Teaching

I am a full time teacher at EPI (a school on Aruba) where I teach young people to work with computers, and also to program computers.

I am now a partner at Gameskool.org where I create and sell programming courses. You can order programming courses in Dutch and English. Order your programming course now.

Programming

This is an overview of my work on websites. A lot of this work has been done while I was employed as a web developer at CaribMedia, from 2004-2009. However, these sites do represent my work as part of a team. Personal sites and Blue Koala Projects are completely and 100% my own work, including all design and programming.

Personal

• vanderblonk.com – design, styling, content, programming (tools)
• yasmara.com – My lovely wife’s website where she sells her music

My personal site was redesigned in 2009 using WordPress. I wrote my own plugin for showing animated Rubik’s cubes.

Past projects of Blue Koala

• fedeveta.com – design, styling. Also includes programming a back end for competition administration (including games, players, goals, etc). Technical: using Laravel as a framework, and WordPress as a front-end.
• deschrijfcoacharuba.com – design, styling, content
• couponsmatter.com – programming an interface to coupon sites like LinkShare and CJ. All modules synchronize invisibly with the coupon sites. Technical: PHP, MySQL, SOAP and REST
• some fun, now defunct, sites like shadykitties (pictures of cats with glasses) and luckylovebutton (a button that matches you with a random dating profile).

While employed

Please note that all of the websites below have been created as team work while working at a web development company. I am not a designer, so the designs are work of other people. In some cases all programming was done by me, in some other cases other developers cooperated with me.

Also most websites were created in the periode 2005-2009, which means most of those sites are either outdated or have been redesigned later. Please take this list as a reference to the work I have done.

Tourism

• VisitAruba.com – XHTML, JavaScript, JSP. A 2009 revamp contains a lot of JavaScript by me. I also created the e-commerce part for ordering the VisitAruba Plus card.
• Aruba Restaurants – WordPress, JSP, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript. Features: reservation system.
• Tranquilo Aruba -WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript
• Renaissance Marina – XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript.Features: a style switcher.

Public Sector / Financial

• Central Bank of Aruba – CSS, JSP
• IMC Trust – WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript
• WTS Aruba – WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript

Accommodations

• Del Rey Apartments – XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP

Food and Beverage

• El Gaucho Restaurant – CSS, PHP
• Eetcafe The Paddock Restaurant – CSS, JSP, JavaScript, ActionScript
• Matthew’s Beachside Restaurant – CSS, XHTML, PHP
• Ling & Sons, Inc. – CSS, JSP, AjaxFeatures: shopping cart system

Automotive

• Garage Cordia Aruba (Official Toyota and Lexus Dealer) – CSS, JSP
• TRAC (Toyota Rent a Car) – CSS, XHTML
• Economy Car Rental – CSS, JSP
• Econo Car Rental – CSS, JSP, JavaScript

Real Estate

• Aruba Real Estate – CSS, JSP, JavaScript

E-Commerce

• Ling & Sons Inc – CSS, JSP, JavaScript (AJAX)
• El Gaucho Restaurant – CSS, PHP, backend, security, e-commerce
  Features: electronic gift certificates
• VisitAruba Plus – CSS, PHP, XHTML

Legal & Business Consultancies

• Carlo Law Offices – PHP, JavaScript, Anti-spam

Retail & Wholesale

• Visser Trading – CSS, JSP, JavaScript
• Kok Optica – CSS, XHTML, Flash, JavaScript

Non-profit organizations / Foundations / Museums / Other

• Clown Doctors of Aruba – CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript
• Museo Archeologico – CSS, XHTML, PHP (local application)
• ArubaVets – CSS, XHTML , PHP, JavaScript
• Foundation Autism Aruba – WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript
• Fundacion Alzheimer Aruba –  WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript