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André van Toly, d+g design

Ik ontwerp websites en ontwikkel Java web applicaties. Mijn sites zijn gebruiksvriendelijk en voldoen aan de standaarden van de W3C. Ik streef ernaar voor iedereen toegankelijke websites en applicaties te bouwen waarbij zowel de 'voorkant' voor de bezoekers als de 'achterkant' voor de redactie helder en duidelijk is.

OIPlayer example with Ajax

A few weeks ago I wanted a way to place a HTML5 video in a page without Safari immediately downloading it. I came up with a sort of lightbox solution, loading video in a page with ajax. Read more »» do 1 sep 2011 / door André / 2 comments

Redesign Van Gogh Museum website

Van Gogh Museum homepage

The Van Gogh Museum introduced a new design and we had the privilege to apply it to their website. Besides a new logo, a new font and an overal new look, they decided to recreate the homepage of www.vangoghmuseum.nl without the use of Flash with just html, css and Javascript. The homepage contains a jQuery carousel that can be filled with images and text. Read more »» vr 3 jun 2011 / door André / 2 comments

New international website NVNOM.com

N.V. NOM

Recently NOM released their completely renewed site for international visitors www.nvnom.com. NOM is a development or investment agency for our three northern provinces. The site is completely renewed version of their former international site www.nvnom.eu. Read more »» do 7 apr 2011 / door André / 0 comments

Open Images v1.1

A few days ago I build a new a new version of the open source software the website runs on, with quite a lot of new features. Read more »» di 29 mrt 2011 / door André / 0 comments

Streams for mobile devices on Open Images

We've retranscoded our streams and added new transport stream (ts) segments with playlists (m3u8) to support playing on cellular networks (f.e. 3G).

video: eye film instituut nederland licensed as Public Domain Read more »» wo 15 sep 2010 / door André / 0 comments

OIPlayer: HTML5 media player with fallback

One of the main goals of Open Images was to be as open as possible inluding using the HTML5 video and audio tags to play uploaded video and audio, with a fallback mechanism for less modern browsers. The jQuery plugin OIPlayer is a result of that effort. Read more »» za 10 apr 2010 / door André / 2 comments

Download Open Images

Download it to use it for yourself. Develop and improve OIP or manage your own media. I just finished creating a download package and publishing an article about it at the Open Images website. The platform is published under GPL. Visit the download page or download it straight from here by following the second link.
Read more »» wo 17 feb 2010 / door André / 0 comments

Configuring mod_jk on Snow Leopard

A few months ago I wrote about building mod_jk for Mac Leopard. I was glad to learn last weekend that my notes were still correct while I build a recent version of mod_jk for Mac Snow Leopard. This post is about how I configured mod_jk to make the Apache webserver and Tomcat work together. Read more »» ma 25 jan 2010 / door André / 2 comments

Sheets of my presentation at the MMEvent

A PDF dump of my Keynote presentation at the yearly MMBase event today. Read more »» di 15 dec 2009 / door André / 0 comments

Open Images is live!

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland yesterday released the Open Images (or Open Beelden) website: www.openimages.eu or www.openbeelden.nl Read more »» vr 25 sep 2009 / door André / 0 comments

Overheid.nl en NOM.nl

De afgelopen twee maanden zijn twee sites waaraan ik veel heb bijgedragen 'live gezet': www.overheid.nl en www.nom.nl. Read more »» ma 10 aug 2009 / door André / 0 comments

Cron jobs

tip #21 / 14 Oct 2011 / 0 comments

MMBase has a simple but effective application for cron jobs named MMBase Crontab. Cron jobs can be scheduled via a configuration file, or just by creating cronjob nodes.

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Recent

Recent werk en projecten.

Van Gogh Museum
Website van het Van Gogh Museum
Open Beelden / Open Images
Multilingual media platform offering video, audio and images while transcoding them in several formats
N.V. NOM
Inversterings- en ontwikkelingsmaatschappij voor Noord-Nederland
OIPlayer media player
Easy to ingrate jQuery plugin for html5 video and audio tags with fallback to Flash and Java.

Links

Leuke of interessante websites.

Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut web, about a great writer
HTML5 video player comparison
Chart with video players
Storify Open Images
Storify experiment and compilation of stuff Open Images.

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