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New InformationGrid release ‘Galibier’ available

A new major update of InformationGrid was released on January 21st. This release, named ‘Galibier’ after a 2.642m tall mountain in southern France, contains the following new features: Blob store support Configurable resource transformers Schema repository with mongo backend Java 11 support (beta) New Workbench management console Besides new features, several improvements have been made […]

Luminis Apeldoorn has moved

The Apeldoorn office of Luminis will be situated at the Wapenrustlaan in Apeldoorn as of 1 January 2020. The central location of the new office will allow Luminis a faster and smoother way to connect with customers and partners. Luminis Apeldoorn uses emerging information technology to provide organisations and government bodies with innovative solutions. After […]

Another FD Gazellen award for Luminis

In a spectacular award show the new FD Gazelle awards were presented in the Orpheus Theatre in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands on 12 November 2019. The FD Gazelle awards are a recognition for fast growing companies with a year on year growth of at least 20% over the last three years. Luminis falls in the ‘large […]

Luminis Devcon 2020

And…the date has been set! Please mark May 14th 2020 in your agenda as this is the date for the 6th edition of Luminis Devcon. More information will follow soon. Meanwhile you can enjoy the 2019 aftermovie:

Soundbyte 408 – Building Character

The nice thing about music is that the meaning of a song often is different depending on who you ask. I picked this song by Depeche Mode as it has a very positive association to me, the “best friend” in the lyrics in this case probably being the race car you depend on when competing. […]

Soundbyte 406: True sorry

During the summer holidays, it seems people are taking time to reflect on matters they pretend they don’t have time for during the rest of the year. We Dutch love to travel around the world during the summer break, but we somehow just can’t get away from each other. Almost everywhere you are you will […]

Luminis is Microsoft Gold partner for DevOps services

Amersfoort – Software and technology company Luminis recently had the honour of becoming a Microsoft Gold Partner in the DevOps competency. Every year Microsoft only rewards a few companies with Gold-status recognition in particular competencies. Accreditation is awarded to companies that are able to constantly deliver high-quality services and developments. Earlier this year, Luminis was […]

Raymond ter Riet appointed the director of Luminis Technology in Business

Amersfoort – Raymond ter Riet has been appointed the director of Luminis Technology in Business (TIB). The appointment of Raymond ter Riet marks another important step in Luminis’ product development and the further fulfilment of its international growth ambitions. Raymond is the successor of Marcel Offermans, who will focus on Studio 397: Luminis’ gaming studio […]

Soundbyte 397: Watch The World Burn

It is Sunday night and my glass is half empty. To get into the right mood for this Soundbyte, I’d suggest to play the video underneath. WHAAT? Is that too loud for you? 😉 Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech on Cloud computing to a room full of C-level […]

Soundbyte 396: The Art of Having Bad Ideas

Okay, I’ll admit that I shamelessly stole the title of this Soundbyte from a wonderful keynote session I attended this week from Tobias Ahlin, lead designer of Minecraft and Spotify/Github alumnus. In our profession, where there’s often no physical component to our work in sight, it’s all about having the right ideas. But how do […]

New release of the InformationGrid available

Apeldoorn – On Tuesday May 21st a new version of the InformationGrid was released. The InformationGrid is Luminis’ low code platform for data-intensive cloud applications. In this release a number of new features was introduced to further maximize the productivity of analysts and developers. The Encrenaz release, contains the following improvements: • Support for end-to-end […]

Soundbyte 391: Dear Brother

I’m sitting here and enjoying the last rays of the best Easter sun we’ve had for years. And I must admit that I really enjoyed it. It just shows how much I enjoy the change of seasons here in The Netherlands. I am so looking forward to the long and warm days of summer. And, […]

Luminis organizes the fifth edition of DevCon

Utrecht – On Thursday 11 April 2019, Luminis organized the fifth edition of its annual developer community event, DevCon. The conference not only focused on developments in the field of Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence and the latest trends in software technology, but also delved into the ethical and cultural considerations involved in the Internet and […]

Soundbyte 390: Crystalline

Whenever something that I have been looking forward to is over, I feel so sad and empty inside. The bigger the event, the worse the feeling. I can vividly remember falling into the black hole after my first birthday-disco-party was over and my last friend left. I just wanted it to not be over, I […]

Roparun and Luminis announce partnership

Rotterdam – On March 1st, 2019, Roparun and Luminis announced that they are starting a partnership with the intent to transform Roparun’s IT. This partnership aims to help Roparun to benefit from the advantages of Cloud computing and data intelligence. The long term objective is to optimize the funding efficiency of the organization’s charitable work. […]

Bert Ertman appointed VP Technology at Luminis

Amersfoort – Software technology company Luminis wants to strengthen its leading position in the field of Cloud computing by appointing Bert Ertman VP Technology. Bert is actively involved in Luminis’ Cloud strategy and will be responsible for the partnerships with AWS and Microsoft: our strategic Cloud partners. By combining products and services, Luminis can optimally […]

Modern Development with Java

A three day training course bringing students up to date with the latest in Java 8 and beyond. This course covers the key features around functional programming with Java 8 over the first two days. You then build upon this theory by refactoring a project using different modern concurrency techniques including promises using Java 8’s […]

Soundbyte 388 – Leadership

I was planning on writing an extensive Soundbyte about all kinds cool stuff that kept me busy lately. I was working on a mix about game theory, zero trust, taking on new challenges and cloud computing. But then I saw this post by Jessie Frazelle, an awesome engineer I’ve been following on Twitter & Github […]

Soundbyte 387 – Riders on the Storm

Saturday evening, the wind is howling through the trees, as I return from my evening walk with our dog Penny. Earlier that day, Erica and Penny did a massive 18 km trail across the beaches and dunes of the beautiful island of Ameland. Right now, with wind force seven sandblasting everything that dares to stick […]

Soundbyte 385: System Beeps

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting an event with ‘Uncle Bob’ (Robert C. Martin) as ApeldoornJUG lead. Virtually every developer knows Robert Martin from his Clean Code book, so this was a great way to kick-off the ApeldoornJUG. It’s an initiative started by Luminis Apeldoorn together with Belastingdienst (Dutch Tax […]

New release of the InformationGrid available

Apeldoorn – On Monday February 4th a new version of the InformationGrid was released. The InformationGrid is Luminis’ low code aPaaS for the development of data-intensive cloud-native applications. In this release a number of new features were introduced to further maximize the productivity of analysts and developers. The new release (named Dochamps.1 ), contains the following improvements: • Integration […]

Soundbyte 382: Paranoid

Only recently I started watching Black Mirror episodes on Netflix. Somehow I just cannot find the time to keep up with all the cool TV series out there, and there are just too many of them too. As a result I have a huge backlog of series to watch, and keep on getting more recommendations […]

Luminis is Microsoft Gold Partner

Amersfoort – Every year Microsoft only rewards a few companies with Gold-status recognition in particular competencies. Accreditation is awarded to companies that are able to constantly deliver high-quality services and developments. Software and technology company Luminis recently had the honor of becoming a Microsoft Gold Partner in the Application Development competency. This partnership is in […]

Soundbyte 377: Giant Steps

Right. This is the last thing I am going to do in 2018 before I start with the oliebollen (some call it Dutch doughnuts, but that doesn’t come close to what they represent) and bubbles. Just relaxing while writing this Soundbyte after a number of laid-back days around the Christmas period. I know, it would […]

Soundbyte 374: Here is the news

Three more weeks before our next solar lap and incidentally also my tenth soundbyte (yay me) One of the more interesting events this week was Bert’s presentation during our Luminis Arnhem meeting. He talked about how we should put our heads in the cloud next year. He gave an overview of the current cloud landscape […]

Soundbyte 370: The Witness Trees

Kon-nichiwa. While you are reading this I am high in the sky somewhere between Amsterdam and Tokyo. In the week to come I will take part in the Japan leg of the Oracle Groundbreakers Asia Pacific tour. It is sort of the Asian version of Java…errr… CodeOne, but then in the form of a whole […]

