Hi there! My name is Paul Engel, I'm Dutch and I have been working at Internetbureau Holder B.V. since February 2004.
At first, we were a Borland Delphi Pascal oriented company in which we developed CRM software on an abstract level. Our goal was to be able to create any kind of CRM from scratch. I have developed a framework and IDE plugin to do just that. You can get a demo here for old times' sake.
As of 2005, Holder has changed its orientation completely. We became a Mac-only (goodbye Windows!) company and we started working with Ruby on Rails. I have been designing websites with Fireworks and developing websites with TextMate ever since.
During the years, I have improved my skills on web design and development. As a programmer, I love the flexibility of the Ruby and Javascript language. Using Ruby on Rails and jQuery on top of them completes the picture.
My first open source project is TopUp. I have put a lot of time and energy in making TopUp as good as possible. Elegance (providing fancy transitions and an Apple Dashboard, Quicklook and Flatlook layout), simplicity (for the web developer using TopUp: the easiest setup is a one liner) and unobtrusiveness (keeping the HTML code 100% clean) were my main goals.
I always aim on writing clean and reusable code. Like many Rails developers and Git users, I have created several Rails gems / plugins and jQuery libraries which I published on my Github page. But unlike TopUp, I am not planning on dedicating a website for each of them :P
Enter CodeHero.es! My own space on the web in which I share my bits of code with fellow programmers. I hope they can be of great help to you all!
Kind regards,
Paul Engel.