Hello world!

So finally I see myself attempting to start up this blog that hopefully will be filled with many interesting articles that are mainly based on my experiences with ExtJS, CakePHP and all kinds of related technologies.

First of, let me tell a little bit about myself. My name is Edwin Platteel, I`m 26 years of age, and currently living in a small village near Leiden, in The Netherlands.
I`m a fulltime webdeveloper for a company that specialises in optimising Harbour Logistics and developing services for all contractors in the Rotterdam and Amsterdam Harbour.

I share my home with my lovely girlfriend Jantine and my 3 pet goldfish, love to play soccer in my spare time, read books or developing some new projects based upon idea`s I`ve had for a long time.

I started this blog to share my experience with some frameworks that have gotten my attention lately, naming ExtJS and CakePHP. I`ve found the combination of these two to be a killer-combo in terms of rapid application development and extensive usability features.  I`ve always had a passion for Usability Design in the Web Environment, and thats the main reason I`ve been so fond of frameworks like ExtJS, that enables the developer to build an userfriendly app in a generic way, without too much hassle.

For now this will be the first of many articles to come,  so expect some nice things like how-to`s, tutorials and examples showing up here, all Web 2.0+ related or interesting enough to be mentioned by me.