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1993
His first (shared family) PC.
Yes, this is CV material, even though the dial-up modem came years later.
#floppies
#MS-DOS
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1998
Berend started playing around on Geocities and made his first (black background) web page in 1998 (estimated). A few years later he started taking web design jobs.
#irc
#ftp
#<B></B>
#gif
#urotsukidoji-fanpage
#frames
#notepad
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2000
Berend studied Multimedia design at Grafisch Lyceum in Rotterdam from 2000 to 2004 while casually continuing freelancing. Jobs consisted of simple but entire websites, from start to finish, from design to building to custom CMS systems to setting up hosting.
With every project (until this day) he likes to try at least one new technique.
#flash
#ie6
#ie-hacks
#custom-cms
#php
#mysql
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2005
Berend founded and registered Frique as an official one-man business.
#frique.nl
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2010
In 2010 Berend discovers the CodeCanyon marketplace and builds his first premium jQuery plugin: Boutique. Later that year a timed slideshow plugin Timeliner is released.
Frique.me was launched as an international hub of Frique work and blog.
#html5
#css3
#jquery
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2011
Berend is designer and front-end / user experience developer at Watertalent B.V., working on the Watertalent and Luchttalent job vacancy websites.
The jQuery plugin Etalage was published on CodeCanyon in March, 2011.
#progressive-enhancement
#ux
#svn
#sublimetext
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2015
Still casually designing, but shifted towards front-end development, UX and performance optimization. In terms of back-end code, Berend prefers to only deal with WordPress.
Berend released the WordPress admin UI theme Clientside in April, 2015.
#perfmatters
#ux
#grunt
#60fps
#osx
#wp
#svg
#git
#opensource
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present
Helping Onsweb.nl with WordPress and frontend development for their many clients – big & small.
Occasionally contributing or sharing a side-project on github.
Started developing WooCommerce plugins for sale at https://frique.me/products/
#atom
#vagrant
#opensource
#woocommerce