We already established online marketing is a must for freelancers in part 1 of this miniseries, where we discussed marketing yourself through social media and your own website. Now it’s time to look at the role of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and email newsletters in marketing yourself online as a freelancer. Search Engine [...]
Stijn Schutyser
In this third monthly design review, we highlight the importance and benefits of creating a component style guide for your IT project(s). We supply a thorough explanation and use examples of our own implementations. What is a component style guide? A style guide is a form of documentation that conveys the visual language of a brand or a [...]
Gert Bangels
In our last blog post about GDPR, we looked at the state of GDPR 8 months after it went into effect. Today, we’ll look at what the content of the job of a Data Protection Officer exactly is. What could a Data Protection Officer (DPO) possibly do besides looking at implementation methods for a European regulation, or answer [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
Lots of freelancers hate having to call up people on the phone and asking if they’ve got any work for them. If only there was a way you could get work while sipping some coffee, taking the kids to school or even sleeping… You’re busy and the internet is a big place, so this blog post aims to help you do your online marketing well and [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Over the past few months, Kubernetes has become a more mature product and setting up a cluster has become a lot easier. Especially with the official release of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) on Amazon Web Services, another major cloud provider is able to provide a Kubernetes cluster with a few clicks. While the [...]
Bregt Coenen
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was without question one of the biggest stories of 2018. When the GDPR became enforceable in all European Union Member States on the 25th of May, it introduced quite a number of important changes that impacted organizations on processing the personal data of employees, customers, prospects, [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
As a freelancer, networking is pretty much inevitable. But it isn’t easy, and with corporate Christmas and New Year’s parties coming up, you’re bound to feel inclined to do some networking for some projects in the new year. Introverted people or people who think they’re no good at networking might have some difficulties, but conversely, [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Let’s start by asking how your product backlog is managed. How do items get on the backlog, and how do items get picked up from that backlog for development? Who does the former and who does the latter? In (software) product development, there usually are people with two important roles that divide these tasks between them. [...]
Pieter Hens
Time for our second monthly design review! Last time, Gert guided you through his design for the POI Service application for our client Lineas. This time we’ll look at something completely different: the design of a case study for the Museum pass project for our client publiq. First things first, what is a case study? Put simply, a case [...]
Ibn Renders
Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a well-known psychologist, wrote a book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow about behavioral economics. He discovered that the economy is not based on abstract mathematical and rational decisions, but rather on irrational decisions. In fact, he translates that into two systems in our brain. System 1 is the [...]
Pieter VD
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