CodEagle

On the first of april the first Devnology CodeFest took place. An interesting group of 16 enthousiastic developers gathered at the Sogyo farm to make an implementation of the Game of Life, the famous cellulair automaton, devised by Conway.

My goal for that night was to make an implementation of the Game of Life in Python and to host this in the Google AppEngine. A nice challenge, since my knowledge of Python did not go much further than that it is a whitespace-significant scripting language that prominently feautures the keyword def and that the language is developed by Guido van Rossom. Oh and of course that the language has now been quite popular for a few years at Google, probably not completely coincidentally about the same period of time that Guido has been working there. read more…

In this post I will give my answer to the question where innovation takes place: in big or in smaller (ict-) companies? An all-or-nothing answer doesn’t seem feasible to me, because we all know examples of big as well as smaller companies that are innovative. But I still think it might be interesting enough to write a blog post about (of course), because I think some differentiation can be made. read more…