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Hey,
I wanted to share this story today with you as it is a very special milestone in my career as a developer.
Recently (say, about a half year ago) I got the chance to start working with a rock band here in Austria. They are no newbies, having already 5 albums produced, are performing live really great, they played on the "Donauinselfest" in Vienna, a Rock Festival with more than a million visitors in only two days; they have their own studio and make really great music.
It happened that I know their lead guitarist personally but I didn't know that he was a musician, he was never bragging around or behaved as he was "someone special". One day of course while we were talking, we had the point where he told me, what he was doing in the evening ...  And so one thing led to the other...
My daughter and I joined them in their studio, she even could sing a duet with the lead voice of the band (I have the video here... an amazing experience for a 14-year-old-teenager girl!)
And during a break that evening we talked a bit all together, I told them that I am a mobile developer and so I got the chance to create their App! They wanted an official content App, containing their albums, songs, lyrics, embedded youtube videos from their channel, live concerts, biographys, a contact option, and..and..and.
Today we are only a few weeks away from the launch party (they play a concert just to introduce the app to the world!) and as we had some good chats the last days, doing the roadmap for the launch, finalizing the content in the app and all that stuff, I am getting really excited by now
I must say, after almost 30 years as a developer, the last months working with those guys was something new and amazing for me! This is gonna be a very special app for me as it really feels, that I "helped" somebody, that I could do things someone really needs.
While some xml-layouts and fancy animations here and there are nothing very special to ME, they earned a lot of "ooohhh's" and "aaaah's" from the band. For them, this is something "yeaaaah baby!" 
This project just makes me feel sooo good. Something I missed (or lost) during the years, doing one project after the other...
This one is special. I love it. And thats why I share it with you!
Thanks for reading!
Cheers, Mike
And: ROCK ON!
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Huh. I didn't expect to read a post from a fellow 'Wiener' here
Nice read, surely fun to work on something without stress, corporate guidelines and standards forced upon you
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*winkt zurück* Servus 
Yes it is - I am getting a bit nervous as they told me that they will "call me up to the stage" during the concert to present the author of the app... 
Second thing that makes me nervous is... I am a hobby-drummer, played for years and of course they know that... Might well be, that I will take the drums for a song during the concert to play along with them... Now THIS is a bit a scary imagination... on stage... oO
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Whhooo! You better practice their songs, nothing messes a band up like a drummer that's off time...
Good luck - and post a video!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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nothing is more funny 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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What's the difference between a drummer and the rest of the band?
About half a count 
*Ba dum tsss*
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A band consists of musicians and a Drummer, I was told
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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If I don't get banned for advertising, I will happily share the video after the concert
(It's on June 24 in Vienna)
Someone asked, if the Band has a name - Yes of course, but I can't tell here - not before the Launch.
I'd love to share a video link of the 3 favorite songs for me from them - but ... no. not today
They are not known in the u.s. for sure - It's not a big name like the earlier mentioned AC/DC - but they play since almost 20 years together, changing single persons now and then, but all the time the same core and the same style of music.
If you want to know what kind of music - think about 3 Doors down mixed with Nickleback and some harder riffs like Iron Maiden would play.
All melodical music, no trash, and every time, I introduced someone to their music (who didn't know the Band), they all asked for more --- but of course, the close contact I have with them makes me "more" of a fan as I would maybe be if I didn't have personal contact.
But no matter how you look at it, if you like a strong male voice, singing guitars and good drum beats, this is something you'd enjoy.
Some ballads are for darkened rooms  but there are many songs that are dangerous for you if you're alone in the car on the highway at night...
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Mike Barthold wrote: Someone asked, if the Band has a name - Yes of course, but I can't tell here - not before the Launch.
I'd love to share a video link of the 3 favorite songs for me from them - but ... no. not today
And this says a lot about you... in the good way (or at least the way I like)
If I don't forget it, I will come back to know more in sommer, after the launch and the concerts... I now am very curious / excited about their music (and your app)
M.D.V.
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Mike Barthold wrote: If you want to know what kind of music - think about 3 Doors down mixed with Nickleback and some harder riffs like Iron Maiden would play.
Darn. I was hoping it was EAV.
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Does this band has a Name?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That would take it too close to advertising. Not allowed in the Lounge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cool...
0x01AA wrote: I'm the second from left 
somehow I had thought you were much older...
M.D.V.
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I did'nt wrote the second drummer
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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What's their advertising tagline, "Join the Swiss Army"?
I think we can afford to let a few ads like that through.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was at Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2011, great performance
Glad to have seen it live at least once in my life
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How the hell is that advertising?
I've posted a music video every week for the past year and people posted music video's back.
Never was it marked as advertising (for as far as I know).
It's just posting about your hobby, or in this case work.
It's not like he's saying "you should buy the newest album of this band now!"
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But you have nothing to do with the music you posted 
M.D.V. 
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Somewhat different, but I've experienced that working with hardware engineers and the pleasure of all of us seeing the hardware "come to life" with the software, and vice-versa. Hardware engineering is definitely artistry, not just in this day and age of auto-routing PC boards, but watching how an engineer figures out how best to route the power and ground lines, deal with line noise, select appropriate chips and figure out how (especially on the little SBC's like an rPi) to address the different components in the software, etc.
It's also a pleasure when I work with a software engineer that puts together and architecture and writes code with artistry in mind!
Marc
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That's a cool history. Glad to see that after all the time in the industry there can still be projects where you get back to this kind of feelings. It gives a bit of optimism / hope in the future again.
I am happy for you and on the same time envy you for the months you had but I don't envy you to be called on the stage... I prefer to stay on the side, behind the courtains 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A great story, Mike! 
/ravi
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Congratulations !
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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