ourblog
Welcome on our blog, a place where we write about our projects and our company.
Feel free to comment on everything we write, create or do. Even if you don't like it.
03
Dec
We’re looking for more heroes
We are growing fast so we’re hiring! We are currently looking for an experienced, enthusiastic PHP developer to work on our bigger projects, mainly building web applications and advising our customers on technical solutions. He or she will be the technical lead for projects from concept over development to deployment.
View the job description on our jobs mini-site or on JobChoy
12
May
The rising Sun startup rally
We have been so busy fixing bugs and answering support questions after the new My Name is E release that we didn’t have time to blog about it.
The new version, code-named Adam Link, launched a month ago at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam. The response on Twitter, Get Satisfaction and in real life was huge. On top of that we won The Rising Sun Startup Rally a day after the launch! While the guys from Postmachina were receiving the price we were monitoring the service and fixing bugs and problems as good as we could. We’re excited about the progress we’ve made since the first version and hope you are too.
25
Mar
We’re expanding
Last weekend we moved to Antwerp, one of the biggest cities in Belgium. Our new offices are located in the heart of the city on the main shopping street. At this new location we have space to accomodate our own employees, freelancers and interns. We are trying to create an inspiring environment to welcome colleagues and clients, feel free to send us your ideas and suggestions (Check out the pictures at the end of this post).
With all this new space we had to find extra people to fill things up a bit.
Awsome dutch webdesigner Jonno Riekwel, who made our current website, joined the madewithlove team on the 16th of march. He will be designing, slicing and coding stunning web interfaces. Welcome Jonno, we are pleased to have you on board!
But that’s not all.
A couple of months ago we received an email from our partners in Amsterdam about a webdeveloper from Paris looking for a job in Belgium. We immediatly got in touch and now, some phonecalls, emails, interviews and a lot of red tape later, we are thrilled to announce that Wahiba Khadri is joining the madewithlove team on the 1st of April. So that makes 4 and new offices nicely filled up!
Meanwhile we did some client jobs, worked on Pongo and Bakso (our new framework and CMS) but most off all we readying the new version of mynameise.com for launch in mid april.
We are thrilled with all these new developments. Stay tuned for more announcements in the next few weeks. Huge thanks to everyone who helped us make this possible!
17
Dec
Playtime is over
De speeltijd is voorbij (in Dutch) or Playtime is over is the title of the book about the Y-generation’s vision on work. Andreas was interviewed for this book back in July and it is hitting the stores by today. The 86 page read is written by Jan Glorieux in a light and pleasant style.
Our company name is mentioned multiple times in the book, the author kind of liked it I guess.
"work with love! Work because you love doing it, not only because you have to."
"A young entrepreneur translated his vision into his company name: Made with love."
29
Sep
Hello, my name is E
As some of you might have noticed, we launched E.
E is a service that integrates all your existing social services into an E•ID, which you can share with anyone in the real world. To exchange E•ID’s, you just need an internet-enabled mobile phone like an iPhone or Blackberry. When you exchange your E•ID’s, E makes sure your contacts get added to your other social services like Netlog, Twitter, Last.fm, Soocial, automatically.
We had some problems during the first days, but since two days our error reporting system is quiet. Our mailboxes got overwhelmed with feedback and great responses on the product. Thanks everyone!
E is still in beta and very basic, we have a lot of things in mind which will be added in the future.
E is a joint effort of Postmachina and madewithlove.
We had a lot of fun building it and we had a great time with the Postmachina guys.
The E team
25
Aug
The jQuery emptyonclick Plugin
Update: We created a mini-site and a plugin page on the official jQuery website for the plugin.
A lot of websites have a login form without labels, they let the value of the field indicate what you need to fill in there. It’s very clean and a neat solution if you have limited space for your form.
This is what it looks like:
But if you are not in a lack of pixels you should absolutely don’t use this technique! In that case you must use a regular form with fields and labels like this one:
When a user wants to change the value of field from the first example, he will first need to clear the field. Some people do this by selecting all the text and start writing, but I can imagine people pressing the backspace till the field is empty.
Our solution
To fix that problem, I wrote a jQuery plugin. You just need to include the plugin and define which field should empty onclick.
18
Aug
Our first blog post
Hi there! As you can see we have a blog now.
What about us? We had a little reorganisation going on in the company. Everything runs fine now, we have the team back together and we are working on some cool really exciting projects.
We spend a lot of our days with Postmachina, wich are the guys behind E. We are building the E website and the E service for them. We are currently testing a release candidate and hope to launch a private bèta soon.
Beside that we are working on a new php framework called Pongo, wich will be used for every website we will build from now on. We even use Pongo to build a new cms, this new cms is going to replace our flashcms in the near future.
Last but not least, I would like to thank Jonno for building this blog.