Luminis releases a new version of the InformationGrid

Apeldoorn – On Monday November 5th a new version of the InformationGrid was released. The InformationGrid is a PaaS with high productivity characteristics for the development of data-intensive cloud-native applications. By using the combination of domain-specific languages (DSL) and declarative models, the InformationGrid aims to minimize hand-crafted code. By combining this with a multi-cloud infrastructure, a next generation […]

Soundbyte 369: Mag het licht uit

Op zondagavond om 19.00 is het voor mij toch nog vaak het moment om voetbal te kijken. De samenvattingen van een weekend Nederlandse competitie trekt dan weer voorbij. Echter vanavond liep het wat anders. Bij de wedstrijd van Feyenoord, in de kuip, viel het licht uit en dit was niet snel te herstellen. De wedstrijd Feyenoord – VVV werd […]

Soundbyte 368: Fly

Even though it may not be completely in the spirit of Soundbytes, I’m writing this one on Thursday, while waiting for my flight back home. It’s been an exhausting but also rewarding week at the Oracle Code One conference in San Francisco. Wait, what? Wasn’t JavaOne supposed to happen around these days? Yep, that’s right, […]

Luminis intensiveert relatie met Microsoft

Amersfoort – Luminis is Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) voor Microsoft geworden. Hierdoor kan Luminis haar portfolio verder uitbreiden door ook de software van Microsoft rechtstreeks te kunnen leveren aan haar klanten. Deze intensivering van de relatie met Microsoft op het gebied van Cloud-technologie past in de internationale strategie van Luminis die erop gericht is om […]

Luminis intensifies relationship with Microsoft

Amersfoort – Software technology company Luminis is awarded Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) status. Luminis, one of the leading IT companies in the Netherlands is a long-standing Microsoft partner that has achieved the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) status. CSP is a Microsoft offering that enables authorized partners the ability to bundle Microsoft Cloud along with their own services. […]

Winner of the Dutch FD Gazellen Award

Luminis won the Dutch entrepreneurial award “FD Gazellen”. We are very proud to be awarded as being one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands. The FD Gazellen Award is an initiative of a Dutch financial magazine, called Financieele Dagblad, and focuses on successful and fast growing companies. Luminis has shown above-average growth over the […]

Soundbyte 367 : Don’t look down

Anybody catch the USA Grand Prix last night? If you didn’t: stop reading and watch this video instead. You’ll probably understand why I’m a big fan of Formula 1, Max Verstappen and Kimmi Raikkonen 🙂 Sorry embedding is not allowed, so here is the direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwPpqaLE60 The rest of my week has been about Security […]

New head-office for Luminis Nederland in Amersfoort

Luminis Nederland opens a new head-office in Amersfoort. Luminis is pleased to announce that the head-office of the dutch organisation, Luminis Nederland, has moved from Apeldoorn to Amersfoort. Effective from the 1st of October, the new head-office will prove to be a perfect hub for all operations in The Netherlands. The new head-office of Luminis […]

Soundbyte 362: Pop 101

September: the month where everything’s booting up again after a well-deserved summer break. Schools, work, the tech conference season, my laptop… Oh wait, my personal MBP doesn’t actually boot anymore since spilling tea on it last week, tough luck. But, there’s another milestone in September that I want to talk about: the release of Java […]

Devoxx4Kids Zwolle

Programming is cool! Are you between 10 and 14 years old and have you always wanted to build your own robot, develop a game or be the boss of a Minecraft-world? Then, join us in Zwolle on Saturday 9 november 2019. Because at that moment, the best (and coolest) computer programmers of Luminis will teach you […]

Soundbyte 356: Not Yet

Did someone mention the heat? It feels like one of those things it’s so obvious nobody is talking about it anymore. Especially on the news. And what about the drought? Thank god there are still plenty of AC’s in stock so we don’t have to sweat so much we can water our plants. Like this […]

Luminis’ Cloud platform now on UK Government G-Cloud 10

Software technology company Luminis registered their seminal Cloud platform on the UK Government’s G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. Government Cloud (G-Cloud 10) is a UK government initiative to ease procurement of cloud services by government departments and to promote government-wide adoption of cloud computing. Luminis UK proactively encourages departments and authorities across the United Kingdom to use […]

New release for Luminis’ Open Source project Amdatu

Luminis releases Blueprint r3 of open source project Amdatu. With Amdatu blueprint we provide a standardized workspace that provides templates to get quickly you up and running with building modular applications using Amdatu components. Luminis is one of the founding members of the Amdatu Foundation and its Open Source project. In this release Luminis added support for creating Docker […]

Soundbyte 350: The Waters

Sunday evening, just after 9 o’clock and I’m enjoying a nice white Burgundy wine after a weekend with lots of sports on TV and some productive home improvement. And that was a perfect closure of a busy week where I was involved in lots of discussions about Luminis and fast changing world around us. The […]

Soundbyte 348: Sloe Gin

Everything is changing, isn’t it? Software is changing the world….but is everything susceptible to change? At a strategy day of one of our (insurance) customers this past week, an analysis was made that the entity model of their back-end had seen no significant changes over the past 10-15 years. They did see a lot of […]

Soundbyte 346: In the blood

End game I saw this tweet last week and thought: YES so much this! Here is my application, run it for me, when and where I want it, securely. That’s the end game. — Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) May 22, 2018 Have a look at the part of our strategy document about Technology Propositions. Our […]

Soundbyte 343: King’s Day

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend as much as I did. Our national King’s Day somehow forces us all to be outside and mingle, and that’s a good thing. It’s also a great day for kids to discover their inner entrepreneurs. Turns out those music lessons do come in handy when you want to […]

Soundbyte 342 – Killing In the name

A bit later than expected, but here’s my Soundbyte. During the weekend I couldn’t tear myself away from my somewhat happy-go-lucky position in the sun and the work Elvire and I were doing: trying to fix the coffee-machine (which proved to be quite a daunting task considering the sunshine, the after-effects of a busy week and […]

The importance of collaboration emphasized at the Luminis annual software developers’ conference

The software technology company Luminis held its annual developer community event on Thursday 12th of April 2018. The Luminis DevCon highlights the latest software trends and technologies. “Software is changing the world”, stated Luminis’ CEO: Hans Bossenbroek, at the opening of Devcon; “and these changes demand that we find new ways to collaborate and share knowledge”. […]

Soundbyte 341: Running Up That Hill

(For best results, image me — tall, white, handsome, rich and super duper smart — standing naked in a busy shopping street, screaming the words below and blaring Kate Bush through my phone speaker.) Summer guests Oh my god, my Luminis Soundbyte™ debut, I’m so excited! While cleaning the bathroom every Sunday (also naked, except for the […]

Jeroen Bouvrie appointed as head of Luminis Netherlands

Luminis has announced that Jeroen Bouvrie has been appointed as head of Luminis Netherlands with immediate effect. This appointment is one of a number of internal changes in response to Luminis’ continued growth – both in the Netherlands and internationally. It coincides with the 16th anniversary of Luminis’ foundation. Jeroen Bouvrie is a founder member […]

Soundbyte 339 – Iron Flower

This week’s sound to accompany this little byte comes from a belgium band called K’s Choice and is titled Iron Flower. I’m not even going to begin to try to explain the lyrics, because after all these years I still have no clue. Regardless of that it is a very powerful and beautiful song! With […]

Brain Upgrade about Quantum Computing!

On May 2nd we are hosting a Brain Upgrade session in Eindhoven. Angelo van der Sijpt, fellow of Luminis in Eindhoven, will give you all the ins and outs about Quantum Computing. Cherry-red sports cars go up into space, the most traded currency has no physical equivalent, and quantum computing is just around the corner: […]

Soundbyte 333: Moonlight Sonata

Another tumultuous week in the world of politics. One Dutch member of cabinet had to resign due to lying through his teeth, but that’s not even the biggest event. Ever since FBI director Comey was fired May last year, I developed an unhealthy obsession following the news around Robert Mueller’s investigation into election interference in […]

Soundbyte 332: Speak!

