Liam Martens

Hi, I'm Liam. I am a developer Uhm no, I'm a designer. Wait, can I be both? Well, I've been trying to be ever since I was 12yrs old. Since then I have learnt several programming languages and I have also been busy experimenting with design in either Photoshop or Illustrator. Anyways, take a look around and hit me up with a message if you have something to tell me.

KEEP CALM AND SCROLL ALONG

This section is about me.

YOUR VERY OWN POKÉMON STOCKPHOTO LEGEND IS ABOUT TO UNFOLD! MY WORLD AWAITS YOU!

10/10 for the Pokémon reference?

VIETNAM

I was born in Viëtnam on 22 December 1997. I was adopted a couple of months after and my new parents flew me to Belgium, where I am still living to this day.

GUITAR & MUSIC

I've been playing the guitar for a couple of years now and I enjoy it whenever I find the time to do so. If you want you can listen to my stuff on SoundCloud. Besides playing the guitar I love to listen to music as well, especially when I'm working.

SCIENCE & TECH

I kind of love everything science and tech. I follow the news to keep up to date on what's new and I also try to learn about sciency stuff when I can.

DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

My life took a digital turn at the age of 12 and I never went back on that decision. Development has been a passion of mine ever since, whereas my "design drive" came a bit after I made some horrendous stuff.

COLLEGE

I'm currently in college studying DEVINE (design and development) at Howest. I've only started recently, but so far it seems interesting.

GAMES

Whenever I'm not working I also like to play games from time to time. At the moment I'm into "No Man's Sky" the most.

COFFEE

Just like every other developer or designer out there I love to drink coffee.

THIS IS ME

This section is about my past work and projects.

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH MY LIFE! YOU THINK I HAVE SUCCEEDED SO FAR?

WWWEB

ANDROID

GRAPHIC

FEW PEOPLE HAVE LUMIA
BUT I JUST LOVE MINE

In this section you will find my skills.

LEARNING NEW STUFF ALL THE TIME... IT'S A MUST IN THE IT SECTOR.

1997

2011 // Visual Basic

_might still be able?_

2012 // HTML

_excellent skill_

2012 // CSS

_excellent skill_

2012 // C#

_good skill_

2012 // Illustrator

_good skill_

2012 // Photoshop

_good skill_

2013 // JavaScript

_good skill_

2013 // PHP

_good skill_

2015 // Linux Server

_manage my own_

2015 // SASS

_good skill_

2015 // Python

_OK, still learning_

2015 // C++

_basic, still learning_

2016 // Ruby

_OK, still learning_

2016 // Rust

_docs knowledge_

2016 // Node.js

_I'm okay_

2016 // Vala

_I can do this_

2016 // Docker

_Dockerfile, I know you_

2017

RELATABLE DEVRANTThat awkward moment when you email a quote to your new client and he responds with "Why so expensive? Wix is so cheap"

*Kill me*

Want to contact me? Here you'll find all the information you need

FOLLOW ME OR SEND ME A MESSAGE. I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP.

WWWEB

QuickChat

Late 2013 I started working on QuickChat, in my opinion the biggest project I have made to date. Back then I was learning about MVC and I used QuickChat to make myself familiar with it. I worked on QuickChat for a couple of months and in August 2014 I received an Honorable Mention from the Awwwards. Later that year, I decided to sell the code though you can still check the project out on this demo site

The Screeners

I have always liked watching movies and when a friend of mine asked me whether I wanted to review movies with him I obviously said yes. The Screeners is the result of this and we have been reviewing film since early 2016. Our end goal would be becoming official Rotten Tomato critics though we are certainly not there yet as the requirements include to have reviewed no less than 100 movies.

xTend

xTend is my very own PHP MVC framework. It is not focused on providing all features you can think of, like Laravel does, but I put the focus on ease of use, speed, extendability and customizability. At the moment the latest xTend release is version 2.0.0 and the framework has been in development since 12 Dec 2014. Check out the website or go straight to the repository

rndPost

rndPost is a small project I created during a live stream on Twitch The idea for rndPost came from a friend of mine and I was able to both design and develop the whole website in a little under 5 hours. You can use the web app or you can even use the android app

Grensloos VZW

Grensloos is a Belgian non-profit for whom I created a website. While it might not be the best website ever, do keep in mind I did it all for free. If you want to check it out follow the link

Quick Service

Quick Service is a website I made during an internship at High School. The site is for a very small Belgian company who shares the same name. If you would like to take a look at the website you can go to quick-service.be

DROID

rndPost

As you may have read in the wwweb section of my past projects, rndPost is a small website I made during a livestream. After launching the web app online I decided to create an Android application as well, even though I hadn't experimented with Android development too much. After a week or so I was able to publish the app to the Play Store where you can now download rndPost on your phone.

GRPHC

Ragequit.cc

A friend once asked me to create a new logo for his Ragequit community. He gave me an example logo, which was a simplistic fox drawing type of deal, and he told me he wanted the logo to show rage and yet be minimalistic. So I took his "challenge" and what I came up with is a minimalistic tiger.

NickNackGaming

A small YouTuber I follow asked in one of his video's if someone coud make a new logo for him and I immediatly said I was up for it. I contacted him and we went over what he was looking for, nothing specific really, so I came up with a letter mark which resembles a double N for "NickNack". The main color is orange as that was his request.