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Gherkin lets developers and customers develop software together

You develop software together, as a software engineer and customer. This involves a series of translations from the business to the final software. The trick is to limit the number of translation steps, because with every translation you lose nuances. This is possible by bringing software engineers and clients closer together and actually having them develop together. With Gherkin, they can speak the same language and describe software behaviour (BDD). And build even more intensively together.

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Tom Schenkenberg

May 28, 2018

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More and more technical debt assistance in software development

Are you already in need of technical ‘debt assistance’ for your business software? With the development of almost all software, a technical debt is built up, mainly to achieve results quickly. That doesn’t have to be a problem, as long as you handle it well and consciously.

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Tom Schenkenberg

May 2, 2018

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2018: year of the Progressive Web Apps

Mobile apps are useful, but also a growing problem. More and more organizations, events, services and locations have their own app and they all want you to install their app on your smartphone or iPhone. That approach and proliferation is untenable. Fortunately, the Progressive Web App (PWA) offers a solution.

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Tom Schenkenberg

January 22, 2018

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The new ambition: per piece production for software

In software development we can learn a lot from production companies. Especially to make software development better and more efficient and to use it more purposefully for the success of organisations. The per piece production model offers a solution, also for software.

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Tom Schenkenberg

November 9, 2017

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Unleash your business and data with an API

Because of the digital transformation that organizations make, they often unlock information via beautifully designed websites and applications. Those who look and think further, sometimes take the next step: access via an API (Application Programming Interface). This offers many opportunities, but organizations often see it as a difficult step.

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Tom Schenkenberg

August 30, 2017

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11th edition of our Dutch PHP Conference

Every year Ibuildings organises an international conference on PHP technology: the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC). Last week was already the 11th edition of our successful conference where some 630 developers, software architects and community members come together in the Amsterdam RAI.

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Tom Schenkenberg

July 5, 2017

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Renovate old business software: consider it!

When custom business software becomes obsolete, many organizations choose almost automatically to have completely new software built. Renovation is often not considered. While in 70 percent of the cases it is more successful and cheaper. It is an interesting option, which I would always consider. Because that old application often has great treasures hidden in it.

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Tom Schenkenberg

May 15, 2017

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Stay in control of critical business software

In order to focus on core activities, organisations often know very well which tasks they have to do themselves or can outsource. But as soon as it comes to the software that supports the same core business, there is strikingly less straightforward thinking about it.

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Tom Schenkenberg

March 27, 2017

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Will it be customised, standard software or the ideal mix?

Now that organisations are consciously making the transition from ‘business’ to ‘online business’, web applications and other software are becoming more and more decisive for their success. When choosing between ‘custom or standard software’, a mix is becoming more and more interesting, but how do you find the perfect balance?

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Tom Schenkenberg

February 21, 2017

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Technical skills at Ibuildings

For many years Ibuildings has had a formalized way of reviewing people’s skill sets. This system enables tracking of skills and relative changes in those skills over the years, across the organization.

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Matthias Noback

January 25, 2017

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DomCode 2016 Conference Report

Last Friday I attended the DomCode conference in Utrecht. This is a very friendly, inclusive, welcoming conference.

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Matthias Noback

November 7, 2016

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When to write tests?

In previous articles we answered some important questions already: why would you write tests in the first place? And, will it make you faster or slower?

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Matthias Noback

September 1, 2016

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