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Gladkaxig

Yesterday I got told that it's easy to find our office in Gothenburg using google maps. Why? A hint, the car... Just an example of the meaning of "Gladkaxig".

Purple Scout goes Purple Chefs?

In November the Gothenburg crew went to Wasa Allé for some cooking and eating. How it went? Take a look here.

PurpleMow

Mowing the lawn by pushing a noisy mower in front of you seems rather old-fashioned. The obvious alternative is to purchase a robotic lawn mower. But the cost of these are outrageous, especially if you want to avoid cheaper specimens that you might find mowing adjacent flowerbeds or want to avoid finding the robot going berserk on your neighbor's neatly planted flowers. So why not build one of your own? The material is hardly that expensive and the electronics and software could not be that hard to construct!? In this blog we are going to report from an attempt among colleagues at PurpleScout to build an open-source autonomous lawn mower of our own.

The one day expert

A few weeks ago we launched a new packaged service called "The one day expert". During the last couple of years we have noticed that our customers spend a lot of time on their tools without getting the desired effect. Because of that we have created a packaged workshop that goes through the whole setup of a company's tool chain and highlights improvement areas.

Read more here

Open Source and getting the patch in

Given the recent world status, a lot of companies tend to look into the Open Source world out with a cost perspective only. Projects are stressed to deliver and at the same time the organization has to shrink. So can the solution be to use Open Source software instead of developing the software from scratch?

Finally a new web site

After half a year of planning and execution it is finally here - our new home on the web.