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Moving to a new office

Roy Tomeij — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:02:01 +0000

Next Friday, April 16th, we will be moving to a new office. This means internet connections and phone lines need to be transferred, which is why we will work from home and will only be available by phone for very urgent matters. On Monday everything will be up and running again at the new location.

Closed for the holidays

Roy Tomeij — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:00:38 +0000

80beans will be closed for the holidays from the 24th of December until the 4th of January. In case of emergency, send an e-mail to info@80beans.com or leave a message at +31 (0)20 4284106 (those will end up in our e-mail too).

Two new Rails programmers

Roy Tomeij — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:25:32 +0000

We searched and found two excellent Rails programmers (Robert & Jeff) to join our team. Although we’re always open to meeting interesting people, we’re no longer actively searching for new talent.

Dear recruitment companies, you may stop calling us to offer your services (which are undoubtly worth 25% of an annual salary…). No, seriously. Stop.

Amsterdam.rb BarCamp

Roy Tomeij — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:55:30 +0000

Next Tuesday, June 30, it’s time for Kings of Code again. Of course we will be attending, since there will be great speakers.

The Monday before, June 29, there are a bunch of side-events. We will be attending the Amsterdam.rb Ruby BarCamp, taking place at Escape (Rembrandtplein) from 12.30pm to 6pm. There’s no admission, also if you’re not attending the conference, but you do need to register.

Since we know listening to all this cool Ruby chatter will make your thirsty, we’re the official Amsterdam.rb BarCamp drinks sponsor. The venue is sponsored by
Rock & Code & Wes Oldenbeuving (thanks guys).

The Next Web conference

Roy Tomeij — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:27 +0000

We will attend The Next Web conference on Thursday 16 & Friday 17 April. We will be available by phone, but because of the limited amount of people at the office we do request you only to call for urgent matters.

Our start-up ConfNetwork is once again responsible for the The Next Web Conference Network.

NUik.nl

Roy Tomeij — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:10:49 +0000

NUik.nl just launched, the latest addition to the family of NU.nl websites. It’s an iGoogle-like application which displays content from the NU.nl network and some external content (more in the future). Users can create new pages and add widgets to them, which are often highly customizable. Widgets also work on iGoogle (click the “settings” icon to find out the URL for the gadget, as Google calls it)!

Widgets are built by several parties. We made the TV guide, NUjij and RSS widgets and gave extensive support to the other developing parties.

Credits
Client: ilse media
End client: NU.nl
We did: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP (the widgets are rendered by Shindig)

DNews Fernsehen

Roy Tomeij — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:34:02 +0000

Unfortunately we didn’t have the time to transform the Dutch TV-guide we built for NU.nl to a German version, but NU.nl did an excellent job themselves. The result is “DNews Fernsehen“, which uses “our” front-end (and probably back-end to a large extent too).
Joris & the rest of the team, good luck with the German website!

On the Loose

Roy Tomeij — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:56:49 +0000

For Creative Monkeys we did the technical development for On the Loose, a site to accompany a series of programs about the worlds #1 kite boarders. Since it’s a blog, we decided to use Wordpress and built a custom theme.

Credits
Client: Creative Monkeys
We did: Wordpress theme (HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP)

Familie.nl

Roy Tomeij — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:19:28 +0000

For ilse media we did the development of a totally new version of Familie.nl, a website to connect with your family. Share calendar events, photo’s and video’s and stories. Build and share your family tree and put events on your map and timeline.

In the near future, a lot of new features will be added.

Credits
Client: ilse media
End client: Familie.nl (Schoolbank B.V.)
We did: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP (the family tree component was not built by us)

Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets

Roy Tomeij — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:12:16 +0000

Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets, or simply “Sass” is a great way of structuring your CSS using Ruby syntax. It spices up writing your CSS in several ways (use constants, do calculations, etc), with the most notable feature being the ability to use nested rules. This turns this:

#main
  :width 97%

  p, div
    :font-size 2em
    a
      :font-weight bold

  pre
    :font-size 3em

into

#main {
  width: 97%; }
  #main p, #main div {
    font-size: 2em; }
    #main p a, #main div a {
      font-weight: bold; }
  #main pre {
    font-size: 3em; }

Just save your Sass file as public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass (filename may vary), and Sass will generate a public/stylesheets/application.css. This file will be re-generated after making changes to your *.sass file. Don’t forget to set an ignore property on your *.css files, since you don’t want to have those under version control.

We decided to use it for all our new projects, which has boosted our CSS productivity. Because of the structured syntax, also the not-so-CSS-savvy programmers can easily find what they are looking for in the CSS file. Highly recommended! See the above mentioned website for detailed installation and usage instructions.

Tip: to convert your plain old CSS to Sass, use the “css2sass” command line tool (included with haml): css2sass oldfile.css newfile.sass.