I was approach by Peg Digital to help with a new project they were working on for Nickelodeon. The new project would be a series of games for the Infinity Islands. As part of this game there would be an option for players to upload an image as part of a “Scoreboard” and Nickelodeon requested that these images be saved to a database, and be retrieved at a later point and displayed at user request.

The approach I took was to build an API and incorporate their current use of JavaScript by giving them my own JavaScript Client library to hit the PHP API in the back end. The API had to handle various tasks, passing back relevant information to the front end for the site to use, such as saving and retrieving images, getting gallery’s and in later days, serving reports on user interaction with the API. As well as this I also had to set up the Amazon Web Services host which runs this back end. This all had to be done with regular communication to the client, keeping everything secure to adhere to data protection when using the API, and overcoming new challenges when requirements changed or were added in.

The project faced it’s own challenges, after the API was set up to handle image capturing the storage space on the host server starting to reach it’s limit, and after live release the RAM limitations of the server meant some quick refactoring and code redesign needed to be implemented in order to get the server running smoothly.

The project was delivered on time, with positive feedback from the client.