2010!

First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! May it be a fantastic, exciting year for all of you and may all your dreams and goals be realised!

Some important changes coming this year, most important is, of course, that BE inspired is no longer mine! My company has been handed over to 3 of the [...]

No manual policy

How to choose a cms
Just my 2 cents

In my career so far I have come across many Content Management Systems. My goal with this list is to provide a few pointers, things to avoid when looking into a cms product for your website. I will not be naming (and bashing) any specific systems as this [...]

Photojepa.com

isnt that just the cutest domain

photojepa.com needs to be said with Scandinavian accent for full "awwwww so cute" effect.
Kind of like this:   foto-yeah-pah! Has a bit of an japanime feeling to it. kaawaaai!

Anyhoo its a domain for Jenni whom i am going to help with a website to promote her photography [...]

Hyperserver

Recently starting on building a Hyperserver for TROI. In a nutshell its a webserver with heavy hardware, multiple processors (8 to be precise) and ridiculous amounts of ram (16gb) and storage (8tb). The storage is setup as RAID. So we can use 4TB for the servers and 4TB is a mirror. This way if a [...]

Opvoedpoli

Im Very happy to announce that i have made some time to upgrade one of my favorite sites: www.opvoedpoli.nl to the new CMS and with that upgrade it will also be updated to XHTML 1.1. The javascript will also be getting a new look-at to make it the movements worksmoother and to stop the flickering [...]

Javascript obfuscation

So today to have some fun i decided to rip data from a site that returns a street and city for any postcode. They have this service on the website but that's only intended for retrieving data for 1 address at a time for private use. To use this function commercially you have to get [...]

OnLocation

Started my first day of working on location at TROI studio today. Over the next months i will be developing various applications that will eventually lead to their Studio product v4.

Its quite a large project with the end goal being a full media platform running across several servers in a cluster setup. Load balancing across [...]

Recently completed project

Here are a few recently completed projects that i developed in BE inspired

Site for the Singer Laren about the artist Antom Mauve
www.antonmauve.nl

Site for DISC about alternative energy generation
www.bluemotionenergy.com

Site for Singer Laren about a yearly Jazz festival in the Netherlands
www.larenjazz.nl

Site for a partner of the Film Museum that offeres an archive of Dutch movies
www.filmotech.nl

Ruwer v2.0 - [...]

Admin Apli

Great news: i have pretty much completed my Admin Apli today. Just some minor things remaining. I am very happy with this as it is just in time to use as a framework for 2 big projects i will be starting on this weekend.
1 Final thing to do is finalize the multilingual support, to that [...]

START! update

Have update the START! Apli, http://start.thomassmart.com, to support a mobile device. If the system recognises that you have a mobile device it will forward you to the mobile interface (upon confirm), this forwarding is stored in a cookie so you only need to confirm once. Its a "quick and dirty" fix because apparantly the resolution [...]