Alain M. Lafon
Hack4Glarus is the first hackathon of Glarus. Hack4Glarus is hosted by our partner company ungleich glarus ag. This will be the fifth incarnation and it will be on the weekend from 2019-11-29 until 2019-12-01. We from 200ok will be there as well - as are our friends from the Insopor Zen Academy....
Phil Hofmann, Alain M. Lafon
In an collaborative effort with OpnTec and FossAsia, 200ok GmbH has just open sourced all of the code of the professional live audio streaming and archiving of events platform voicerepublic.com under the GPL license. The project was originally created in a funded company in which Phil and Alain...
Alain M. Lafon
Excited to see that our good friends from Livingdocs are on the shortlist for the Best of Swiss Web Awards with their project for Swisscom TV where 200ok has been involved with since the end of 2017. You can read the whitepaper here: https://livingdocs.io/swisscom-whitepaper-5924 Livingdocs is a...
Alain M. Lafon
Hack4Glarus is the first hackathon of Glarus. Hack4Glarus is hosted by our partner company ungleich glarus ag. This will be the third incarnation and it will be on the weekend from 2018-11-30 until 2018-12-02. We from 200ok will be there as well - as are our friends from the Insopor Zen Academy....
Alain M. Lafon
At 200ok, we automate all of the repetitive Admin tasks like invoicing, bookkeeping, payroll and tracking time to customer systems. Those specific four tasks are all based on the time that we spend working. Everyone at 200ok tracks time with their favorite tool, but then exports it in a...
Alain M. Lafon
Swiss Crowdfunder is an OSS crowd funding and equity funding platform which we are building together with ungleich. We just released version 1.1 which now features translatable user generated content. This is another unique selling proposition of Swiss Crowdfunder compared to other platforms - you...
Alain M. Lafon
Combining sourceme with tmux is a small workflow improvement which I like to use when running 'complicated' dev setups. By 'complicated" I mean setups where you need multiple terminals to start multiple things. Let me give you an arbitrary example to give you a sense of what kinds of situations...
Alain M. Lafon
We are very happy to announce our newest team member, Carl Düvel! Carl has studied computer science with Alain in Stuttgart. Apart from that, Carl and Alain already started working together professionally on their first serious startup MVP close to 10 years ago. It's a great pleasure that he's...
Alain M. lafon
This is a talk Alain gave at the Web Zueri Meetup in Zurich, Switzerland on July 24, 2018. The complexity of software is growing at an exponential rate. The biggest challenge is the growing complexity of dynamic state which makes it hard to reason about a system. There are many paradigms aiming to...
Alain M. Lafon
Lean back and relax while enjoying a deep dive into the wonderful world of the Emacs editor. Emacs renaissance came with the advent of Clojure and undoubtedly is the most popular editor among Clojurians today. Of course there is a lot more you can do with Emacs, but much like playing an...
Alain M. Lafon
During the 3 day Hack4glarus Hackathon, we had the pleasure to do an interview with the newspaper Südostschweiz. This is a copy of the German article (Südostschweiz (PDF), Südostschweiz (Web)). Computerfreaks tüfteln für das digitale Wohl der Glarner Zum ersten Mal hat an diesem Wochenende in...
Alain M. Lafon
As part of our ongoing effort in giving back to the open source community, we are happy to announce that we just released our newest product - Swiss Crowdfunder - as open source community edition. Why did we do it? Crowdfunding using established platforms can be very expensive. Usually, there is a...
Alain M. Lafon
Hack4Glarus(https://hack4glarus.ch/) is the first hackathon of Glarus. It is your chance to meet & hack with geniuses of Switzerland. It is all about technology and fun. This event is hosted at a great location (same as the launch of swiss-crowdfunder.com and is hosted by our friends from...
Alain M. Lafon
We just released our newest product: Swiss Crowdfunder Swiss Crowdfunder is a joint product that we built together with our good friends from ungleich glarus ag. As the name implies it is a crowdfunding platform, but with a twist! Whereas traditional crowdfunding campaign supporters will only...