Developed the back end of this Flash site aimed at children. Panda Maas is the children’s mascot of Maasstad Ziekenhuis in Rotterdam. He lives in this website, where you can meet the doctors, ask questions, hear jokes, download drawings and wander through the hospital. The entire website is Rails 3 on SQLite with a great deal of cache optimizations. Continue reading →

In 2009 I developed several plugins for Radio 6, the national music station for Soul and Jazz. The plugins showed the Electronic Programme Guide and let visitors browse past broadcasts and listen to the streams. In 2010 the entire website was restyled and rebuilt from scratch by me in WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) I continue maintenance of the website and add new features every month, it’s recently been upgraded to WordPress 3.2. Continue reading →

For Stichting C3 I developed this WordPress 3 website aimed at children. It contains a lot of information about chemistry and has the goal of making this knowledge more accessible for primary education students. One of the most interesting aspects are the experiments you can perform at home. I used mostly prebuilt templates and standard WordPress functionality which allowed the customer to go online in a small amount of time. Continue reading →

The younger sister of Z@PP, Z@ppelin is a TV channel aimed at children up to 7 years of age. The channel was rebranded in 2009 and with it came an entirely new website. I built it from scratch using the latest RoR tricks of the trade. The back end is formed by my custom CMS which is now becoming a very slick and versatile tool. It has full spec coverage and communicates to various flash apps using XML. Continue reading →

TV Channel for children and a large web community about its shows. Took over developing this CMS from Zapp employees and built and expanded immensely since then. Designed Single Sign-On for various third-party apps such as the mixer. REST API used extensively by suppliers and partners. Every show on this channel can be watched via this website; an API link to the Electronic Programme Guide is present. Continue reading →

Netherland’s biggest radio station for news and sports went live with the first Ruby on Rails installation used by the public broadcasters. I built the entire site from scratch. Almost everything is resourcefully routed. Performance is a huge concern since this website sees peak loads during major events like Tour de France. Runs on a server cluster with many Mongrel front ends and a custom tuned MySQL. Noteworthy are the huge number of feeds coming into the system every five minutes; almost 80 in total. Continue reading →