Last weekend I went to WordCamp Europe in Leiden. It was my first WordCamp and I have to say; it was very awesome. Can’t believe I’ve never been to an event like this before and I should really start doing it more in the future.

I’ll fill you in on the experience, the speakers and give you my two cents of what I thought about the talks.

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people how to begin using Sass and Compass. Even though it’s pretty easy, a little push in the right direction is all you need to quickly start utilising Sass and Compass in your next project.

I’ll give you installing instructions, a bit of information on what happens and a sample project setup I use myself to get you started quickly.

Yesterday, friday the 13th, I went to Yoast for a day of coding, sharing knowledge and good old fun. It’s great to see that a company like Yoast can thrive when it’s most know for its WordPress plugin.

Let me tell you the impressions I got from Yoast, its people and a non standard environment.

In the time I spend working in web development I had the chance to work on some great looking designs which were fun to work with most of the time. There is however a problem with many designs I see lately and that’s that they miss the fundamentals.

Maybe it’s weird to hear a design lecture from a developer, but I really think it’s good to see things from a different direction. I’ll give you my view on designs and how they lack some important things a lot of the time.

Getting stuck in the same cycle at work can be fatal for your creativity and motivation to go on. If you’re doing the same trick over and over again, project after project, you will find yourself out of energy pretty soon. I’ll try to explain what might be going wrong and what to do about it in this article.