Studio55 – for MTV3 @ Josh
Studio55 is a popular Finnish TV show airing every morning Monday to Friday. The target audience is men and women over the age of 55.
The Studio55 community is an implementation of the community platform XCAP. I was technical project owner, back-end developer and responsible for the server environment. We worked in a small team, where the front-end developers were located in Finland. I built a customer specific solution to make existing XCAP modules work together for the special day views on the site and functionality to import and cache XML data from an existing CMS-system into the site.
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Subject is a very popular Finnish community, connected to the TV channel MTV3. Users can upload videos and images and write eachother messages, but it is the forum that is the most used part with over one million entries in just a couple of years. The forum is the place to be to discuss the Finnish version of the Big Brother show and Idol!
For Subject I’ve been adding extra functionality such as photo galleries for the users and doing bug fixes when problems have appeared. I also handled the releases to the numerous servers.
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Nellad was a video community for teenagers in the Skåne area of Sweden. The Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan wanted to have a youth community and the goal was to get all kids playing in garage bands to have their bands on Nellad. In the beginning the site was popular, thanks to a band contest arranged by Sydsvenskan, but after the contest was over, the interest dropped. Nellad couldn’t compete with the larger sites with similar functionality, such as MySpace, and is now closed down.
In this project I implemented most of the functionality, customizing the XCAP modules to work for Nellad, trying to make the front-end coders’ work as easy as possible. I handled releases and servers and built functionality to make existing content from Sydsvenskan and cms content seamlessly integrate with the community.
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feminetik.se is a feminist community and discussion forum that flourished around 2004. It was founded by Josefine Alvunger and was originally a small ASP forum, when I stumbled upon it. I was a student, loving web programming but was starting to feel that school assignments just weren’t inspiring enough.
Josefine, back then a gender student, needed someone to do the programming of her visions and I wanted a playground. It was a perfect match. feminetik.se is built entirely by me, from scratch, in PHP and has played a large role in my learning programming.
feminetik.se has over 300 000 forum entries and has quite a lot of extra functionality to simplify the work of the moderators and hosts of the website, who can easily warn, mail or block users. The members have profile pages and guestbooks, and the site has image galleries and event calendars.
When I started to work full time and didn’t have time to develop feminetik.se anymore, Niklas Udd continued developing new functionality, such as feminetik’s themes and chat. Today I host the site on my server, but don’t do any programming.
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