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Three projects that show how we work. A good part of what we do sits behind login screens and cannot be shown; these three we are allowed to name.

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What these three show

The projects come from the portfolio of aceArt GmbH, the firm behind this site. They are deliberately different from each other.

Fischführer is the Laravel project in the narrow sense. A backend serving several apps, delivering content, and dealing with the peculiarity that its users are standing by the water where there is rarely a signal. How we cut backends like that is under API and backend development.

Ferien mit Hund runs on WordPress. The CMS is the uninteresting part. What is interesting is the interface behind it, importing more than 150,000 places to stay and reconciling them daily. Backend work, regardless of what finally delivers the pages. Tasks like these are described under connecting existing systems.

Lakof BW runs on TYPO3 and stands here for something else. For duration. Since 2019 it has been developed further, supported and kept on maintained PHP versions. Exactly the work we describe under maintenance and support. And the reason we ask, on every new project, who will be looking after it in three years.

Projekte

Three projects in detail

The projects come from the portfolio of aceArt GmbH, the firm behind this site. Each one names the technology actually used, including where that is not Laravel, and what the project demonstrates for a Laravel undertaking.

  • Several smartphone views of the Fischführer app side by side: a directory of fish species, a detail view with a photo, and the icon of the Baden-Württemberg edition.

    Angling · associations in nine German states

    Fischführer: an app with a Laravel backend

    The Laravel project in the narrow sense: a backend serving several apps, delivering content and providing images in several sizes.

    Starting point
    Anglers need dependable figures on species, closed seasons and minimum sizes while they are out. Those figures differ by state and they change.
    Brief
    One iOS and one Android app built on Ionic, with a Laravel backend behind them as the single source. The apps had to work without a network, because they are used at the water.
    Outcome
    Guides for nine German states. Content is loaded from the backend and cached on the device, so the app carries on offline. The backend scales images down into several sizes and packs them into archives from which each device pulls the ones matching its screen.
    • Laravel
    • Ionic
    • iOS & Android
    • Offline cache
    • Image scaling

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  • Several angled screen views of the Ferien mit Hund portal: a map search with markers for places to stay, a home page with a beach photo and a search bar, and a list view, alongside the logo Ferien mit Hund seit 1999.

    Travel · online portal

    Ferien mit Hund: 150,000 places to stay through one interface

    Backend and integration work: the hard part was not the CMS but reconciling daily with somebody else’s system.

    Starting point
    The accommodation data sat with the provider BestFewo. Anyone wanting to book left the portal, and in search terms the content counted for somebody else.
    Brief
    The places to stay were to live in the portal itself: imported, searchable, bookable. Along with a running reconciliation so that availability and prices are right.
    Outcome
    More than 150,000 places to stay are imported through an XML interface; an automated run reconciles availability and prices daily. The data now sits with the operator. We have looked after the platform for several years.
    • WordPress
    • Elementor
    • XML interface
    • Automated reconciliation
  • Several angled screen views of the Lakof BW website: a home page with the coloured areas for academics, universities and equal opportunity officers along with a list of dates, plus sub-pages and the logo of the state conference.

    Higher education · state conference, Baden-Württemberg

    Lakof BW: two sites under continuous care since 2019

    How we stay with applications for years: continuous development, support and moving PHP versions along before it gets urgent.

    Starting point
    The state conference of equal opportunity officers runs an information site and a database site with processes of their own that keep growing.
    Brief
    Develop and run both sites rather than building them once and leaving them. That includes an application process for teaching assignments across a large number of universities.
    Outcome
    Continuous development since 2019 in close coordination with the Lakof team, technical support through the year, and current PHP and TYPO3 versions. Exactly the work we describe under maintenance and support.
    • TYPO3
    • PHP
    • Support & maintenance
    • since 2019

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FAQ

Questions about our work

Two of the three projects do not run on Laravel. Why are they here?
Because they show what a Laravel undertaking needs just as much: an interface reconciling daily with somebody else’s system, and an application maintained over years rather than built once. We could keep quiet about the framework and file both as “web projects”. It is stated because it would come up in conversation anyway, and because the task is more interesting than the CMS underneath it.
Why are there not more projects here?
Many of our projects are internal applications behind a login, and the client has good reasons not to show them publicly. We name no names without explicit permission, not even by implication. In conversation we can point to comparable projects.
Can we speak to somebody who has worked with you?
As a rule, yes. We then ask a client with a similar brief whether they are willing to have a short conversation. That is more honest than a quotation on a website that nobody can check.

A comparable case at your end?

Describe the starting point briefly. We will tell you whether we have done something similar and what was different about it.

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