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).

We developed the new online shop for beachwear retailer Shiwi, as requested by SisterAct. It uses a custom front-end and the generic back-end we developed for shops like this (which is under on-going development). We used it for LaDress too.

To promote the website, Shiwi has sent a mailing to over 5,000,000 Dutch households.

Credits
Client: SisterAct
End client: Shiwi
We did: Ruby on Rails for front-end & shop back-end

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)

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)

SisterAct asked us to develop the new website for LaDress, the online shop for Simone van Trojen’s excellent line of dresses and accessories. It includes an extensive back-office system to keep track of orders, stock, suppliers, etc and custom front-end.

Credits
Client: SisterAct
End client: LaDress
We did: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Ruby on Rails

#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.