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It’s not just like any monday

It has been quite a ride… Time to give you all an update! I have been freelancing for almost three and a half years. Half a year ago I was asked to join Fonk, a mobile agency from Amsterdam, as a partner. When I started everything felt pretty good so I decided to pause my [...]

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HTML 5 book

Since I am doing quite a lot of HTML work lately I bought this book from Amazon, and I really like it. If you want to learn about all the new stuff in HTML5 I recommend you read this one!

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Cowboy coding

A few weeks back I read an article about cowboy coding, I want to share it with you because it is amusing and because its quite a good idea. So first of all, what is cowboy coding? “Cowboy coding” is the phrase used to describe the practice of changing code directly on production servers. Babcock [...]

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LiveReload

When I am development mode i constantly do command-tab to the browser, where I press command-R. I stumbled upon a solution for this! I have been using it today and it works pretty well! It even compiles Sass, Coffeescript etc.. For more information see: livereload.com

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AIR 2.6 iPad example on iOS with FDT4

Last friday I worked on getting an Air 2.6 application running on my iPad. Today I want to share with you how to do this. It’s not hard but you have to go through some steps to accomplish this. Please note that to run your AIR application on your iPad you need to have an [...]

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Lessons learned; starting a new project

I would like to share some things I have learned during the last few years while working as a freelance developer. These are some basic steps I use for almost every project… Use a default folder structure Whenever I start a project, I always start by creating a new folder in my projects folder. The [...]

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New project online; Blond Amsterdam

Last week the new website of Blond Amsterdam was officially launched, I build the (Flash) frontend for this nice website. Let me introduce you to the team: Interaction design: Madebypit. Design: Studio Zilt and Zwarte Koffie. Frontend development: me Backend: D-Sign. This took a while to build (~4 weeks) because of all the little details, [...]

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Typewriter

For my latest project for Blond Amsterdam I created this typewriter asset, and I love it! Ps. Thanks to zwartekoffie.com for modifying this typewriter picture so I could use it in Flash!!

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Spirograph

Today I spend some time playing with math, I was looking for a nice spirograph formula, and I found it.

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Todomeister

Today I want to share my latest project that I started about two weeks ago. This idea came to me months ago while working on a freelance job at a studio in Amsterdam. Me and my fellow co-worker created a typical scrumboard for the project we were working on. (below you see the first result when [...]

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Circle packing in Flash

For my current project at EDHV I had to research how to pack circle in groups, this is the result of that experiment. I am satisfied with the result! (thanks to this Wolfram for this explanation) If you want to ‘repack’ the circle click one on the flash player and press ’1′. Ps. this is [...]

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Invisible launching of apps on OSX

I was wondering how this could have happened. After seeing the following screen I got suspicious. When I started to dig into this problem, @cottow pointed me in the right direction. When I opened the Console.app I saw lot’s of errors: Then I found out that there were some applications I removed a long time [...]