Jimmy Fallon taking over the Tonight Show for NBC marked the changing of the tide in America. I was lucky enough to be part of the team that concepted, prototyped, and built the Tonight Shows website.

The app was built using drupal for a content mangement system, delivering json to the Android, iOS, and Web client. The Web Application used backbone and marionette to parse the content and turn it into bite-sized bits of consumable content.

One of the primary challenges on this poject was to build all 3 applications, including the CMS within 1-month of Jimmy Fallon's premier. We were able to do this by running concurrent teams with an extremely detailed agile development flow that released multiple versions based on features up to and after the torch was handed off to the new host.

One of the largest challenges I faced was creating a custom ad delivery system that worked within a single page application. This is due to the old-school way advertisments are loaded into an application paired with how single-page applications only render new content. At the end I created a custom library that integrated with backbone event handlers to understand when new advertisments should load based on new content, page loads, video events and other custom interactions.

Overall, the project was a huge success. Even Jimmy noted on air that his web and mobile application "worked!"