Archive for the 'Developer Diary' category

With all the buzz about web 2.0 almost dying down again, many wonder what web 3.0 will bring. Markus Weichselbaum, founder of TheBroth, discusses the web-that-was and the web-that-might-be. Read more

How is TheBroth different from other sites? How does it compare to myspace.com, youtube.com or flickr.com? Read to find out what’s similar, what’s different, and what’s so special about TheBroth! Read more

TheBroth Video News #1

We have our first video newsletter! Now, we had a new-features-video before, but this is different, as we’re going to send out the URL to the video to all registered members via email. Read more

Tada! After weeks of preparation, story board rewriting, composing, recording, cutting, editing, we now have our very first video about TheBroth! Read and even watch it right here! Read more

TheBroth utilizes the concept of parallel worlds in order to provide for hundreds of users to play in the same room simultaneously. This article explains why and how. Read more

My personal interest in GUI (graphical user interface) design and usability was recently rekindled when I watched a presentation by Barry Schwartz on Google Video (link). Professor Schwartz is the author of the book “The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less”.

Schwartz’s study deals with the notion that we have far too many choices in just about everything in our daily lives, leading to paralysis, stress and regret.

Many aspects of the “too much choice” phenomenon are highly relevant when it comes to application and web design.

Read on to learn how we implemented these ideas into a completely overhauled TheBroth home page, and discover how you can make YOUR site provide a better experience to your visitors! Read more

Folks, we had a major database disaster. We were offline for a good two hours and we lost almost a day’s worth of data.

If you have registered, created or edited a room in the 18 hours before the disaster, this information is probably lost. You may need to register again and/or setup your room again. You may also experience further malfunctions and bugs as a consequence of this incident.

I am truly sorry, as it looks like human error was involved in this. Most importantly, we’re back up and everything’s hunkydory, but if you’re interested in the details (Mysql 5.0 and InnoDB), so you won’t make the same mistake as I did, read on. Read more