Technological chauvinism

"Europe is far too dependent on Microsoft." I thought I accidentally clicked on an old article, perhaps from the end of the last century. At that time, Microsoft was in trouble for abusing its dominant market position to stave off competition. It was the start of a series of legal battles both in the States and in Europe, culminating in the Windows Media Player saga. You know, that thing you may have used to watch video on a pc, if you didn’t skip it entirely because you belong to the YouTube generation. Microsoft was fined a massive sum by Europe in 2004, but continued to resist strongly until 2012. In the end, they subsided. Or that is what we would like to believe.

5 ways to better manage DateTime in IoT solutions

Dates are always important, but in the context of IoT projects they are even more relevant. The reason for this is because IoT clients are mostly human-less terminals, machines with no understanding of time. For example, if a client application shows the end-user a wrong date, the user will sooner or later see the problem and correct it. Machines will never identify a date as being incorrect, so the problem can become endemic to your solution and go without notice for a long time.

Welcoming Alfred at Codit, our personal butler

As you might have noticed, a few months ago Codit Belgium moved to a new brand office in Zuiderpoort near the center of Ghent.Because of that, we've built an internal visitor system running on Azure.Keep on reading to learn all about it!

Logic Apps is not a fit for enterprise integration!

"Logic Apps is not a fit for real enterprise integration!". This is a statement I often heard throughout the last year. In this blog, I'll summarize the main reasons why people tend to make such statements. Even though their reasoning is completely true, I can't disagree more with their final conclusion.

Code Style: Formatting

When people talk about Code Style they refer to their Naming Conventions, Code Structure… but what they sometimes forget are the Formatting Guidelines. Something that’s not been taken serious enough in my opinion; but it’s one of the guidelines that I like very much to talk about.

Webinar Recap: Azure IPaaS - Integration Evolved

A couple of weeks ago we hosted a webinar on Logic Apps, BizTalk and the Enterprise Integration pack. This blogpost will give you a small recap and invite you to take the next steps in the Azure IPaaS platform.