Robocode

A week or two ago we started with some Componence colleagues with Robocode. Robocode is a game where robots fight each other. The can shoot, scan for other robots, drive, etc. The funny thing about Robocode is that you program your own robot in java. And you can start out really easy, with the absolute minimum [...]

National Jamboree

From July 21 until 30 I am going to the National Jamboree (NJ) with my Scouts (Boy and Girls Scouts from Scouting Boxtel). A jamboree is a big international Scouting camp. A lot of countries organise one each four yours. Also each four years a World Jamboree is organised. The jamboree I am going to is organised [...]

Single mobile calendar sucks

We moved to Exchange with all our mail accounts, calendars, etc in the Componence office. The main goal is to have one integrated solution (before we used thunderbird, outlook, gmail, intranet calendar, outlook calendar, etc) that’s also available on mobile.
And for mail… it works. It syncs very nice with my mobile (HP iPaq hw6915). I can [...]

Route on Kilimanjaro

This is our planned route to during our Kili climb:
day 1 Moshi -car- Londorossi park gate – Mti Mkubwa (Big Tree) 2795m via Chamber’s Route
day 2 Mti Mkubwa – Shira Caldera – Shira 1 Camp 3505m
day 3 Shira 1 Camp – Shira Plateau – Shira 2 Camp 3730m
day 4 Shira 2 Camp – pass Lava [...]

Wiki for documentation

The concept of Enterprise 2.0 is for a lot of people still difficult to grasp. The easiest way is by (keep on) giving examples. A nice example where Web 2.0 can be used in a business environment is the wiki.
Within Componence our product development isof course documenting Portletsuite. As a collaboration tool (our internal) wiki is [...]