The past year has posed challenging times for everyone, both in a personal and professional sense. With the light at the end of the tunnel getting closer, Trifork has news that makes that light shine even brighter (at least we think so!). It’s out with the old, and in with the new: Trifork Amsterdam is […]
Kotlin – just another programming language?
Recently, I attended the Kotlin programming language conference, aptly named KotlinConf, to learn about the latest developments in the language. Naturally, my first idea for this blog was to list the top takeaways of the talks I attended. However, I thought it could be more useful for those who aren’t familiar with Kotlin yet to […]
Top take-aways from TEQNation
Last week, on May 15, I had the pleasure of attending the TEQNation conference. While I had been to this NLJUG event before, it felt like my first time again. Not only because of the amazing new location—the industrial chic De Fabrique—also because it’s my first time attending as a budding programmer. Although, given the […]
Do or Do Not
What a great day this week. Privileged to be invited to talk to a great group of people about AI, Machine learning, and how to start the digital transformation needed to start using this all. New Tech from the business point of view. Is there another way to look at it? The audience was from […]
Interview with Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices
After living in Australia for the last five years, the Londoner, and author of the well-received Building Microservices, has returned home to focus on his business as an independent consultant. We caught up via Skype to discuss his upcoming visit to Amsterdam and the tech trends that he is keeping his eye on. Reading time: […]
Elastic{ON} 2016
Last week a colleague and I attended Elastic{ON} in San Francisco. The venue at Pier 48 gave a nice view on (among others) the Oakland Bay Bridge. Almost 2000 Elastic fanatics converged to listen to and talk about everything in the Elastic Stack. I have been to a lot of sessions. I think the two […]
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) […]
WWDC 2015: Auto Layout improvements
Last weekend I arrived home safe and sound, already missing San Francisco. I had a wonderful time there and I have lots to talk about, but there was one topic in particular I think was not highlighted enough. That’s why I want to discuss it here. It was discussed in the following talks during WWDC: […]
WWDC Day 1 continued
Hello again from San Francisco! I just came back from the conference after attending it for the third day in a row! I have seen many interesting talks so far ranging from Swift to WatchKit and UI design. There is so much to talk about, but in my previous blog entry I could only cover […]
WWDC Day 1
Greetings from my hotel room in San Francisco, from where I’m writing this blog post. Right now it’s Tuesday evening and it has been two exciting days at the WWDC which takes place this week from Monday the 8th until Friday the 12th of June as I had announced earlier. Although I have three more […]