Hi! Thanks for checking out the ACA blog website and this blog post in particular. Let me cut right to the chase: we need your help. We’ve been blogging for quite a while now. Our very first post dates back to March 2013! In the last year, we’ve tried to be more consistent in posting blog posts and post one every week. [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Extending the DDM modules in Liferay with custom field types isn’t that easy. This blog post is the result of our attempts to do it. The first part recaps what DDM actually means and where you use it. After that, we show you an example of a flexible custom DDM field type that we created. Finally, the last part of this blog gives [...]
Peter Mesotten
There are only a few days left until the GDPR goes into effect and an alarming amount of people are panicking and wondering how they can save their marketing and sales from it. But why does everyone feel like that, when in fact, the GDPR is actually saving them? The main reason why everyone is panicking is obscurity. The biggest downside [...]
Dorien Jorissen
ACA does a lot of projects. In the last quarter of 2017, we did a rather small project for a customer in the financial industry. The deadline for the project was at the end of November and our customer was getting anxious near the end of September. We were confident we could pull off the job on time though and decided to try out an [...]
Koen Wellens
Last week ACA IT-Solutions teamed up with SalesCre8 and joined the Innovation Safari Automotive Hackathon. This hackathon was organized at the German Remarketing Congress in Würzburg, Germany. The goal of the hackathon was to find and work out an innovative and customer-oriented idea within the automotive industry. After 24 hours, the [...]
Yakup Kalin
Designing for the IT sector A select group of people nowadays still tends to think that being a designer is just about “pushing pixels”: making stuff look pretty. Add some unicorns covered in pixie dust and everything is going to be alright. Of course, as designers we need to have this skillset, but we also need to have a critical look [...]
Gert Bangels
On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things integration in Liferay. After a fruitful brainstorm, we decided to use Philips Hue. Another couple of brainstorms later, we formed the actual idea. [...]
Koen Olaerts
A couple of weeks ago at Liferay Devcon in Amsterdam, Liferay unveiled their plans concerning their next release for the first time. The most striking developments in Liferay 7.1 are a total revamp of the CMS and the way pages are composed, a full-fledged set of e-commerce modules and interesting expansions to the forms engine. This [...]
Peter Mesotten
2017, the year that ACA IT-Solutions organized its very first Ship-it Day. Several teams participated in the 24-hour long hackathon and came up with great ideas and results. The Ship-it Day is a day in which employees are allowed to work on ideas of their own, in order to stimulate bottom-up innovation in the company. Employees had the [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Dear Roadmap, We have been together for years. We started off great. Full of ideas, young, flexible and in love. We wanted to do so much, in so little time. These feelings, however, are no more. I am writing you this letter because I am struggling. I feel frustrated and disappointed. I’d rather keep you in the closet than take you [...]
Pieter Hens
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