Speak! That is exactly what I have been doing for the past few weeks. In fact I have just returned from a trip to Stockholm, Sweden, where I was invited to present a couple sessions at the Jfokus conference. Jfokus is one of the leading software development conferences in the Nordics and from 2012 onwards […]

Soundbyte 328: Off-key

This was the first week for me to start working again after the holidays. During my time off with Christmas and New Year, I battled with my phone, computer, and tablet to ignore the gradually increasing unread-messages number in my inbox. The upside of success is that you really get to unplug, the downside is […]

Soundbyte 326: Rebel without a Pause (and others)

Just another day and then Elvire and I will go to Schiermonnikoog for a couple of days; enjoying the simple things of life like fresh air, a walk on the beach and probably lots of rain. This will be a nice change from all the overviews, retrospectives, rankings, polls and disaster predictions that I have […]

Soundbyte 324: Talking to Myself

As we are drawing closer to the year’s end, it has been a bit of a lazy week in tech news. The only real disturbance in the force was caused by the FCC killing net neutrality in the US. While anticipated, it is yet another political disaster tearing up the place. Although our own political […]

Devoxx4Kids Enschede

—This edition of Devoxx4Kids in Enschede is sold out. There are no places left. If you register you will be put on a waiting list.— Programming is cool! Are you between 10 and 14 years old and have you always wanted to build your own robot, develop a game or be the boss of a Minecraft-world? Then, join us […]

Soundbyte 323 – City I love to hate

Just back from Las Vegas after visiting the AWS re:Invent conference, my head is spinning with so many impressions. I’ve been to Vegas twice in the past, both times by myself. I didn’t like the place at all: too loud, too crowded and overall just a very strange place that is like no other city I […]

To go forward you have to leave something behind .. ..

December is voor veel van ons de maand van terugkijken, maar ook een van saamhorigheid. Met de gezelligheid van Sinterklaas, Kerst en Oud- en nieuw. Hoewel het jaar nog niet voorbij is kijk ik nu al met veel plezier terug op 2017. In de eerste plaats omdat we als kern samen een leuk jaar hebben […]

Soundbyte 321 – Energized!

“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.” – Henry Ford Less than a week ago, the finals for McLaren’s World’s Fastest Gamer were decided. It was the end of 10 exciting days at their headquarters that saw a group of 12 simracers being reduced to 6, 3, then 2, to finally […]

Luminis in Amsterdam moves to Suikersilo-West!

The Amsterdam-based subsidiary of the software technology group Luminis, has relocated to Suikersilo-West in Halfweg. This move reflects the substantial growth that Luminis in Amsterdam has experienced over the past few years; the new, spacious and modern offices provide an ideal working environment and a great place to meet with our customers and partners. Luminis […]

Studio397 at the National Sport Conference

Luminis is coming to the national sport conference in Gorinchem on behalf of Studio397 on the 15th and 16th of november. This sport conference has a unique concept in which deliverers and stakeholders of sports come together. This is the 6th time it is organised by ZPRESS. It will be the first time for Studio397 to […]

eSports platform at Trendship

Race-platform for eSports: virtual racing in the real world Studio397 is present at Trendship on october 19th. Trendship is an event that focuses on the newest technology, (digital) trends and business innovation. Studio 397 is a part of the software- and technology company Luminis. Studio397 is a leading party in the race-simulations business with their simulator rFactor 2. rFactor 2 is a simulation platform which […]

Soundbyte 313: Devotion

You’re getting this soundbyte a little bit later than normal, but with a good reason: JavaOne 2017 is currently in full swing. Rather than giving you a bland preview last Sunday, you’ll now get an update on everything that happened. And what a great week this has been for Luminis at JavaOne! As most of […]

Luminis wins prestigious international Java Innovation Award

San Francisco – Monday October 2nd 2017, the Dutch software technology company Luminis was presented with a Duke’s Choice Award during JavaOne. The Dukes Choice Awards are widely known as the “Oscars of the Java world” and are awarded for the most innovative application of Java. Luminis’ award is in recognition of its design and […]

Soundbyte 312: Man and machine

One of the nice perks when working at Luminis is that you can pick a new lease car every four years. Last week my new car finally arrived and I have to say, it’s awesome. Not because it’s faster, more powerful or has some super cool engine, but because of the driver assist extras I […]

Soundbyte 311: Down Poison

Last week could be labeled as the ‘grand opening of conference season’. The next three months (September, October, November) will be crammed with conferences all over the world. As always, speakers from Luminis will give it their best at a number of these conferences, or at least at the most interesting ones. JavaZone For me, that […]

Soundbyte 309 – One Shot!

It’s been a while since I wrote my last soundbyte, so it’s a good time to reflect on and talk about an exciting live event coming up this evening. As usual, I will start by introducing the song I picked, which comes from the movie 8 mile and reflects the unique opportunity offered to a […]

Brain Upgrade: What’s new in Java 9

What’s new in Java 9? Join our free knowledge session, the Luminis Brain Upgrade, about Java 9 on September 19th 2017. In this session colleague Sander Mak will discuss the new features. Sander Mak is is author of the forthcoming O’Reilly book, Java 9 Modularity. All the participants of this session will receive the first edition […]

Luminis helps children on their way with computers at Devoxx4kids in Apeldoorn

The Devoxx4kids event was organized by the software company: Luminis, to improve the province’s childrens’ understanding of what they can do with computers. APELDOORN – On Saturday 1st July 2017, Luminis organized a Devoxx4Kids event in Apeldoorn. Devoxx4kids is worldwide movement, committed to helping children learn to program computers. More than 60 children between the […]

Soundbyte 300: The one moment

After a week of intense temperatures I’m grateful I can write this Soundbyte in relatively cool air. It’s not only the temperatures that have been intense: we’ve recently moved to a new home, which brings its own set of challenges. Countless rides to Ikea and construction markets have been wearing me down, but the end […]

Soundbyte 298: Familiar Conversations

On the last day of Pentecost, with a lot more alcohol in my veins than on an average Monday night, I try to capture my thoughts. It’s a lot harder these past months which won’t come as a surprise for those who know me a bit better. Ever since I’ve gotten back from Tallahassee I […]

Soundbyte 297: Aerials

Starting the week with a slight buzz still in my head from the Luminis 15 year party of the previous weekend. I had a great time celebrating the past 15 years (of which I have been a part for a little over 5,5 years now) and also looking forward in excitement for the next 15 […]

Soundbyte 290 – Best of me

This soundbyte is only available in Dutch: http://www.luminis.eu/nl/soundbytes-nl/soundbyte-290-best/

IT-company Luminis organizes Devoxx4Kids in Apeldoorn

On Saturday 1st July in Apeldoorn, the software- and technology-company Luminis is organizing the global Devoxx4Kids event for children. During the event, children aged between 10 and 14 years will follow a number of interactive workshops aimed at introducing children to computer programming and encouraging them to use computers creatively. Registration is via Luminis’ website. Programming […]

Devoxx4Kids – the Luminis Edition

Programmeren is cool! Ben jij tussen de 10 en 14 jaar en heb jij altijd al je eigen robot willen bouwen, een game willen ontwikkelen of de baas van een Minecraft-wereld willen zijn? Kom dan naar Apeldoorn op zaterdag 1 juli 2017. Hier leren de beste (en de leukste) computerprogrammeurs van Luminis jou precies hoe je […]

Luminis DevCon: IT-trends and the latest technologies

The 3rd major, annual IT conference: Luminis DevCon, organized by the software and technology company Luminis, is to be held on Thursday 6th April 2017. The venue is the CineMec cinema rooms in Ede. This year’s event will focus on trends and the latest software development technologies. Multiple technical sessions will be presented by renowned […]

Soundbyte 282: Homecoming

My week started eleven days ago when boarding the plane back to Amsterdam, marking the very end of a year working and living in Florida. I’m not even sure how often I took that particular flight, but with two bicycles, five suitcases, and four carry-ons, this trip was nothing like any other. (Skipping over the fact […]

