Workshop Tuesday evening, 1800, rain, large room, 30 seats, the start of a workshop in digital transformation. Always great to start a workshop in the evening. Workshops after regular working hours means having people that really want to be there. Personal drive, wanting to learn, personal investment at it best. The workshop is focussed on […]
Parallel Tracks
Reading Reading. Reading books. Reading books was our first way of travel. For both my wife and me reading started at a very early age. The public library was the main source of our travel experiences. We would pick up the maximum # of books each week and read them. Read them fast. All the […]
Machine Learning: Predicting house prices
Recently I have followed an online course on machine learning to understand the current hype better. As with any subject though, only practice makes perfect, so i was looking to apply this new knowledge. While looking to sell my house I found that would be a nice opportunity: Check if the prices a real estate […]
Personalised city trip itinerary using integer linear programming
Case As a research project I have developed an itinerary service. The idea started when I was doing a hackathon with colleagues for the city of Amsterdam (see earlier post). I wanted to recommend an itinerary to a tourist visiting the city of Amsterdam. Furthermore, I wanted to make the itinerary based on the user’s interests to recommend […]
City-wide crowd management in Amsterdam
As most residents and visitors of Amsterdam know, every year more people are visiting Amsterdam, city wide events like GayPride, Koningsdag and MuseumNacht are getting bigger and more frequent, putting more strain on the city’s infrastructure and all people living in the city center. That’s why this November 7th, Amsterdam Marketing organized the Museumn8 hackathon […]
Recognizing commercials using the Alphonso API
Liberty Global organized the Hack & Play Appathon in Ziggo dome on September 15th and 16th. More than 20 teams of hackers, designers and programmers were invited to create an app or a game for the Liberty Global product Horizon set-top box. Team Trifork joined with Dennis de Goede (Design & Frontend), Tony Abidi (Devops) […]
Large organizations are just not set up to be agile
There is something going wrong in the organization I am currently part of an onsite project, yet I can’t get my head around the specifics. This very large governmental organization is growing agile initiatives all over the IT department. Development teams are having fun talking to their customers and are trying to create the best solutions to […]
Setting up PWM as a password recovery tool for OpenLDAP
A running LDAP implementation without a password recovery service for users can be a real hassle for system administrators, in our case every time when a user forgets his/her password the only way to reset/change it was to go to the system administrator let him fix it. As a solution for this problem we stumbled […]
Pen and Paper Vs. Sketching Tools
Quite a few people have asked me over the years why I, as an interaction designer, do not use some of all the sketching and prototyping software that is out there, and why I still draw by hand despite the availability of all of these really smart and practical tools. Here’s why: When I […]
Brightcenter, the multi-user classroom solution for educative app(lication)s
Tablets inside the classroom For years now, PC/Desktops have been present in the classroom providing children and students digital learning environments. These learning environments are helping the teachers by providing interactive learning aids where children and students can independently work and learn. In primary schools, classrooms are filled with just a couple of PCs in […]