ColorJacket.com requirements

General requirements for ColorJacket.com

• Store jacket file structure in S3 and metadata in SimpleDB fronted by memcached
• Register jacket S3 bucket for use in CloudFront (for speed for our users)
• Auto cluster EC2 instances will provide application to users
• javascript based plugins for all browsers we support talk to backend cluster
• php backend to act as web service answering calls from javascript frontend

More details

Create jackets bucket in S3 and store by jacket id, i.e., http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001

Use a hierarchy within the S3 jackets bucket for jacket assets:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/backgrounds_body

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/thumbnails_small

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/screenshots_small

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/screenshots_large

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/css_current

http://s3.amazonaws.com/colorjacket.com/jackets/public/0000000001/css_00001

ColorJacket.com Use Cases

Create New Jacket (theme):

1. user uploads a new picture
2. system generates a new facebook theme (css) from the given picture
3. user can tweak the following generated parameters; palette color, background attributes
4. user can also tweak the css directly
5. user saves final jacket (public or private)

Create New Jacket from existing:

1. user chooses jacket to tweak
2. goto step 3 of “Create New Jacket” above