Our web communities primarily target 18-30 year olds with a focus on music therefore we place a high importance on cutting edge design and brand development.

The Role

The successful candidate will be working on both the development of the core web offerings as well as external client projects for high profile sponsors.

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of Javascript (including Object Oriented coding methodologies), CSS, HTML and template systems such as Smarty, with a working knowledge of the PHP/MySQL environment.

This role would ideally suit an experienced technically minded web developer with a proven track record in previous similar roles who has the ability to work to deadlines and produce high quality web sites and user interfaces. Working as part of a highly skilled team and reporting directly to the Technical Director, you will be able to take direction and communicate effectively with the team.

You will need to be interested in music and be passionate about design, the web and the infinite possibilities this exciting medium offers. Your role will be varied, but include tasks such as:

• Taking Photoshop based designs and converting into working websites, utilising your strong CSS, Javascript, HTML and templating skills

• Working with designers to create dynamic user interfaces

• Implementing & maintaining AJAX and jQuery driven interfaces throughout existing and new areas of our websites

If you want to be a part of this young, fun and dynamic company then send your resume and cover letter to jobs@thesoundalliance.net

Applications close Wednesday 6th October

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of Javascript (including Object Oriented coding methodologies), CSS, HTML and template systems such as Smarty and FastTemplate. The successful candidate will be working on both the development of the core web offerings as well as external client projects.

This role will suit an experienced, technically-minded front end web developer with a proven track record in previous similar roles who has the ability to work to deadlines and produce high quality web sites and user interfaces.

Working as part of a growing team and reporting directly to the Technical Director, you will be able to take direction and communicate effectively with team members at different levels of the organisation. You’ll be our ideal fit if you are interested in music and be passionate about design, the web and the infinite possibilities this exciting medium offers.

Your role will be varied, but include tasks such as:

• Taking Photoshop based designs and converting into working websites, utilising your strong CSS, Javascript, HTML and templating skills
• Designing or working with designers, to create user interfaces for new features on our web portals
• Implementing & maintaining web 2.0 functionality such as AJAX and jQuery throughout existing and new areas of our websites

If you want to be a part of this young, fun and dynamic company then send your resume and cover letter to jobs@thesoundalliance.net

Applications close 30 September

For each of our media properties, we keep regular tabs on important KPI’s like new members, subscribers, forum posts and the like. Each month, each business creates a monthly report from these KPI’s using data from the websites and some custom Excel programming that we’ve done. It’s a little cumbersome and prone to errors and mistakes.

The proper way to do it would be to use some reporting suite like JasperReports to create a reporting portal for each business – but time just has not allowed to look into this.

But there might be another way. With the move to SaaS providers in many areas of business, I guess it was only a matter of time for this to move into the Business Intelligence space. I’ve recently come across the GoodData system, which looks quite interesting. It’s effectively a fully outsourced BI reporting platform, running on Amazon EC2. I’m yet to fully put it through it’s paces, but initially, the ability to create reports, present dashboards, control user access through privileges & upload data either through a web interface or via APIs all looks very promising – especially for the current price.. Free!

I hope to get some time to give it a proper trial soon, but this space is definitely hotting up – as I noticed Rightscale have teamed with Jaspersoft to offer BI inthe Cloud also.

Thanks for stopping by our blog. As the development team for the Sound Alliance, we’re responsible for running the development program on our web portals inthemix.com.au, FasterLouder.com.au & SameSame.com.au, as well as our ticketing business Qjump.com.au and any other work that comes our way.

Our sites are classic LAMP sites, MVC OO PHP5 with a smattering of legacy procedural stuff in there (we have been up & running for close to 10 years).

We’ll be posting articles here giving an insight into how we work, solutions we’ve come up with or things that have inspired the team. You might also see some sillyness from time to time.. So, we hope you’ll come back and say hi from time to time.