Soundbyte 281: Giving an example

Het is duidelijk te merken dan we in de opmaat zijn in Nederland naar de verkiezingen. Alles wat gezegd wordt ligt op een weegschaal en wordt door campagnestrategen demografisch gewogen. Zonde! Hoe mooi zou het zijn als je uit mag gaan van de oprechtheid van de ander en niet ergens iets achter dient te zoeken […]

DevCon 2017: the Art of Software Engineering

Luminis’ DevCon is our 3rd annual “for developers by developers” IT conference. On April 6th 2017 we will again celebrate the art of software engineering at the CineMec Venue in Ede. Join us and we promise this year it is going to be even brighter and more fun. More information and registration: devcon.luminis.eu. “Knowledge is […]

Soundbyte 278: Moth into Flame

Believe it or not, but this is actually my first Soundbyte since joining Luminis over five years ago. Somehow I always got away with it. I’ve read all the previous 277 ones, and now finally it is my turn. After reading so many of them, I guess I figured out the formula. When reading a […]

Luminis at Learning Technologies UK 2017

London, UK – Luminis will be present at the Learning Technologies at 1 and 2 February 2017 in London. For over 16 years now, Learning Technologies has been Europe’s leading conference for organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work. Hans Bossenbroek, CEO and co-founder of Luminis will talk about how big […]

SoundByte 271: Thunder Child

“oh well, the truth?! I’m deciding on the truth” a censor says in the song “cancel” to Anton Tsjechov in the (Dutch) musical named after the writer. A few news headlines this week made this song pop-up in my mind multiple times. Starting with the news on the impact of fake news items on Facebook. […]

Soundbyte 270: Thanksgiving

This week will be Thanksgiving in The States. By Thursday most of the families will be eating Turkey and spend a moment’s time to give thanks to all the people and things that are dear to them. And by proper American tradition, devote the following day to getting the best Black Friday deals at the […]

Soundbyte 263: RX is life

This week was a sporty week for me. Feyenoord – Ajax : 1-1, Max Verstappen in VS, Texas, Austin, out of the race early and as some people know by now, a big passion of mine, CrossFit. As my son opened his own CrossFit-box, for outsiders, this is the gym, about 1 1/2 year ago, […]

Soundbyte 262: The Way It Is

Would you like to live on Mars? With this week’s announcement by SpaceX that question got more relevance than ever. Sure, it still sounds like science fiction, but let’s face it: Elon Musk captures our imagination. Is it because he’s such an inspiring speaker? No, far from it. People listen because he has a track […]

Soundbyte 261: Another Brick in the Wall

Every September since the year 2,000, the Scottish Learning Festival (“SLF”) has been held at the SECC (Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre) in Glasgow and each year this conference attempts to inspire better teaching and learning by helping to create a confident teaching profession for the 21st century. This year saw myself, Denise and Hans […]

rFactor 2 gets a boost as ISI announce a partnership with Luminis

September 16th, 2016, Image Space Incorporated (ISI) of Michigan and the developer of the rFactor 2 simulated racing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with the Dutch software group Luminis to accelerate rFactor 2’s development. The partnership will be brought into a new company: Studio 397. Gjon Camaj, Vice President of Image Space Incorporated: “We […]

Automobilista Motorsports Simulator v1.0 released

Automobilista Motorsports Simulator v1.0 is being officially released as v1.0 this Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 after being in Early Access on Steam before. Luminis, in cooperation with Reiza Studios, developed the software that powers the latest racing simulator. Pure simulation, pure fun — Automobilista places you in the driving seat of an advanced racing simulator. […]

C# Software Development bootcamp

Designing good software is a problem that we all struggle with. How do you craft maintainable software? What are the current best practices that adapt to business needs? When should you apply them? This expert-led bootcamp course will teach you how to apply best software development practices in terms of object-oriented programming, generics programming, functional […]

Brain Upgrade: Java 9 Modularity in Action

With Java 9, modularity comes to your doorstep (whether you ordered it or not). This isn’t your average language feature: making the most out of it may involve rewiring your brain. In this session we explore the benefits of a modular codebase using Java 9 modules. Because who doesn’t like more reliable and secure applications, […]

Let’s talk about IoT – Luminis at Tele2 IoT Talks

On September 29th, Tele2 will gather exhibitors, partners and clients to IoT Talks at the Stadion Galgenwaard in Utrecht. In a constantly growing landscape and exciting time for IoT developments, Tele2’s IoT Talks will inspire and energize you to talk about IoT, increase your knowledge and have great discussions with other parts of the industry. […]

Luminis Cloud RTI now on UK Government G-Cloud

August 1th, 2016, Scotland, UK – Luminis registered their seminal Cloud platform, the “Cloud RTI”, on the UK Government’s G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. Government Cloud (G-Cloud) is a UK government initiative to ease procurement of cloud services by government departments and to promote government-wide adoption of cloud computing. Luminis UK proactively encourages departments and authorities across […]

Soundbyte 254: Wees eens dapper, ben jezelf

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Soundbyte 253: Buffalos (Bouffalant #626)

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Book release: Java 9 Modularity

With Java 9 promising to shake up the Java world with modularity in the language, Sander Mak and Paul Bakker started working with O’Reilly to publish a book about Java 9 Modularity. Progress on the book is going very well. The first chapters are completed and will be sent out for external review soon. External […]

Soundbyte 250: Blackbird

Time for another Soundbyte, after one of those perfect Sundays. Great weather, BBQ, enjoying the family, what’s not to like? Just before the weekend we had a Luminis Technologies meeting where we brainstormed about our strategy, so that definitely provided some food for thought as well. As usual, there’s lot’s of things going on in […]

Soundbyte 249: Layback waste

I still experience new things on a daily basis when living as an expat in Florida. But there is one epiphany I had this week which I think is true all over the world of software development. My revelation can be summarized as waste, a common term for lean/agile enthusiasts who try to reduce waste […]

András Király at Zandvoort

On the weekend of June 4th and 5th about 100.000 people gathered in the dunes at Zandvoort for the family racing days featuring Max Verstappen. Whilst obviously Max was the biggest crowd pleaser, arguably the best racing that weekend came from the national MaX5 Cup, a competition that, this particular weekend, featured about 50 first […]

Brain Upgrade: Security and OWASP

As a software professional, your first responsibility is delivering value to your users. A lot of this value is delivered over the internet, infrastructure you share with data thieves, scammers and malware. Data breaches or abuse, caused by bugs , non-secure systems suddenly connected to the internet and sub-par security practices reflect badly on the […]

Brain Upgrade: Continuous Delivery voor IT-managers

Aan het proces om software te ontwikkelen worden meer en nieuwe eisen gesteld. Organisaties dienen sneller veranderingen door te voeren binnen budget en planning. Continuous Delivery is een ontwikkelproces dat is gericht om ideeën zo snel en efficiënt mogelijk in productie te krijgen. Op 19 mei a.s. organiseert Luminis een Brain Upgrade (gratis kennissessie) over […]

UX-design in de praktijk, voor developers en designers

Gebruikers hebben steeds hogere verwachtingen van software, omdat zij dagelijks met de intuïtieve gebruikersinterfaces van apps in aanraking komen. UX-Design voor het digitale domein gaat ook niet zozeer over hoe de buitenkant eruit moet zien, maar vooral over hoe het product zou moeten werken, het gebruikersgemak. In deze Brain Upgrade (gratis kennissessie) vertellen Pien en […]

SoundByte 241: When the going gets tough

It’s Sunday morning, and I’ve returned from my bike ride way earlier than usual, mainly due to the winterish weather outside. There’s this weather saying “April doet wat hij wil” which fully applies to the current weather. I’ve seen everything this morning, from rain to snow to hailstones and even sunshine. Digging a bit into […]

Soundbyte 238: I owe you big time!

