Skills Passport Developer Guide

UPDATE APRIL 9: The developer's guide has been updated, and there's still time to get ready for the
TechCom Hack-a-thon. TechCom attendees: Follow the steps in the attached developer's guide to configure
your coding environment. Read all the notes on this page too. Then, show up at the Hack-a-thon at this place
and time. See you at TechCom!

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Attention all participants in the Skills Passport App-a-thon on April 3-4: Time to get ready! You must review
the attached developer's guide to create an account in BlueMix and follow the instructions for configuring your
desktop/PC. This is necessary to fully participate in the app-a-thon -- i.e., work in BlueMix as well as build the
mobile app locally. You'll also need the development tools for your mobile platform. The guide provides links
to either packages that must be installed or background information on what components or libraries are used
within the BlueMix or mobile app.

This document will also outline how to participate in the App-a-thon

Please allow several hours and do this prior to the start of the App-a-thon on April 3.

Feel free to post questions as comments to this page, or contact Paul St Amand or Craig Van der Velden.

Good luck everyone!

UPDATE APRIL 3 RE: BLUEMIX SERVICES

NOTE: Before the Fork step in the Developer Guide, use the Services Configuration document attached to
build the services in your BlueMix account. (This only happens on initial setup, once, and is then used going
forward.) The application will use these services in the build and deploy steps as a part of the forked code, and
as the web application runs these services are used.

UPDATE APRIL 6: Build step, Use Simple for the Build , don't use Ant

UPDATE APRIL 7: Please create your bluemix project in the US-South instance. We've experienced some
difficulty working code between the US-South and EU-GB regions of bluemix. For now we should all use the
US-South region and should this change we'll post an update.

UPDATE APRIL 8: All the development guide notes have been combined into a single document, including the
initial Application Overview and Architecture design details, detailed bluemix setup, and creating the manual
services so they match the service names located in the master source code tree. Continue using the US-
South region for all our Skills Passport development.

UPDATE APRIL 14: A minor update to remove developer guide comments on setting the working directory on
the build, leave the defaults on the Simple Build

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If you run into issues with either the mobile app build (\>ionic build [android | ios]), make sure the platform files
are locally installed:

\>ionic platform add [android | ios]

or the app not running properly on the mobile device (this only needs to be done on the initial code fork:

delete these files:

app\plugins\android.json
or
app\plugins\ios.json

And, try the build again

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