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  %h2 Ariejan's Projects
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      ## Focal

      Focal is a utility web application that creates sexy and informative burndowns
      for you and your team.

      Hooked up to the Pivotal Tracker API, Focal will gather information about the
      current iteration on a daily basis and provide you and the team with valuable
      progress information.

      _Focal is developed by Kabisa._

      * [Github](https://github.com/kabisaict/focal)

      ## IMDB

      The IMDB gem allows you to programatically access IMDB. Although IMDB does not
      officially expose an API you are able to look at what's on their public pages.

      * [Github](https://github.com/ariejan/imdb)

      ## Firefly

      At the height of 140 character limited tweets, URL shortners where the hippest
      thing around.

      Firefly provides you with a personal url shortner. It can be easily deployed to
      Heroku and it has proven to be able to handle millions of shortened URLs.

      * [Website](http://fireflyrb.com)
      * [Github](https://github.com/ariejan/firefly)

      ## PostcodeAPI

      A simple ruby wrapper around the [Postcode API service](http://www.postcodeapi.nu/).

      * [Github](https://github.com/ariejan/postcodeapi)

      ## elfproef

      The 11-check is a checksum algorithm used to validate Dutch bank account numbers and
      social security numbers.

      This gem allows you to add validations to your Rails models for these kind of fields.

      * [Github](https://github.com/sytzeloor/elfproef)