Too little, too late… Normaal gesproken zou je de soundbyte op zondagavond op je digitale deurmat mogen verwachten, Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! Met dank aan Anneke komt ie er dan toch, zij het enigszins verlaat ☹. Too little, too late, is (ook) een titelsong, maar dat is niet waar wat mij betreft de titel […]

Soundbyte 236: Game of Life

What an utterly interesting time to be alive. We all remember how Deep Blue defeated Kasparov. Chess became a ‘solved problem’ pretty soon after that historic event. And in the past week, we have witnessed an even more amazing feat: AlphaGo beating world-class Go player Lee Sedol. The game that knows more positions than there […]

Luminis contributes to advanced racing simulator

Arnhem, March 14th 2016 — Luminis, in cooperation with Reiza Studios and Image Space Incorporated, developed the software that powers Adrenaline Control‘s latest racing simulator. Situated next to the airforce base in the Gate2 Aerospace and Maintenance building in the Ericssonstraat in Rijen, Adrenaline Control has converted a 360 degree “dome” with a diameter of 7 […]

Luminis supports World Champion Freediving Jeanine Grasmeijer

Apeldoorn, March 4th, 2016 – Software and technology company Luminis will start sponsoring Jeanine Grasmeijer (23), the Dutch World Champion Freediving. Luminis supports Jeanine in her efforts to defend her titles and improve her national records in freediving. In the next months, Jeanine will travel to Egypt and the Bahama’s on a quest to reach […]

Soundbyte 234: Learn to fly

Let’s start this Soundbyte with a bit of already old news for those of you not on Twitter. Together with Sander Mak I’m working on a new book for O’Reilly: “Java 9 Modularity”. The book is scheduled for early 2017, which is perfectly aligned with the Java 9 release date. Also a big thanks to […]

Soundbyte 233: The forward outpost

So by a happy coincidence I became the forward outpost in the USA for Luminis within the same week I got to write the Soundbyte. We should have arrived one month ago, but the visa was just recently approved and now I am finally here! No snow in The Sunshine State, but blue skies and […]

Soundbyte 232: La Grange

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Soundbyte 231: The River Sings

<Sorry, this post is only available in Dutch> Als je in buurt van Rotterdam woont of werkt, dan is deze nieuwe kreet bekend: ‘Bottleneck’ of ‘Botleknek’. T’is hoe maar hoe je er naar kijkt: Sinds de zomer van 2015 is er bij Rotterdam een nieuwe brug geopend, de Botlekbrug. De ‘bedoeling’ van deze brug is dat […]

Soundbyte 230: If You Want My Love

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Soundbyte 229: With a Little Help from My Friends

Soundbyte 229 : With a Little Help from My Friends On a gloomy Wednesday afternoon in november 2015, my wife and I were called by a friend of ours, with the announcement that she is deceased. Despite that we all saw this coming, you still feel a shock hearing the sad news. Man and 3 […]

Our second developers conference: Luminis DevCon 2016

Following their successful 2015 conference, Luminis is pleased to announce their second “for developers by developers” IT conference. Come and join us at this developers’ experience on April 19th 2016 at the CineMec Venue in Ede. Enjoy the art of software engineering!

Soundbyte 227: Blackstar

I woke today to the news of David Bowie’s death. It was announced in a short post on his facebook page that he died peacefully surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. Like many of his fans I found myself browsing through articles and listening to some of his songs, remembering […]

Soundbyte 226: Promised you a miracle

Holiday! Today it is the last day of a week of doing nothing, sleeping a lot and neglecting everything that is on my to-do list. As in most holidays I intent to do all the things I never get to normally and every time the holiday flies by and I end up doing nothing, but […]

Soundbyte 225: Iron Sky

I have been looking forward to this week for quite some time because I had hoped to be able to sit back and relax a bit. So far, I have had only partial success with that. Although I haven’t spent time working so far (apart from answering some emails and phone-calls), I found myself enjoying […]

Soundbyte 224: Merry Christmas, Baby

It’s just a few days to go until christmas and my christmas holiday actually already started. Last Friday we’ve had our Technologies christmas celebration. Since we’re a bunch of geeks we decided it should not be just dinner, but we should do something techie as well. I think Robin was quite right in his Soundbyte […]

Training Java EE 7 upgrade

Java EE has a greatly simplified programming model and it now has all the ingredients that make for a successful lightweight component based implementation. Java EE 7 continues down the path where Java EE 6 left off to further simplify the architecture by reducing its complexity from the developer’s point of view, while also adding […]

Training Modular Java Development using OSGi

Java is an awesome platform and probably the best choice for any kind of enterprise (web) application today. But how do you design a system that can evolve for many years in production? And how do we run such systems in the cloud? This course teaches you how to benefit from a modular programming model […]

Soundbyte 223: Cyborg christmas dinner

Spoiler alert Deze soundbyte bevat geen grote verhalen over business ontwikkelingen.Deze soundbyte loopt niet over van strategie.Deze soundbyte leert je niets over de nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van webtechnologie. Kerstdiner Ieder jaar is het kerstdiner van Luminis Arnhem een mooi feest, zoals dat vast van alle andere kernen ook zo zal zijn. Een mooie […]

Soundbyte 222: cultuur

Bij deze mijn bijdrage aan de soundbyte, te laat, veel te laat (ja ik ga mijn leven beteren! )…. Ik heb mijn inspiratie voor deze keer gekregen uit een blog die een vriend heeft geschreven. Bij deze, Bill dank je wel voor het idee! Bedrijfscultuur De meesten van ons denken niet aan het belang van […]

Soundbyte 221: Too young to say goodbye

Another week gone by, and we’re still dealing with the aftermath of the Paris attacks. Yet another crisis, stacked on top of the European migrant crisis. First France, then Belgium effectively under martial law. A lot can happen in a few weeks. Inevitably, all these crises lead to calls for stronger leadership. However, the past […]

Soundbyte 217: Rage Against the Machine

I’m writing this soundbyte sitting in the sunshine at “Duke’s Cafe”, the outdoor hangout space at JavaOne (yup, that’s where the beer is). Before anything else, let’s start some music. Each year there are some cool bands playing at JavaOne/OpenWorld. We’ve had bands such as Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, Aerosmith, so expectations for this […]

Soundbyte 214: Rotterdam

Aan het einde van deze zonnige zondag is het een goed moment om eens terug te kijken op de afgelopen periode en daarbij natuurlijk de toekomst niet te vergeten. Waarom is het terugkijken op dit moment zo’n goed idee zullen sommige lezers zich afvragen, het is tenslotte nog geen ’31 december’… Wel: afgelopen donderdag hebben […]

Soundbyte 212: Change

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Soundbyte 211: Outside-In

Inmiddels is het 20 september, zomervakantie voorbij, scholen begonnen en het gezin- en werkritme is weer op een ‘normaal’ tempo. Natuurlijk geniet ik net zoals iedereen van het mooie weer en de zomervakantie. Na een paar dagen omschakel tijd vind ik het stiekem heel leuk weer aan de slag te zijn en de cadans gevonden […]

Global Day of Coderetreat 2015 at Luminis Arnhem

November 14, 2015, is this year’s Global Day of Coderetreat. This is a day for us, as developers, to hone our skills, share knowledge, and honor the craft of software engineering. Luminis Arnhem will facilitate a code retreat at our offices in Arnhem. We will provide you with both the facilities and the necessary guidance […]

Soundbyte 210: Just a Flow

Zondagavond, even terugkijken op de week. Uitrekseldiskette Het nieuws over Joost Zwagerman kan niemand zijn ontgaan. Nu ben ik bekend met zijn bevlogen en energieke ‘kunstcolleges’ in DWDD, maar denk niet dat ik ooit een boek van ‘m heb gelezen. Mijn interesse in Nederlandse literatuur is een plichtmatige uit mijn middelbareschooltijd. Zijn romans Vals […]

Training: Building modern web applications

In the course Building modern web applications, you will learn Angular, Typescript and RequireJS. You will also learn how to use these three technologies together to write some modern, object oriented and really well structured single page applications. Program When you are doing front-end web development, three technologies are currently very hot! On top of […]

Brain Upgrade: Data Insight

The digital era of continuous change, innovation and data overflow, impacts the essence of our decision making process. What is the meaning of search related to decision making? How does explorative data analysis and data visualization effectuate our insight learning curve? Why should knowledge workers take the question as starting point? Periodically a Luminis Brain […]

