I have also recently launched www.oorkaan.nl. This is the restyled website of Oorkaan. They organize concerts and musical productions for children. They are a non-profit, which I think is great. If you live in .nl and have children in the school-going age, I really recommend you visit one of their productions.
Over the years a pattern has emerged in my utilization of Rails plugins. These plugins have become so essential to my development workflow, that I can’t image creating a Rails app without them.
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Oh goodie! The new Zappelin website was launched just five minutes ago. I built the (HTML part of the) website in Ruby on Rails. It was a joy to create and in the coming weeks I have the honour to add lots of cool things to it as well.
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I am one of those old-skool web developers who write code using a text editor (vi, not emacs). Still I do appreciate evolutions in my field. And after completely abandoning writing javascript (instead resorting to jQuery or Prototype) I can now completely abandon writing CSS. Enter Blueprint, a CSS framework.
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OMG. I just finished the ultimate Snow Leopard review. Took me longer than Lord of the Rings! (yes, the book) It’s thourough, my friends. And technical. But if you’re a computer geek you should read it. There’s delicious treats to be found.
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to give you a whole slew of new/restyled websites and I am keeping my word. Today saw the launch of the whole-new www.omroep.nl (sort of like the BBC of the Netherlands). It’s in Rails, of course, and I did not build the front end but instead did one of the API systems this website uses.
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