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Digitizing subsidies at Sint-Niklaas

The city of Sint-Niklaas has decided to work on digitizing its grants and subsidies to improve its services for its citizens and businesses. The old system of paper applications, processing, and verification was extremely time-consuming, making the subsidy granting…

Is your team building products or creating solutions?

From experience, I can tell you that the process of building products is expensive and complex. A common mistake product teams still make is starting by thinking about the actual product rather than discovering why and for who they are…

Code optimization: changing the way you approach repetitive tasks

Imagine: you are working on a specific problem. After much trial and error, your code finally does what it is supposed to do. The solution is neither elegant nor very efficient, but you have already spent more time…

My perspective on the retrospective

To achieve a project or product team’s goals, you need a solid group of like-minded people to work together. Finding such a group of people is one thing; maintaining and improving their qualities is another. Luckily, agile development has the solution: a…

‘Bubble Jump’ — Building an augmented reality game during my internship

Taking a detour — Machine learning internship

As a third-year student in Applied Informatics at UCLL, I started looking for an internship early in the…

Why outlines are essential (and how to use them correctly) — CSS

If you only have used the attribute outlines in CSS to disable them, you need to continue reading this blog on using outlines correctly!

Nelleke’s take on project management and AI

‘Next-level drive and dive’ is typical for project manager Nelleke Doyen. She puts her talent for ‘bringing gusto’ in projects to good use in her work, where she brings her passion for innovative technology, AI, and people to life. Read her story.

How to build an inclusive work environment

Most companies agree that inclusion and diversity are important and many of them claim that they harbor an inclusive work environment. For them, this often means not discriminating against people based on their skin color, background, gender, and so on. A…

How you can help your football club to a #1 place with your smartwatch

“How can we improve fan experience during a sports match?”

That was the central question for the 24-hour hackathon organized by Raccoons, Inspire Sports, and Pro League football club…