HQ Mix Trophy - Interactivity

Trade Name:

HQ Mix Trophy

Segment:

Interactivity

About the Client:

The HQ Mix Trophy was created in 1988 by the publisher Gualberto Costa and by the cartoonist José Alberto Lovetro (JAL), and sponsored by the famous communicator, Serginho Groisman, as part of a TV show called TV MIX presented on TV Gazeta São Paulo, with intention to disseminate, develop and reward the production of comics, cartoons, animations and other similar items by category, representing itself through the Cartoonists Association of Brazil (ACB). Since 2004 the trophy has been administered by ACB and IMAG - Memorial Institute of Graphic Arts of Brazil. The trophy is currently considered the "Oscar" of Brazilian cartoonists and it has already had an international impact. 

Case:

Cálix has developed an online voting system for the HQMIX trophy. The voting system has been used since its construction to hold the votes of about 2,000 professionals in 46 different categories.
 
Designed to be web-based, the system is totally secure and audited by OAB / SP when each trophy is awarded. Annually, professionals in this area access the system from anywhere using the internet to vote and honor the work of Brazilian cartoonists.

Tools and Technologies Applied:

Apache® Web Server: Currently the most successful free web server. It was created in 1995 by Rob McCool at the time was an employee of the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). In a survey conducted in May 2010, Apache served approximately 54.68% of all websites and over 66% of the million busiest websites. It is the core technology of the Apache Software Foundation, responsible for over a dozen projects involving transmission through web technologies, data processing and execution of distributed applications.

PHP®: Free interpreted programming language, created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 and maintained by an organization called The PHP Group. It is free software licensed under the PHP License, and widely used today for developing web applications. Facebook® is a great example of an application developed with this programming language..

MySQL®: Database Management System (DBMS) that uses SQL (Structured Query Language) as the interface.  MySQL is one of the most popular data bases today, with over 10 million installations worldwide. Among users of the MySQL database include: NASA, Friendster, Banco Bradesco, Dataprev, HP, Nokia, Sony, Lufthansa, US Army, US Federal Reserve Bank, Associated Press, Alcatel, Slashdot, Cisco Systems, Google, and others.

Unified Modeling Language® (UML): A non proprietary third-generation modeling language which allows developers to view the products of their work in standardized diagrams to represent: structure, behavior, clustering, and annotation.


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