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Hi. This is another of those personal web pages. Being a web developer, I sure have loads of web space floating around the net, so I tried to put some of that to good use.
Not by maintaining a blog - I don't feel like it, yet - but by having a simple page where I can refer people to.

It's also a good place for me to bring some things together, although most of the stuff related to my "web-presence" is on another site, in French.
Here I try to develop the more career-related stuff, although the net being a place where I spend much of my work and free time, the two interweave more than often.

who are you?

Pieterjan Montens, web application developer, living in (and coming from) Belgium.

I'm currently employed at the Belgian Supreme Administrative Court (or Council of State), where I actively develop external and internal web applications (I actually have a law degree).

You can say my main domain of competence lies in PHP, Javascript and thus Ajax, Web 2.0,(x)Html, Css, to name just a few.

I started by developing some web-based tools (mainly related to my law studies, for me and my fellow students), a search engine (a real one), and some more.

A more extensive list of competences and experiences can be found in my CV, viewable here (in French).

show me stuff!

Well, just a small list with the main applications I've done then:

juriDict: The main online application I've been working on.; It's one of the three databases that the Council of State opened to the public.; I did virtually everything on it, except the data itself of course.; It's entirely dynamic (read Ajax-driven), and even has some Google Gears functionality.
Rvs website: Based on a CMS the Council bought.; I merely do some webmastering on it, and adapt it further to our needs.; An interesting part was the DtSearch - VbScript integration.
notitia: The main application I developed during my studies.; It's purpose is quite limited: make pages from a certain source look good.; That source had to be the Supreme Belgian Court (Court of Cassation). Their old search engine returned awfully formatted text.; Interesting was the extensive use of regular expressions, and the packets that had to be made for the huge textarea to upload correctly (textareas aren't made to contain the civil code).
This site: Yes, no fancy CMS. Why use a cms when you read html like if it is some kind of matrix ?; Simply hand-coded html, css, php and javascript.; Nothing interesting, except the twitter API and the fact I made it while commuting.
And everything else: For each finished project, about 3 others remain unfinished. A pity.; Plenty of stuff I learned with: a collaborative online windowed text editor, a bus timetable/google maps mashup, etc.