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I just counted the source lines of code of the current Shnitzl.org version and found something strange.

On the server-side we have about 5400 lines of code. I thought it would be more, but thats ok, the fewer lines the better. The strange thing happened when I counted the client-side code (the JavaScript code which runs in the browser). Here we have 6400 lines of code. 1000 lines more then the complete server-side (which is btw also written in JavaScript)!

Thats somehow strange. I think I have to refactor the client code and make it smaller. Maybe I can also kick out some useless third-party libraries.

Yesterday I deployed an update to Shnitzl that allows users to add a picture to their profiles. Now, you cannot only upload your image but you can also resize and crop the image right in the browser. Check it out. I hope you’ll like it!

Further, venues now come with tag-clouds (made from all the tags of all events of the venue) and the welcome screen got a refreshment.
Finally, a bunch of bugs were fixed. We hope you like the update!

Well, the current version of Shnitzl.org was written completely by myself, and to be precise: I wrote it three times! One initial version, which was live before the current one, and afterwards two complete rewrites which were never released publicly.

But handling a reasonably big website is a huge task, so we are expanding the team! The first two new members are Chris Langreiter and Andreas Bolka (earl), who accompanied Shnitzl from the very start. Chris is great for ideas and a general vision (and he also helps with Safari testing :). Andreas takes care of the servers Shnitzl is running on and he is also a gifted programmer and will join development. I myself still do everything: architecture, development, design, marketing …

And then there is the newest member Miraldo Fific, a long-time friend of mine! He is a little bored with his day-programming job so he is starting to work on Shnitzl during the night :)

Currently we are working on some really nice features! It will make Shnitzl a little more cosy place to hang out at! So stay tuned, the new features will go online in a few day.

Well, it’s time to reactivate this little lonely blog here. Almost forgot that it exists.

As earl has mentioned, the new Shnitzl is online! This is a complete rewrite of shnitzl.org and now comes with funky map-features, amongst other things.

Along with the fresh release, we got ourselves a nice customer service account over at Get Satisfaction! Check it out: http://getsatisfaction.com/shnitzl. There you can ask questions about shnitzl.org, bring in ideas or report problems. We’ve also added a link to getsatisfaction on the bottom of every page on shnitzl.org. Hope you like it!

Anton has released an all new version of Shnitzl. Go check it out!

we experienced some database troubles from which we are currently recovering. please bear with us while we investigate this issue.

hi all!

just rolled out a little update. now the google-earth views work with the new beta version of the google earth 4 browser. another view updates are in the queue. stay tuned

p.s. i also installed a anti-spam plugin, so hopefully we will not get this stupid comments any more.

we had a memory consumption issue during the last few days and at one point shnitzl was basically out of service (”java heap space” errors, you may have seen ‘em :). sorry for that, we’re working on it. service quality should be back to normal at the moment, enjoy!

.. for not writing any news. i was quite busy because i finished my studies and finally got my Master of Science. Last week I was on a Bike-Trip to Praque so nothing shnitzl-specific happened.

but hopefully i have more time in the next few weeks to make some cool stuff for the shnitzl. right now i am coding on an wizard for the katchup, but there are some other features that i would love to have as soon as possible (like reminder-emails)

If you are a Firefox user and you worked with Shnitzl for some time during the last weeks, you might have encountered some odd blank pages once in a while. Typically, after some browsing through your own events or some tag-views you wanted to return to the home page and there it was: a blank page. We’re happy to report that — after some diligent debugging — this problem should be fixed now. Happy shnitzling!