Development News

November 12, 2006

Josh Greenberg
Chief Technology Officer

The development team has grown substantially over the past few weeks, and we’re moving forward in every direction. We’re working on streamlining a lot of the processes that are going to make up Grooveshark into a reliable system that will work quickly and easily on any major browser.

Right now, we have a few key areas that we’re working on developing:

» The downloadable “helper” application, mostly in Java, which will facilitate file transfers and handle library monitoring
» The database for containing all of our information, which is being handled with MySQL
» The classes for interfacing the frontend with the database, written in PHP
» The code for handling Ajax calls on the backend, written in PHP
» The frontend itself, written mostly in jQuery [ http://www.jquery.com/ ]
» The actual module designs, made in Photoshop and converted to XHTML/CSS

Anyway, we’re building the prototype in stages, and we’re making progress across the board. At this point, we have two modules almost entirely finished, the database entirely structured, and most of the PHP classes written. The jQuery and Ajax work keep piling up, but we’re digging through it every day.

If you have any thoughts on features you’d like to see in Grooveshark, let us know! You can reach us by filling out the contact form on this site, and we’d love to hear your thoughts.