Soundbyte 209: Willin’ to learn

The most fun part of getting older is that your experiences allows you to see the lessons you’ve learned years ago in a total different perspective. I find it exhilarating when I remember wise words from a teacher or friend years after the fact in another context. When it allows me to perceive a situation […]

Soundbyte 208: Reflections

One of the things I value most about working for Luminis Technologies is the opportunity to get to know people living in different countries. I was the first non dutch employee to join LT a little more than a year ago. Since then the group has expanded to include Thomas and Marc (Germany) and Marian and […]

Soundbyte 207: I want to break free

A while ago Joyce and Jago hosted a BBQ for the whole Luminis Technologies crew and during that event Joyce and I started discussing our soundbytes. She thought it might be a nice idea to write one herself, so I was thrilled to get an e-mail a few days ago with her first contribution. I […]

Container Camp London: Docker network performance

Luminis’ Arjan Schaaf is going to present about Docker network performance in the public cloud at Container Camp Londen. Arjan has been developing modular and web applications using Java, OSGi and Groovy for years as a software engineer and architect. As a DevOps architect, Arjan has shift his focus to bringing development, operations and business […]

Soundbyte 206: Zo veel te doen

Deze Soundbyte is geïnspireerd door een oudje van ‘Toontje Lager’. Want afgelopen weekend was het weer zo ver. Een overvol weekend van zaterdagochtend tot zondagavond. En dat pas een week na onze zomervakantie. Vandaar ook deze ‘verlate’ Soundbyte. Het begon zaterdagochtend niet al te vroeg. Kwart over zeven ging de wekker en na douchen en […]

Soundbyte 205: Somewhere Else

De speld had het een aantal weken geleden helemaal bij het rechte eind: het is een kutzomer wanneer meer dan 5 dagen achter elkaar door voldoende mensen deze uitspraak wordt gedaan (hetgeen al waar is zo lang er officieel aan het weer gemeten wordt). Want wat een weer is het dit weekend geweest. We hadden […]

Soundbyte 204: High Hopes

When Anneke reminded me again today that I had forgotten to write a soundbyte this weekend, I immediately realised I wanted to write about the reason I had completely forgotten about writing it in the first place. But not before I have introduced this week’s musical background. Sometimes I listen to different numbers for hours […]

Soundbyte 203: Road trippin’

Lekker hoor, de eerste collegae keren alweer terug van vakantie en ik mag nog.. Wanneer begint je vakantie? Wij vertrekken meestal ’s-nachts. Een oude gewoonte nog. Toen onze kinderen klein waren en we met de auto op vakantie gingen, sliepen ze een groot deel van de reis. Wel zo rustig. Ze vroegen dan niet onophoudelijk […]

Soundbyte 202: Time of your life!

Met 1.5 miljoen bezoekers is gister de 99e Vierdaagse van Nijmegen afgesloten. Een week lang prachtig weer en vandaag storten de weergoden hun ingehouden tranen ineens over “mijn” oude stad. In deze zomerse Soundbyte wil ik graag stilstaan bij onze bedrijfscultuur die ontegenzeggelijk zijn oorsprong vindt bij BSO. Je weet wel dat bedrijf waar 40 […]

Soundbyte 201: De vogel is bevlogen

Nee, inderdaad be-vlogen en niet: ‘ge-vlogen’, al geldt dat voor mij wel want ik ben op dit moment in Spanje! De titel schoot me te binnen nadat we laatst met een aantal mensen weer eens een ‘Smaakmakersbijeenkomst’ hadden. Dit doen we een paar keer per jaar met wisselende samenstelling en wisselende onderwerpen. Vooral om eens […]

Smart Systems Conference

‘s Hertogenbosch, October 1st 2015: Luminis and Thales will present their vision on evolving high-tech systems as exhibitor and speaker during the second edition of “Bits&Chips Smart Systems.” This one day conference is aimed at professionals who deal with smart information systems. The Thales / Luminis booth contains a live demonstration of an resilient software […]

Soundbyte 200: Common Ground

Our industry gives the impression it is innovating at a furious pace. Take the web: we have WebAssembly coming up, ES6 (the next JavaScript) has finally been released and the Web Components spec is coming out of the draft phase. The list goes on and on. Another example: micro-services and containerisation. Docker, Rocket, Kubernetes, Project […]

Brain Upgrade: Angular 2.0

Since first seeing light in 2009, AngularJS has quickly established itself as a dominant force in the world of front end development. As developers we have to respect the massive rise in adaptation it has seen in the past years in both small open source and large corporate projects. Now the team behind AngularJS has […]

Soundbyte 198: Wreck-It Ralph

The holiday season is approaching rapidly. Another week and then the exodus to the South of EuropeÂ starts for us. For me this is the time to think about the in-car entertainment (3 children have to sit still for 12 hours and I can assure you, that is quite a challenge for them). Fortunately, we have […]

Soundbyte 195: It’s a beautiful day

After a few busy weeks with preparing our new house and actually moving there, this weekend we finally had the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful weather. So I started the Sunday with a nice ride on the mountainbike. Iâ€™m quite lucky in Deventer we have some nice trails. Finally I could ride my 29â€ carbon […]

Mooi resultaat na ‘n dag Experiment Day! “@eRJe:…

Mooi resultaat na ‘n dag Experiment Day! “@eRJe: De gebouwde robots van deze avond #LED15 http://t.co/2HK1yPGYQc”

Geweldige golfshow van Joost Hage #luminis #golfda…

Geweldige golfshow van Joost Hage #luminis #golfdag #LOGO5 http://t.co/ouMxXex5V8

Training Modular Software Development using OSGi

Soundbyte 193: Someday…

Zo… Het is zondagmiddag en ik zit rustig na te genieten van een heerlijk avondje Friesland, waar we bij familie hebben overnacht na een gezellige avond de tijd te hebben doorgebracht met een copieuze maaltijd die werd begeleid door een heerlijke selectie wijnen en een groot aantal oh’s, ah’s en lachsalvo’s. Alleen al aan de […]

Soundbyte 192: Keep Talking

In de afgelopen week hebben we met z’n allen weer ‘teruggekeken’: 4 & 5 mei zijn van die dagen waar wordt teruggekeken. En nu het 70 jaar geleden is dat de 2e wereldoorlog eindigde, was het weer een moment van extra aandacht. Zo kwam bij mij in het dorp een hele ‘bevrijdingsoptocht‘ aan met allerlei […]

Heb jij de aftermovie van #Luminis #DevCon15 al be…

Heb jij de aftermovie van #Luminis #DevCon15 al bekeken? youtube.com/watch?v=zU-A1iâ€¦

Soundbyte 191: word wie je bent

Dit is mijn eerste soundbyte voor Luminis. Afgelopen vrijdag was ik al begonnen met nadenken over de onderwerpen en wat ik allemaal zou kunnen vertellen… en het laat zich raden, de spreekwoordelijke schrik sloeg me om het hart en het vel papier bleef zo leeg als het maar kon, normaal ben ik niet snel sprakeloos […]

A successful Luminis DevCon 2015

On April 23th, 2015, Luminis has organized its first IT conference: Luminis DevCon. More than 370 visitors joined this conference at the CineMec Venue in Ede. Luminis showed their expertise and software engineering skills. More than 20 professionals shared their IT knowledge and experience during various parallel sessions. More pictures: Luminis Google + Videos presentations

Soundbyte 190: Mr. G.B.J. Hiltermann

Ik verwacht niet dat velen van jullie hem kennen, Mr. G.B.J. Hiltermann. Voor mij was hij de stem in mijn jeugd van ‘De toestand in de wereld’. Dat was een wekelijks radioprogramma op de zondagmiddag vanaf 1956, waar mijn ouders steevast naar luisterden. Het was eigenlijk een column. In het hedendaagse social media tijdperk zou […]

Soundbyte 189: A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing

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Soundbyte 187: Corner of the Earth

Because of the Easter Holiday, this soundbyte is delivered one day later than normal, on Monday evening. It’s springtime, a time my dog seems to enjoy the most as the forests and dunes seem to provide an almost infinite playground for her to run, chase other dogs and in general have a great time chasing […]

