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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.

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!

This is our new style

Roy Tomeij — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:55:51 +0000

After over four years our old logo got kind of… old. We didn’t like it anymore. It didn’t reflect how we feel about our company nowadays. We grew tired of the orange too.

Since we needed new stationary with our new address on it anyway, we decided to do a redesign. The result is the logo in your upper left corner, designed by Tara Karpinski.

Closed for the holidays

Roy Tomeij — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:57:39 +0000

80beans will be closed for the holidays from 22 December to 2 January. For urgent matters, please send an e-mail or leave a message on the answering machine.

Happy holidays!

The move is over!

Roy Tomeij — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:45 +0000

FINALLY! We have moved our office to the Vijzelstraat (even more in the city center than our previous office), which took way more time and trouble than we expected. The major bottleneck for us not being easy to get a hold of was KPN (Dutch phone provider), who messed up moving our line. I truly wonder wether the guys & girls at KPN ever perform such a move without massive problems (as in, playing the “the number you are trying to reach does not exist”-tape whenever you tried calling us).

We’re still busy with the finishing touch (setting up a wired network, waiting for our new fridge to arrive, ordering a meeting table, etc), but it’s workable now. Our phone is up again and so is our internet connection. Somewhere in the next month we’ll be switching to VOIP (voice over IP) for our phone line, lets hope the number portation goes smooth.

One of the best things, as expressed by our visitors: the new coffee machine! No more Senseo, but freshly grinded coffee beans to serve regular coffee, cappuchino, etc. Drop in if you want to give it a try.

Silence…

Roy Tomeij — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:39:13 +0000

Ouch… it’s been quite a while since we posted some new items on our website. Not because we have no news (the contrary is true), but mainly because we’re very busy working on our own products, stuff for our clients and planning the move to our new office (we will be moving to the Vijzelstraat (still in the center of Amsterdam) somewhere in June). Besides that we’re also working on a new logo, which takes up some of our precious time too.

We promise to post some more once the move is over and the site has had a redesign!