I first heard of darklang via a tweet from a Docker developer. She said it is always good to see infrastructural and code getting closer together. This intrigued me. IDE’s in the browser blew my mind — first one I heard of was cloud9 — is a great concept. And…

I made the mistake of upgrading my Ubiquity AirCam’s firmware to v3.1.4 the other day. It seemed like it was the right thing to do, since I was still running on 1.x. The problem I had after the upgrade was there isn’t a way for ZoneMinder to get access to…

When it took me a whole week to upgrade from RoboGuice 2 to 3, I should have seen it coming. Docs weren’t up to date, the examples on Stack Overflow didn’t help any more: It all pointed to the fact that no application developer wants to face: The end of…

Makerdays this winter was the first time all the Alphawave companies came together to collaborate on our free form Makerdays projects! What is a Makerday anyway? When Polymorph joined the Alphawave family, we looked at the different software teams, and what they did to maintain their skills (besides building awesome products). Completely independently, the Alphawave…

(Shields and/or swords will not be company provided.) Since we are 6 companies building software and software related products in the Alphawave group, we started thinking there must be a way of sharing all this knowledge and experience. One team might find that a specific technology is a really good…

Welcome, everyone. We are Alphawave, a group of small technology companies, that produces world class products and services. Our area of expertise is in everything from mobile apps, to VR to sales mobility and IoT. Culture of innovation Our company was founded in 1994 by 2 PhD engineering graduates, that thought working for…

I have a list of books I want to read one day stashed on a note on Google Keep. (One of those ever growing lists.) Reading one of the hundreds of Bill Gates’s summer reading list articles I wanted to optimistically add another entry to the list. Since I haven't…

TL;DR Today we are inviting beta testers for the amazing onlythefax.io project, that involves fax machines, the Internet and lots of fun! To help, please complete this form. We will honour you with immortality if you choose to help us. What is onlythefax.io? Simply onlythefax.io is the future of the fax machine. For the…

I want to come clean: I am a TV (and movie) pirate, but I want to change my ways. Here is my attempt so far. It is a little embarrassing to admit that my pirating practice continued even after getting a well paying job. …