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I finished working on a new partially flash website for EBBA (European Border Breakers Awards).
The site is nice combination between flash and HTML.

I must say it was really fun to do and I hope I get more opportunities to work on projects like this one!

Check out the result at : EBBA

(Only “Home” and “The winners” are flash)

The website Watwiljijmetwiet.nl (Dutch) from Tactus Verslavingszorg has won the Preffi-prijs 2009. theFactor.e has developed this website and I was one of the lead Flex developers.

Watwiljijmetwiet.nl is a site for prevention and decreasing of problematic cannabis usage. The site is mainly targeting people between 16 and 25 years of age. Watwiljijmetwiet.nl offers information, tips, but mainly a selftest and selfhelpprogram. Last year there where about 220.000 people using cannabis in the Netherlands.

The Preffi-prijs 2009 is an initiative of NIGZ and is handed out to the most promising project in the area of healthcare and illnessprevention.

Last Wednesday our Senior Rich Internet Consultant aka Joost Nuijten has presented the Tactive platform (see my previous post) at the Adobe Usergroup Netherlands.
You can watch it here : Tactive presentation (Dutch)

Last year at TFE we (Gerben and I) have been working on a project called Tactive. It’s an online platform for treatment of addictions. This platform is a replacement for the already existing treatment for an alcohol addiction. It seems to be easier for people to sign up for a treatment online rather than meeting an expert face to face.

The platform is build generic and can be extended for other addictions but the first release is for an alcohol addiction. The platform consists of seven Flex applications, from these applications the client uses three. The other applications are used by counselors and administrators.

The Clientapplication

Via this application the client communicates with the counselor. The counselor can send assignments which help the client to complete the treatment. From this application the diary and help can be openend.

The Diary

During the treatment a client can fill in his alcohol consumption. Also the counselor can monitor the drinking habit and set a drinking target for the clients.

Via the moment description panel a client can describe what he was feeling and why they wanted to drink.

The other applications which are used by administrators and counselors are used for administration and maintainability.

Tips

Define your stylesheets beforehand! Doing this after a couple of months without any good structure in the beginning isn’t the best thing to do.

We learned a lot about security. Medical information has the highest privacy rating so it needs to be kept as save as possible.

We used subversion and cruisecontrol on a remote server to develop and deploy our project with ease.

Potential clients can sign up via a website called alcoholdebaas.nl (alcohol treatment [dutch]) .

Today is the day I released my FIRST FLASH GAME EVER! Normally I create RIAs and this is something way different but it is interesting and especially fun to do.
First of all I know that there are more games like this one, but I like it very much and that’s why I chose this one to make.
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