Business Focused Application Development

Project: Black Market Activities

Black Market Activities

www.blackmarketactivies.com

Black Market Activities is an independent record label based out of Revere Massachusetts. Founded by Guy Kozowyk of The Red Chord, BMA has been a home to several ground breaking bands such as The Red Chord, From A Second Story Window and Sleep Terror. The sound of their releases can be categorized in the metal, grind, hardcore, noise, thrash and just about every other "extreme" sub-genre and genre combination thinkable.

What Was Done

The first task I had to conquer for Black Market Activities was migrating their purely static website from one host to another. Once the site was migrated, Mike at The Nontoxic Group and I took to the task of some minor page redesigns and laying the groundwork for the use of a new system to power the News and Tour Dates sections of the site. The Black Market Activities site was actually one of the first uses of Hermes and I wrote a set of custom PHP objects for the site to communicate with the CMS. A year later, I was tapped again to help migrate the site to another host. At that time I took the oppurtunity to implement standard Hermes Objects on multiple areas of the site includes news, tour dates, artist roster, discography and their often used splash page.

Technologies Used

  • PHP5
  • Hermes Objects
  • Subversion

Hire Me

Mike Hickey
moc.sebuc72@ofni
+1 434-27C-UBES (272-8237)