Metalgigs GigFinder

The Metalgigs GigFinder is the official Metalgigs Windows 8 Store App and provides the user with easy access to concerts of his favorite bands in germany and austria.

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Challenges

  • Creating a Win 8 Store App for the News & Weather category in under one week

Technical Details

  • This App was built using Ajax, HTML and CSS
  • Runs on Windows 8 Tablet and Desktop Systems
  • Built with the Metalgigs XML API

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GigMeUp – Android

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Challenges

  • Learning the Android SDK
  • Learning and implementing all the requirements for a Google Play Store App
  • Giving the App an Android 4.x look and navigation while developing for Android 2.2
  • Integrating some advanced features like the user location

Technical Details

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Metalgigs API

Metalgigs has of course a (at the moment private) central REST API to supply the various Metalgigs apps and partner sites with events and handle most of the AJAX calls from Metalgigs itself.

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  • unpublished

Challenges

  • Creating a REST webservice that is flexible enough to handle all the necessary calls, while offering a standardized interface and avoiding redundancy

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Eadmin Tool + EPrints Scripts

The Eadmin tool was a commercial project I did as part of my job at the DBIS department of Ulm University. They required a web tool to manage part of their day-to-day business like new publications, projects and their supply stock. A big part of this tool are the Python scripts, that handle the interaction with their EPrints system and the creation of embeddable views for their website.

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  • private Project

Challenges

  •  coming soon…

Technical Details

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Metalgigs.de + Metalgigs.at

Features

  • coming soon…

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Challenges

  • Tuning the MySQL and PHP performance to fit a website with thousands of calls per day
  • Usage of proper SEO techniques to increase the reach

Technical Details

  • Metalgigs itself has around 40.000 lines of code, but as my knowledge of PHP greatly increased since I started Metalgigs.de in 2008, I have rewritten and refactored every line of code at least once. So the lines of code I’ve written for this project might be closer to 100.000.
  • Metalgigs relies heavily on Microformats for search engine friendly event data

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