HungryGoWhere Development Project

The company is wholly owned subsidiary of Asia’s leading communication group. It was created with a vision to build the country’s lifestyle Web destination that gives consumers rich and up-to-date content on a daily basis, allowing them to make informed decisions for their everyday needs.

Customer required developing the new web application within 3 months:

• The new website will revamp the old inSing.com Food channel and integrate with the best feature of the old Hungrygowhere.com site.
• The website provides its user with information about Singapore’s best food and dinning guide, from recipes and restaurant online reservation to hawker and buffet.
• The pages are designed to be responsive so that they can adapt to different screen sizes: smart phones, tablets, and desktop.
• The website supports content management system where administrator can manage group of users, the contents, food, etc.

• The production site was launched two months after the project was kicked off even if the clear requirements were not provided at the beginning.
• User access was not affected during the transition from the old site to the newly revamped site.

Leveraging experience in Web development projects, particularly with LAMP environment, the projects is based on Symfony 2.0 as a Web development framework and Doctrine 2.0 as an ORM. Other frontend technologies including LESS, media requires, sprite CSS are also employed.

Programming

• PHP 5.3
• Symfony 2.0
• Doctrine 2.0
• AJAX/Javascript/CSS3/HTML5

Database

• MySQL 5.3

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• Nginx/PHP-FPM

Tools

• TortoiseSVN
• Git
• Jira

Browsers

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9
• Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
• Google Chrome (latest version)
• Safari on Mac OS
• Default Web browser for Android devices
• Default Web browser for iOS devices

Operating Systems

• MS Windows XP
• MS Windows 7
• Ubuntu Linux