Joakim Hedlund
Web-tech junkie
Joakim Hedlund is a 22-year old web developer from Sweden. With experience from frontend, backend, and inbetween-end he has gained lots of knowledge about HTML5, jQuery, CSS, PHP, and a lot of other abbreviations.
I love exploring new technology. If I can get my hands on it, I can do magic with it.
I wrote an app to search the Stockholm apartment rental queue. It was built on Phonegap (with Build) so that I could use the technologies I love; HTML5 and CSS3.
The app features a localStorage cache, a serverside API over JSON, and realtime filtering of search results thanks to jQuery Mobile.
We were tasked with showing the company's activity on social networks. I ended up writing a library in PHP for fetching, processing, and caching the data.
On top of the cached data we refresh it, via jQuery in the client's browser, in realtime for a smooth experience.
I used to have a pet squirrel! He climbed the walls outside our apartment on the third floor, and came in through the window to eat hazel nuts.
There's plenty of footage, but you'll have to settle with this one picture for now. :-)
In highschool I hosted a game server, and needed a website for it. Because vBulletin was the - IMHO - best forum software available at the time, it was used as the core solution.
I wrote account management, highscores, character statistics, clan bridges and much more between vBulletin and the OpenTibia server.
This was my first real web development experience.
I programmatically converted Word documents into HTML templates with dynamic string replacement for a PDF contract generator.
Among other things I used Google Docs' API and wkhtmltopdf.
When I found out we had a Google Mini lying around the office that nobody were using I thought it was christmas all over again.
After that I set up the crawler and created a search engine frontend with multilingual support and keyword suggestions. Results were delivered over internal network to webserver via XML, and then parsed accordingly.
Because there were no sufficiently simple (and free) wikis for vBulletin I wanted to dig deeper into extending the platform, and ended up with a wiki that I released on vBulletin.org.
What separated my wiki from the others was mainly the concept of using a hidden forum board for storing pages. Threads represented pages and posts revisions.