About

About …

… Us

Triptivity are Thorsten Krebs and Marc Christopher Schmidt. We started back in 2008 with our travel portal. Mainly we do it for the fun of it – but of course we want to keep in touch with programming. And hey, let’s be honest – isn’t it cool to create a travel portal?

… Travelfusion

Travelfusion is our travel content provider, located in London. Established in the late 1990′s they have a robust and  fast XML api for flights, cars and hotels. The team is very supportive and we enjoy working together. As London is not to far away from Cologne, we meet from time to time and build up some kind of friendship. You can find them under www.travelfusion.com.

… Technologies used

Well, we whole bunch of technologies for running the site. Here we are going to name a few.

Play Framework! – Developing

The basis of our travel portal is build with the Play Framework! It is based on Java and you might say that this frameworks incorporates “best of Java technologies” like Groovy or Hibernate. There are many thing to like about the framework. For example it supports background jobs out of the box or that you can start to develop Play apps straight away – no need for additional software like a database or web server. The package comes with everything included. And yes – this framework is open source. You can find this framework under www.playframework.org.

Hosteurope – Internet hosting

To run our servers, we us Hosteurope, located in Cologne. They have an excellent service and an extremely fast internet connection. We decided to use them as they have a relatively new data center which was build very energy efficient. You can reach them under Website CO2 neutral hosted by Host Europe.

Bitbucket – Issue management

For issue-management, wiki and code hosting we use Bitbucket. Their code hosting is build upon Mercurial which comparable to Git. The service they provide is simple but efficient and can be well integrated with your development environment – which was important for us. You can find this service under bitbucket.org

Play Font

Again “Play”??? This time it is not about the framework but about the font we use for Triptivity. The selection of a font is important for your web site. It should be clear, very readable and different to stand out against other web sites.We decided to use the Play font from the danish designer Jonas Hecksher. He has many more fonts on his web site www.playtype.com. The font comes in different variants and gives our travel portal a unic appearance. As we use the Google web font service, Triptivity will look identical on any computer. You can find the font under www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Play&subset=latin.