TornadoTalk

This hits googles maps API to demonstrate the asynchronous abilities of Python Tornado Web Server

##Requirements:

###Google API Key:

• Log in to your google account and go here: https://console.developers.google.com/project
• Create a new project
• Wait for it to create
• Go to APIs and Auth
• Find the 'Google Maps Engine API'
• Click on the title
• Click the off button to turn it on
• Go to the 'Credintials' link under the API link
• Under the Public API access section click "Create New Key"
• Select "Browser Key"
• Click "Create" (Leaving the text box blank)

##Mac/Linux Now you have an api key that you can put into application/main.py for the api_key variable. If you are on Windows and For the mac and linux users these things are fairly simple to install:

• Python3
• pip
• virturalenv

##Windows users:

####Get Git http://windows.github.com/

####Get Python

• If you don't already have python scroll to the bottom here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5/
• Then download the: Windows x86 MSI installer

####Make it run from command line (Windows 8 - if less than Windows 8 find out how to edit your environment variables)

• Search Control Panel for 'environment variables' and click to edit them
• Follow the instructions here to add your Python folder: http://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html#finding-the-python-executable
• Go ahead and add /Scripts to your environment variables as well
• Verify you have python in your cmd by opening up your command line and typing:

python -V

• Great job!
• Now download the following files into your python/Scripts directory (the same one you added to your environment variables)
• https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
• https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
• Use your command line prompt, navigate to the Scripts folder where you saved the files and run

python ez_setup.py
python get-pip.py

Assuming this all went successful type:

pip install virtualenv

#Instructions:

Clone this repo letting it make default folder of TornadoTalk

#For Mac and Linux users
virtualenv TornadoTalk
cd TornadoTalk
source bin/activate
pip install tornado

#For Windows
virtualenv TornadoTalk
cd TornadoTalk
Scripts/activate.bat
pip install tornado

Now edit application/main.py to have your api key

To start the application up simply type:

python applicaton/main.py

go to localhost:8000