Here's a first pass at using shielded

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Addresses #15 as well as (hopefully) https://github.com/olivierlacan/shields/issues/15.

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• rewrite classes for colors available in shielded
• write post_compile to install shielded into our dyno slug
• redeploy at http://origin.badgr.co/ (no HTTPS)
• shielded is very slow (~2s per img). This would be a great place for a Redis cache keyed to the shielded call.
• We should cache our calls to backend services, per the caching headers they set. Went with a configurable timeout for this that is global to all services, rather than looking at cache headers per-service.
• put MaxCDN in front of this, on https://badgr.co/ and http://badgr.co/ ($39/mo for EdgeSSL vs. $20/mo for Heroku SSL)

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Woo-hoo! :D

http://origin.badgr.co/

[chadwhitacre]

Caching shielded calls in redis. Working great! Need to cache HTTP calls to backends and then put a CDN in front of ourselves. Then we're down to finishing touches, I think, before we really start promoting this (tinker with homepage, implement another service or four).

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• tweak favicon.ico for non-flatness
• make whatever changes to the homepage we're going to make
• clean up the code contribution story (default_local.env, at least)
• move python deps to a submodule
• reset the repo with a force push to clear out heavy accumulated cruft
• circle in @olivierlacan @ackerdev et al. to coordinate launch promotion