BrainUpgrade: Design Patterns

Design Patterns; They are a solution for every software design problem you face.. Or aren’t they? In this session we will have a look at what these patterns are and how they are categorized. After this introduction we will review examples of these patterns and cover patterns from each category. Al of these examples will […]

En hoe kunnen we beter starten dan met een gezamen…

En hoe kunnen we beter starten dan met een gezamenlijk (vervroegd Paas-)ontbijt? #verhuisd #Luminis http://t.co/F9NfBt0PJh

Wat ‘n topdag! Vandaag is ons NIEUWE pand officiee…

Wat ‘n topdag! Vandaag is ons NIEUWE pand officieel geopend door onze NIEUWE chef @jeroenwerner! #freshness #Luminis http://t.co/iuvWfNOT3w

Soundbyte 186 – Different shades of blue

Don’t worry about the title, this Soundbyte has nothing to do with fiftyÂ shades of anything. It has everything to do with great blues music however. “Different Shades of Blue” is the latest album by Joe Bonamassa, which Bert Ertman and me went to see live a week ago. Coming back to the familiar topic of […]

Soundbyte 185: Oude Maasweg

Keek op de week Het is lente, we hebben gekozen voor water, wat is de menselijke maat? de Zorgtotaalbeurs en de kracht van maatwerk. ‘Dokter, straks is het weer lente, als u begrijpt, wat dat ik bedoel’, zong Huub van der Lubbe in ‘Groot hart’. Welnu: het is weer zover. Het laatste beetje wintermoeheid schudden […]

Soundbyte 184: Don’t stop me now…

Het is alweer zondagavond. Mijn voorbereidingen voor de gemeenteraad volgende week zijn gedaan, blijft over de soundbyte. Na ruim een half jaar was het weer tijd voor een nieuw project. In mijn laatste project heb ik met Java 8 gewerkt en ik moet zeggen dat ik erg onder de indruk ben van Java 8 Lambda’s […]

Soundbyte 183: The way

It’s been a rough and emotional week for me. We’re finally getting settled in our new apartment which is a few kilometres away from our old one, a bit more to the center of Tel Aviv. Moving day was Sunday a week ago and everything seemed to be going well at first. We brought our […]

Luminis organizes technical conference on April 23th

On April 23th, 2015, Luminis organises a technical conference, Luminis DevCon, at the CineMec Venue in Ede. Luminis will show their expertise and software engineering skills during this conference. More than 20 professionals share their IT knowledge and experience during various parallel sessions. Keynote speaker James Governor, a well known name in the world ofÂ software engineering, […]

Webinar Persuasive Marketing: What you need (to do)

This webinar is in dutch, therefore the content for the invite is also in dutch.Â Hoe beÃ¯nvloedbaar ben jij? En hoe past je de juiste strategieÃ«n toe om jouw klanten te verleiden om vaker langs te komen, meer te kopen of met anderen over jouw merk of organisatie te laten praten? OpÂ woensdag 18 maart, om […]

Soundbyte 182: Hungry

This Soundbyte is only available in Dutch… De afgelopen week was natuurlijk vooral de week van de Luminis Devcon. Althans, de aankondiging daarvan. De voorbereidingen daarvan waren vanzelfsprekend al veel langer aan de gang, maar vorige week was de aankondiging dan een feit: voor het eerst in haar bestaan, organiseert Luminis zelf een eendaagse conferentie […]

Soundbyte 181: Fever to the Form

This Soundbyte is only available in Dutch Het lijkt wel alsof ik altijd voor het schrijven van een soundbyte vakantie heb. Dan valt er minder over het werk te vertellen, dus even nadenken. Hoewel, als je niet duidelijk zegt dat je vakantie hebt word je natuurlijk gebeld over allerlei lopende- en nieuwe opdrachten. Geen probleem […]

Soundbyte 180: Slice of time

Time. One of the grandest illusions of the universe. And yet it leads us all to believe that another week has started. In other words: time for a soundbyte! This week featuring ‘Slice of time’ by David Crosby. It’s from the album Croz, which contains some great and timeless songwriting. “My teacher said time […]

Soundbyte 178: Don’t be afraid

This Soundbyte is only available in Dutch. Tja, ik wist niet dat mijn titel voor deze soundbyte, “Don’t be afraid”, zo’n dubbele lading zou krijgen met het nieuws van de afgelopen week. Gelukkig geen Franse taferelen, maar afgelopen donderdag waren er toch verschillende NOS medewerkers die bang zijn geweest. In deze soundbyte daarom aandacht voor […]

BrainUpgrade Modern Threading: Java vs .Net

Threading is known to be one of the hardest subjects when writing programs. Whether we are talking about parallel programming or asynchronous programming, which need to synchronize back to the UI thread, it always come with a lot of difficulties. Â In the last couple of years the two biggest technology stacks (Java and .Net)Â have […]

Soundbyte 175: Simplicity

While relaxing on the couch and half watching the speed skating on television I momentarily feel like Youp van het Hek (a dutch comedian and columnist) who feels the deadline for his column getting closer. My thoughts immediately go out to the horrible events in France where cartoonists of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had […]

Soundbyte 173: Uptown Funk

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Soundbyte 172: Ode to my Family Man

This Soundbyte is only available in Dutch. In deze week voor kerst zijn de meeste mensen er mee bezig: familie. Bij de een worden de kerstdagen beleefd als een soort familie, bij de ander roept dat juist wat aversie op om ‘aan de regeltjes te voldoen’ en ‘gezellig’ (lees ‘verplicht’) bij die en gene langs […]

Soundbyte 171: Land of Confusion

This Soundbyte is only available in Dutch. De wereld staat niet stil Het einde van 2014 is in zicht, de laatste eindsprints zijn in gang gezet en het aftellen is bij sommigen al duidelijk te horen. Pepernoten en marsepein zijn inmiddels vervangen door kerstkransjes en we hoeven ons even niet druk te maken over de […]

Innovation through knowledge sharing. Collaboratio…

Innovation through knowledge sharing. Collaboration between Luminis and @coenmt: coe-nmt.eu/luminis-coe-loâ€¦

Training: Java EE 7 Upgrade

Are you an experienced Java developer and do you want to know more about the latest Java EE APIs to develop transactional business applications?Â Luminis will organize a four day training Java EE 7 Upgrade on MarchÂ 2, 3, 4 and 5. Java EE has a greatly simplified programming model and it now has all the ingredients […]

Soundbyte 170: Something from Nothing

The end of the year is approaching, which means it’s time to look back and, more importantly, ahead. Earlier this month, the Foo Fighters released their 8th studio album called ‘Sonic Highways’. At the same time, a documentary aired with the same name, where the band visits different cities and explores their music cultures that […]

Soundbyte 169: Stout

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Soundbyte 168: Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime

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Luminis at inspiration session “Excellente Toppers”

November 21st 2014, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Marcel Veening will present at inspiration session “Excellente Toppers”. The Centre of Excellence for New Media Technologies (CoE) and the Digitale Steden Agenda are organizing an inspiration session regarding the existing shortage of qualified personnel on the Dutch ICT labour market. During the workshop, Marcel Veening focuses on personalization in […]

#BigData is not just about making fancy business intelligence reports….

