Bart Delrue

Development & Accessibility

"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog."
Roald Dahl - Matilda

About me

Writing this, I realized I'm a pendulum.

Back in the nineties I made my first websites using notepad at our local library. After first pursuing a teaching career, and consequently working in logistics for four years, I decided to return to my old passion for web and app development and enrolled at Howest to study New Media and Communication Technology.

I became a full-stack developer with a high interest in accessibility and a background in education and history.

During my four years with the city of Ghent, I had the opportunity to contribute to diverse projects that made a measurable and positive impact on our citizens. My proudest contributions are those to the city of Ghent Style Guide — forever, my baby — and the platform for the low emission zone initiative.

In 2021, I traded my citizens for college students and started teaching web development at Odisee University of Applied Sciences.

Education

364 ECTS credits

  • Bachelor multimedia and communication technology: NMCT
    180 credits - summa cum laude
    Subject bachelor thesis: web accessibility @ development
  • Multidisciplinary project
    Co-constructing healthy experiences & smart objects, spaces and places
    3 credits
  • Bachelor in secondary education
    168 credits (incomplete)
    Subject bachelor thesis: e-learning
  • Additional classes at UGent history dept.
    13 credits

Timeline

  • 1987 - born

    Ostend, Belgium

  • 2005-’09 bachelor in secondary education

    Artevelde Hogeschool

  • 2008-’09 additional history courses

    UGent

  • 2010-’14 logistic employee

    DSV solutions

  • 2014-’17 full time student

    New Media and Communication Technology, Howest
    graduated summa cum laude

  • 2017-’21 developer at Digipolis Gent

    Accessibility and frontend development in Vue.js and Angular 2+

  • 2021 Lecturer at Odisee Univerity of Applied Sciences

    Full time lecturer in web development.

Showcase

A small selection of personal projects.
Some are rather silly, others have a more nostalgic value, most have been abandoned.

  • Allietabs

    This is the last remnant of my bachelor thesis Accessibility @ development.
    It's a fully accessible tab component which is still being used by the city of Ghent.

    Available on NPM

  • Color contrast checker

    While developing the city of Ghent styleguide, I noticed most color contrast checkers only compare two colors at a time.
    This proved impractical, we have several color schemes with over a hundred variations...
    So I created a contrast checker for entire color palettes.

    Color contrast checker

  • Put some balls in your CSS

    A simple tool to help you play around with background 'balls' in CSS.
    I made it to avoid adjusting my own CSS for the nth-time while working on my internship project mensenmaken.gent

    Put some balls in you CSS

  • Three.js tutorial

    A three.js google cardboard tutorial, created in collaboration with Tijl Bulcaen.

    Three.js google cardboard tutorial

  • Weunt a lief in Wachtebeke?

    Originially a school project and a bit of joke, I presented this site in 2016 during Apps for Ghent.
    I never expected it to gain so much traction!

    It's a very simple websites which uses open data to show you which neighbourhood in Ghent has a surplus of men or women in your age category.
    Hence making it more likely to find a date!

    The site has been used to showcase open data and to promote future hackathons.
    It's one of the reasons I applied for a job at Digipolis Gent.

    Gentse lieven