For those that don’t know, Austin is sometimes referred to as Silicon Hills, a play on the whole Silicon Valley name.
As far as music goes, Austin is the LIVE music capital of the world, so it seemed only a matter of time before someone made a web page that would show you all the shows until the end of the year.
That time came this afternoon, AYearOfAustinMusic.com was born. Daniel was showing Kevin some stuff that he had been working on for his own personal use, in regards to tracking musical shows and within those few moments Kevin found himself some inspiration.
Kevin showed me what he had thrown together and asked me to put it up on Jules, my beloved server up in Dallas. I got everything setup and within a few minutes of Kevin finishing the DNS up on GoDaddy, the site was live on Jules.
I took a few minutes after work closed up and got the code checked into my personal repository and also took the liberty of installing Google Analytics.
Before Kevin took off he was already talking about some cool JavaScript effects that he could work into the next version.
It is amazing how quickly one can create a very dynamic web app. Just sprinkle in a little RSS and throw on some CSS to make it all ‘purdy’ (some PUN intended).
Anyway, I have finished my acceptance testing of Release 2.0 and need to get out of here.
Laterz.
(almost forgot, if you scroll to the bottom, you will see the “credits”)