Are you tired of developing one website after the other? Are you ready to take it up a notch? We’re looking for PHP developers at Appstrakt!

As a PHP developer for Appstrakt you will develop software for almost anything!

From small Facebook applications to huge REST API services or backend integrations.

Appstrakt has grown to be a trusted specialist for assisting clients like Spotify, Belgacom, KPN Group,… in the development and maintenance of their products.

Besides that we also develop several products/solutions of our own such as Geaver, Appmiral, mijnTVgids & Apptaché.

So do Symfony 2, Backbone, Vagrant, Git, UNIX, HTML, CSS3 & JavaScript make you feel all warm & fuzzy inside…

Then you’re the one we’re looking for!

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Want the job?

Drop us an email at work@appstrakt.be attached with your CV!

Koen Laenens (23) graduated in Interactive Communication and will take the lead in several Appstrakt-projects as Project/Product Manager. His previous work experience includes Digital Project Management for Boondoggle and Ogilvy.

Follow Koen: @koenlaenens

Sofie Mees (27) started on February 6^th as our very own Marketing & PR Manager. She’ll keep watch for whatever’s going on within the technology-business and implements her expertise in well-thought communication strategies for our brand(s) & products.

Follow Sofie: @sofiemees

VTM (Flemish Television Company) is the main commercial television station in Flanders, who asked Appstrakt to develop a one-stop application which reflects their brand & products. It’s a continuously growing project.

We are glad to announce that COMMON will be heading to California (Palo Alto) next week. We will take part in an ICT trade mission organized by our Flemish government. The focus of this mission is to introduce ourselves to California based tech companies and investors. Part of that we have developed a petite road show of our own to present our portfolio companies and some of the lab projects we are working on. We have some interesting meetings to look forward to!

The past 2 years have been a crazy roller coaster ride for the boys and girls [AT1] at Appstrakt, a subsidiary of COMMON Companies. Since they started at the end of 2009, the Antwerp based company established a staggering growth in both client base and revenue. Thanks to their multidisciplinary character and thorough understanding of today’s technologies, Appstrakt has managed to become a reference in the Belgian and European development scene in only a short space of time.

More in particular, Appstrakt has become a renowned developer of applications for mobile devices, web applications and complete back-end systems. Whether it concerns software running on your mobile, desktop or your gaming console, Appstrakt can build anything that needs to run on a digital device.

Appstrakt has evolved from a small development agency to a reliable, well-structured development partner. They work with local parties such as: Belgacom, Duval-Guillaume, Live Nation and have established relationships with internationally-active clients such as: KPN Group, Nokia, Boston Scientific, Harper Collins and Spotify. The young company has grown into a trusted specialist for assisting these clients in the development and maintenance of products that integrate seamlessly with their existing infrastructures. Moreover, they have also developed several products of their own.

After a few months of consolidation, optimizing the work-flow and strengthening the positioning of their services and company structure, Appstrakt is yet again ready for the next chapter.  

Appstrakt is glad to announce several job openings to back up the existing team and to support the future growth of the company.

Are you an Objective-C / Java / C# / C++ / PHP developer or are you interested in managing entire development processes as a project manager? Check out the current job openings on www.appstrakt.be.

Join the Appstrakt team and work in a stimulating environment with other COMMON Companies such as Cowboys & Indians, Appmiral and other interesting tech start-ups.

In this episode of PHP NW on Blip.tv, Scott MacVicar talks about pushing code to +500 million people 5 times a week.

10 people working on a single code base can be considered high, but what about 600 people? At Facebook, code is pushed 5 times a week to over 500 million people. The small amount of downtime is due to the practices of our engineering team and the process used to do a release. Scott’s talk is going to cover everything that goes into the development of a feature at Facebook and how that code is pushed. He will try to cover as much as possible about the underlying technology stack and the open source software they use and release to make it all happen.

Together with Duval Guillaume we created a desktop app (OS X and Windows) that integrates with your existing Dropbox account.

In 2011 the Alfa Romeo MiTo and Giulietta achieved both 5 stars on the Euro Safety Test. This maximum score of 5 stars makes them the safest cars in their class.Instead of making a temporary campaign about this achievement, we decided to develop something more permanent and useful: the Alfa Romeo Crash Proof Folder. A free desktop application that protects all your digital files against a computer crash. Forever. So when you have a fatal computer crash, you just have to reinstall the crash poof folder on your new system and all your protected files will be visible again. From now on you’re not only protected against a car crash, but also against a computer crash.

Download at www.crashprooffolder.be

The Lorem Ipsum Take-Over app is a taskbar application for OS X. We developed the app together for our friends at Duval Guillaume.

As the year-end holidays approach, the ACC (the Belgian Association of Communication Companies) is launching a new initiative to support the profession. Following last year’s Virtual Strike, this year the ACC decided on a positive incentive called the ‘Lorem Ipsum Take-Over’, an idea that we developed for them.

Via the ‘Lorem Ipsum Take-Over’ tool, the ACC is seeking to continually remind both advertisers and advertising agencies that the best guarantee of excellent work is still a sustainable, long-term professional relationship. The ACC is striving to send a strong positive signal to advertisers that a pitch is not always the ideal way to draw the best from the agencies.

The ACC itself is not so much launching a campaign with the ‘Lorem Ipsum Take-Over’, but rather a long-term approach. The free, downloadable tool automatically replaces all Lorem Ipsum dummy texts with an ACC text that reminds advertisers of the importance of long-lasting professional relations.

In total 43 agencies are participating in the ACC’s Lorem Ipsum Take-Over. Find the tool (and more information) at www.accbelgium.be/loremipsum