The official site for Swedens presidency of the European Union was finally released the 1st of june. Besides being involved in every bit of this project, I did all the frontend work through numerous of design changes over the months. There are many cool features of this site, and some of them will not be revealed until certain times of the presidency. One of them is the calendar. It features a challenging design, a really advanced filtering function from the backend perspective, and a javascript that extends the accessible calendar into an infinite scrolling area (both downwards and upwards!).
The site was featured a lot in media, and still is. Dagens Nyheter called it "ambitious and well-designed", while Aftonbladet spend a whole column rating the different parts of the site. Internet legend "Paf" blogged about se2009.eu using IPv6 and DNSSEC. And of course Twitter have been pretty active.
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Unfortunately, I promised to stay at Cloud Nine only long enough to release the se2009.eu site. I've had a great time at that company and I wish them all the best in the future, hopefully I will have the privilege to work with them again sometime soon. But even if I had a very successful two years (Byggmax, Acando, First hotels, Inner and so on) I couldn't refuse the offer from EA/Dice. So since a few weeks back I'm now located at the Dice office, working on the game Battlefield Heroes. It's a childhood dream coming true working for a company like EA and Dice.
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Got the "HelloAndy" nickname on Facebook. I wanted this nickname really much, because I use it everywhere, but I'm now beginning to think I should've used my full name instead. Facebook is probably the site that describes me the best, and from a SEO point of view, I'd like hits on my name to link to all the content on Facebook.
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For my social media friends out there: I haven't forgotten you or disappeared and I haven't really gotten bored of social media either. I'm just not all too happy with how the whole thing works at the moment. Getting more excited about Google Wave and I really hope there will be a beta invitation for me some time soon.
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Oh, and I updated my portfolio with two other sites I did during 2008. Inner, which is a company health program made as a web application, and Acando, " a consultancy company that in partnership with its clients identifies and implements business improvements through information enabled by technology."
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