#BigData is not just about making fancy business intelligence reports. Find @Sander_Mak’s #whitepaper and more at http://www.luminis.eu/expertise/white-papers-en/ Follow: @LuminisArnhem

Luminis at @GFHEU 2014. Our keynote speaker will t…

Luminis at @GFHEU 2014. Our keynote speaker will talk about immersive technology applied in health care education luminis.eu/blog/luminis-pâ€¦

Luminis present at Games for Health Europe Conference 2014

Luminis will be present at the conference Games for Health at 27 and 28 October 2014. Our keynote speaker Hans Bossenbroek will talk about immersive technology applied in health care education. In his presentation, Hans will elaborate on the possibilities and challenges that are inherently part of open and user-led approaches to innovation using the […]

Soundbyte 164: Livin’ on the Edge

The past few weeks have pretty pretty intense with traveling. A nice holiday in Tunisia was followed directly by JavaOne and JDD Krakow which was last week. Although JavaOne is a few weeks back already, I’m still processing it and most of this post will be reflections on the conference. Aerosmith was playing at JavaOne […]

OSGi in one day- Bucharest

On November 21st, 2014, the Bucharest JUG, together with Luminis Technologies and Thales Romania teamed up to organize an ‘OSGi in One Day’ event in Bucharest, Romania. The event takes place at Thales, Sema Parc, River View House, Splaiul IndependenÈ›ei 319, Bucharest. The main goal is to introduce more people to the OSGi technology and […]

Global Day of Coderetreat 2014, November 15 at Luminis Arnhem

November 15, 2014, is this year’s Global Day of Coderetreat. This is a day for us, as developers, to hone our skills, share knowledge, and honor the craft of software engineering. Luminis Arnhem will facilitate a code retreat at our offices in Arnhem. We will provide you with both the facilities and the necessary guidance […]

Luminis Brain Upgrade: XML

On Wednesday evening October 29th 2014, Luminis Arnhem organizes a knowledge session where all the ins and outs regarding XML will be discussed. In this session we will explore all the dark corners and caveats of XML, XSD and even a little bit of XPath. Every developer has to deal with it sooner or later: […]

Vandaag verwelkomen wij bij @LuminisApeldoor nieuw…

Vandaag verwelkomen wij bij @LuminisApeldoor nieuwe collega en #Java Craftsman Herbert Schuurmans! Welkom bij de club Herbert! #Luminis

Morgen op de agenda, de @LuminisApeldoor Experimen…

Morgen op de agenda, de @LuminisApeldoor Experiment Day! #Luminis Innovatie, het verleggen van grenzen & het doen en maken van #coolstuff.

Onze collega’s spreken op #JavaOne in #SanFrancisc…

Onze collega’s spreken op #JavaOne in #SanFrancisco. Lees meer in de Soundbyte van deze week, door @BertBreeman : luminis.eu/nl/soundbytes-â€¦ ^DN

SYCOMM: Luminis and AET in business in the field of digital security in the enterprise

AET (A.E.T. Europe B.V.) and Luminis have announced the launch of a joint venture, which focuses on enterprise digital security from April 2014. This joint venture, called SYCOMM (Secure Your Community), is the result of an ongoing cooperation between AET and Luminis. SYCOMM delivers solutions for a secure digital business environment for its customers and […]

Soundbyte 159: The Miracle

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Soundbyte 156: Street Spirit

Street Spirit This week another classic song with a twist. I hope you’ve hit play by now. One of the most beautiful songs and video clips, Street Spirit by Radiohead, with images that are dramatically filmed and lit and a melody that is very pleasing to the ear. At the same time, the song is […]

Training: Java 8 on 10 and 11 November 2014

Luminis is proud to present: Training course Java 8 given by the masters in this field,Â Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma from the UK. Are you a Java developer and do you want to know more about the latest release of Java, Java 8? Luminis will organize a 2 day training course on November 10th and […]

Soundbyte 150: Cloudy with a chance of data

Recently I found a fun analysis that compared the vocabulary of Shakespeare with modern day hip-hop artists. While my musical taste shifted towards ‘lots of guitars’ and away from hip-hop somewhere during high school (yes that was my thing for a while), the data is quite interesting. It shows that some of the hip-hop artist […]

Soundbyte 141: Three feet high and rising

Again, I’m starting this soundbyte with the sound, and I think I’m going to surprise most of you with my choice this week. From their debut album “Three feet high and rising” this is De La Soul’s “Jenifa Taught Me”. Why? Because at the time, this was a fresh new style, different from what most […]

Training: Modular Java Development

Are you a Java Developer or Software Architect and do you want to know more about Modular Java Development? Luminis will organize a three day training on June 2, 3 and 4 about this fascinating subject. Topics that will be covered are: Course introduction: Why modularity is important, Runtime modularity Â introduction OSGi Basics: Creating Bundles, Imports / exports, Activators, […]

Soundbyte 138: Downtown Denver

When Hans asked me earlier this week to take over the SoundByte from him, naturally I accepted. As always, I will start by selecting the music. This time a classic by Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb. This song needs no further introduction, I hope. Time after time, when I put it on, I’m struck by its […]

Congratulations Luminis with your 12th Anniversary

On April 1st, 2002, Luminis was founded after many sessions around the kitchen table. Everybody got an annual subscription for Burgers Zoo, which was promoted to be our office. In the mean time, Luminis has grown to become a company consisting of many different cores. 12 years ago, Luminis started as Luminis Software Development in […]

Soundbyte 135: Being the best

Looking through the new strategy document, or booklet that is, I found one of the pages to be brilliant. It’s the page with a photo of Lebron James, one of the best NBA players ever. “Our Goal is to be the best at what we choose to do, and to be famous for it” says […]

Dutch Android Open Space @ Luminis

The Dutch Open Space for Android professionals will take place on Tuesday 25 February 2014 at Luminis Arnhem. The foundation Dutch Android User Group (DutchAUG) organizes meetups where Android professionals can meet and connect with each other. It is an open and interactive meeting aiming to discuss and find solutions for the interesting topics. Latest […]

Soundbyte 126: It rocked!

At the beginning of a new year, it’s good to briefly reflect on the past year, and I can only agree with Hans’ sentiment last week and tell you: It rocked! For me personally, this is summarized best with the following concert: So, turn up the volume, pour yourself a glass of wine, sit back […]

Soundbyte 125: Beautiful

Great! I’m seriously starting to get the feeling that 2013 is over and that’s just as well on December 30th 😉 There is, to this day, no sign of a White Christmas or any other form of winter precipitation and because of that I am watching a rainy garden while the sun is heating the […]

Soundbyte 113: #JavaOne

Every week, usually on Sunday evening, one of us writes a soundbyte about some personal experience, news, or anything else that might have happened that week that is noteworthy. Sometimes however, something happens that warrants an extra soundbyte, and this week has been such an occasion. Back in time A JavaOne conference is always something […]

Soundbyte 109: The Pretender

Writing a new soundbyte is one of the many fun things I do at Luminis. On Sunday evening I sit down with a good glass of wine. The first thing I do is pick a song. After celebrating my 42nd birthday on Saturday and being gifted a pre-order for the new Pearl Jam album, it […]

Soundbyte 96: Fade to black

Before we really get into the SoundByte, first some music. This SoundByte I donâ€™t have some kind of link to the rest of the article, but itâ€™s good music anyway. Recently I decided to take training (in the gym) to a next level and that means plenty of time in the gym listening to music […]

Soundbyte 82: Scaling Craft

Crazy Mary Today’s soundbyte can only feature a song by my favorite band and although my first urge is always to pick about five great songs, I will stick with one called “Crazy Mary”. It should get you in the right mood for the rest of this story. About a week ago, Hans and I […]

Soundbyte 62: San Francisco

Good morning sounds the most appropriate, as I’m sitting in my hotel room on Sunday evening. The nine hours time difference means that you’re enjoying your breakfast when this gets published. After arriving yesterday and hooking up with my friends, we had some excellent Chinese food in Chinatown in a place with an excellent view. […]

Soundbyte 48: X

Ten years of Luminis calls for a tribute to people who believe in something with a passion that inspires! Luckily, there are many examples on this planet. Luckily, I get to pick some today! So before you read on, max out the volume, pour yourself a drink and listen to a Neil Young classic, performed […]

Soundbyte 36: Looking forward

I love it. A great Sunday evening after a pleasant spring weekend. A saturday well spent in the garden, pruning the espaliers, followed by a Sunday which mainly consisted of cleaning up the mess, delicious cups of coffee and sit back watching the drizzle under a watery spring sunshine. In short: it’s March, but in […]

Soundbyte 30: FOSDEM stories

The boss of the University Libre de Bruxelles opened this edition of FOSDEM by looking back at its 12 year history, concluding that nowadays, open source is everywhere, so either the whole world is now smoking marihuana, or there is actually more to it! On the way back from Brussels we brainstormed a bit about […]

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