OPTION 1:
On a mac with Python installed you can do this:

cd to <Your Directory Tree>/kiva_loans/public

and run

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

app will be available at 'http://localhost:8000'

OPTION 2:

User foreman and Heroku toolbelt.

You can install Heroku Toolbelt here:
https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

cd to <Your Directory Tree>/kiva_loans

run 'npm install'

run 'foreman start'

app will be available at 'http://localhost:5000'


Links that were useful when working on this:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/wiki/Tutorials%2C-blog-posts-and-example-sites
https://github.com/n-time/backbone.validations
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modals
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10420986/overriding-backbone-js-comparator
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5096549/how-to-override-backbone-sync
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Collection-comparator
http://www.kiva.org/
http://www.cloudspokes.com/challenges/1543
http://api.kivaws.org/v1/loans/newest.json