In 2011 we launched SearchWorkings.org, a community website that aimed to bring search professionals together, mostly around open source search technologies like Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. At the time, the number of resources providing high value content around those technologies was limited. Therefore, we created the searchworkings portal, providing blog entries, white papers and […]
Build massively scalable soft real-time systems with Erlang
Today I just wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you to Erlang Solutions (a part of the Trifork group). From later this week, Erlang Solutions starts a new series of webinars aiming to showcase practical use cases of Erlang. As an open source language designed for programming concurrent, real-time, distributed fault-tolerant systems, Erlang found […]
Migrating Apache Solr to Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine, based on Apache Lucene. Over the past several years, at Trifork we have been doing a lot of search implementations. Driven by the fact that every other customer wanted the ‘Google-experience’ (just a text box, type some text and get relevant results) as part […]
GOTO Night 12-12-12 and Breaking News!
GOTO Night, December 12th. Limited spaces so sign up now! This Wednesday on the legendary day, 12-12-12, the GOTO Night is going to take place. This free event will be held in the centre of Amsterdam and will be hosted by E-buddy. We are very proud to present our two speakers for the evening, Erik […]
University of Amsterdam website goes live
Congratulations to our client the University of Amsterdam who today launched their new website. With a new look & feel and a complete update of all the existing content it’s a showcase of how educational institutions can really provide relevant information to varied target audiences. The site built by us, Orange11, with the use of Hippo CMS now makes it […]
Summer time…
For those you may have missed our newsletter last week I’d like to take this opportunity to give you a quick lowdown of what we’ve been up to. The summer months have been far from quiet and I’m pretty excited to share in this month’s edition lots of news on projects, products & upcoming events. […]
A front-end developer surrounded by a horde of scary “Enterprise Java” developers?
Orange11 is urgently looking for an accomplished front-end developer. We’re looking for a person that obviously has extensive experience using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3. But, more importantly, we’re looking for a developer that really has an opinion to share; about most things really; but certainly on how to build high quality, maintainable applications (which patterns, frameworks, etc) […]
Digital assessments with the QTI delivery engine
For many of our customers in the Education domain we have spent a lot of time looking and exploring the impact of technology; in this particularly case especially with regards to digital assessments. Developing good digital assessment techniques is very important in order to measure and examine what students are actually learning. We are proud […]
Orange11 Tech Meeting – Sign up now for the April tech meeting
Although the name has changed, the concept is still the same! 😉 We organize our monthly FREE tech meeting with typically two sessions on interesting (technical) topics. The session are held at our office in Amsterdam, start at 16.00, end around 20.00 and include beer & pizza. The topics for this month’s session on Thursday […]
Dutchworks is now Orange11!
I know this message may come as somewhat of a surprise to you, however as of today “Dutchworks” (and prior to that “JTeam”) will be known as “Orange11”. Our name change comes several months after the recent rebrand to “Dutchworks”, and is the result of a legal claim made from a third party owning the […]