Welcome to Beaux Creations Group!

Beaux Creations is a partnership between two brothers:

Gerhard & Barry Oosthuizen.

Gerhard Oosthuizen

Gerhard is a professional graphic designer with over 11 years experience.

He has a keen interest in 3d modelling and ray tracing, car design and music.

Check out his gallery at http://nekarxenos.deviantart.com/gallery

All logos and artwork on this site are the copyright of Gerhard Oosthuizen

Barry Oosthuizen

Barry is a professional web developer specialising in PHP, MySQL & Javascript.

He has worked with Content Management, E - Learning, E - Commerce & CRM systems.

His background in database programming started with Visual Basic & MS Access and he has now progressed to work with pure open source web development technologies.

He regularly uses complex SQL (database query language) queries while programming with PHP.

Barry focusses on optimising performance by implementing best practices in regards to database design and implementation.

A number of his custom modules / modifications to existing code are available for download under an open source license (GPL).

Barry enjoys adding that extra touch to applications using AJAX & Javascript for things like drag and drop, quick navigation and creating interactive web applications.

Here is a short list of Barry's recent code developments:

1. Customised Attendance Module

1. Barcode Scanning
2. Flexible policy (attendance rules) definition
   
3. AJAX Scheduler (Drag and drop like Google Calendar)
4. Extra meta data fields (teacher, subject, title)
5. Extra status fields (make up notes, sick notes)
   
6. Report Builder
1. Filter by course, student, date range, status
2. Detail / Summary report types
3. AJAX updating of status fields
   

2. AJAX Grade Report with:

1. Complex filters
2. Column sorting
3. Frozen columns/headers
4. Excel / csv export
5. Print view
6. Show/hide columns
   

3. Theme Development

4. Custom PHP & CSS hacks for:

1. Printer friendly pages
2. Optimizing Gradebook views (making it narrower and managable)
3. Viewing multiple courses in one report

A live demo of some of Barry's code developments are available on the E - Learning Demo site which also contains examples of other activities which can be used on a popular open source Learning Management System / Virtual Learning Environment.