Thanks for visiting my web log and digital playground/sandbox.

I'm a web developer living in brussels, Belgium and this is the place where I share various things about the web, open source, creativity, music, photography and many other topics ...

The jquery mobile version of my blog is here. Normally, if you try to access the blog with a mobile devices, you should be automatically redirected to the mobile version.

If you want more details about my freelance activities that I'm going to start very soon, check e-volution.be.

dev.e-volution.be gives access to my open source package incubator on my macbook pro at home.

I'm very curious and enjoy to play with various PHP frameworks, CMS, new technologies and web programming languges.

Contact

Here and there

• Google plus
• Geekli.st
• Github
• About.me
• Picplz
• memolane
• flavors.me
• drupal
• facebook
• twitter
• tumblr
• netlog
• MyBlogLog
• flickr
• myspace
• lastfm
• digg
• youtube
• vimeo
• form spring
• jeff wantz it

more about me

Talking about myself is really difficult, I don't know where to begin, so I try with "100 things about me" method:

1. My name is Jean-François
2. My surname is Lefebvre
3. My nicknames are Jeff, thexplorer (thexplorer comes from "X-Plorer" wich is the name of the Eric Serra's recording studio, I'm a big fan of his music.)
4. I was born in Namur, Belgium, on March 26th, 1975 at 4:45 p.m.
5. I'm an Aries in tropical astrology but Pisces in sideral astrology (wich I think is close to the reality). I'm a cat in Chinese astrology.
6. I'm voting Green not because I'm an idealistic person but because I really care about our future and the quality of life on this planet. Every day, I try to do small little things to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment
7. I moved in 2006 in Brussels (Belgium) but I lived almost all my life in Namur. If you are coming in Belgium, you should visit the Namur citadel.
8. I've studied software engineering at the Haute Ecole Rennequin Sualem in Liege
9. I'm a web developer
10. Drupal is my favorite CMS.
11. I'm interested in web design, web standards and try to improve my skills in topics such as ergonomy, usability. Somtimes I really think that the web sucks by some aspects but it's a mirror of the life. But life is great 99% of the time.
12. My blogger code: B8 d t+ k s u-- f- i- o x e l c (decode it!)
13. I'm a media addict especially television : tv series, documentaries, cultural programs and music channels like MTV, VH1, MCM
14. My favorite series are House, the mentalist, Dexter, Entourage, How I met your mother, Gray's anatomy, Nip tuck, V.
15. Here is my DVD list
16. I'm using an ipodtouch as mp3 player and my phone is an htc desire (android 2.1)
17. I've been on the internet since 1996
18. My favorite drinks are coke light, red bull light and water
19. I drink only socially
20. I like digital arts : web design, video editing with my Flip and photography (Canon eos300d) Take a look at my flickr account.
21. I really love to swim and play badminton.
22. My car was a Ford focus but since I broke the motor, I'm using the public transportation in Brussles.
23. My first browser was Netscape Navigator. A great documentary about netscape before he's been bought by AOL : code rush.
24. My first email address was lefebvre.jf@usa.net
25. I received my first computer (sinclair zx81) and wrote my first program in basic when I was 7 years old and never stopped since that day.
26. I owned the following computers : Sinclair ZX81, Amstrad CPC6128, Commodore Amiga 500 (amazing machine), 486DX@33/PIII@333/P4@2.4/Sonoma@2Ghz and recently switched to apple world with a Macbook pro i5 2,4Gghz
27. Over the years, I've developed software using various languages from assembler 80x86 to C, C++, C#, VB.NET, java and for the last few years PHP.
28. Android SDK is an amazing development platform and I can't wait to see tablets based on this technology
29. The countries I've visited are Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Greece, Turkey and Canada
30. My favorite foods are asian, italian and greek.
31. I like to experiment new things in my little kitchen.
32. I'm listening to a lot of different kind of music, but what I like the most is soundtracks, pop/rock music.
33. I play piano and guitar for fun during my spare time. My home studio is based on a macbook pro/logic/virtual instruments controlled with a MIDI controller (Novation 49SL MKII).
34. I like to travel and have a passion for Crete island and Canada
35. I've switched from pc to mac and I have to admit that it's a new world opening to me. But it's still a piece of hardware ...
36. Next project : big apple and also going back to Canada to discover new amazing places. My dream would be to immigrate to Candada and experience the life there.