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BSL Blog, Projects and Developments

Our development skills, agile project management and our commitment to on-time / on-budget delivery all illustrate our passion for software. Visit our project portfolio to learn more about some of our successes.

Here in our blog you’ll find “behind the scenes” news, and information about what interests us – and our clients. How our engineers and designers work closely with clients – large and small – to deliver reliable, innovative solutions. Learn about our technologies, responsive websites and the mobile apps we’ve delivered for iOS and Android. Whatever the challenge, we can help you to achieve your business goals. So get in touch, and find out how we can help with your next project.

Front-end Developer at BSL: Roderick Gadellaa

Front-end Developer at BSL: Roderick Gadellaa

We'd like to introduce Roderick Gadellaa - Front-end Developer at BSL. Roderick has strengthened our team since May 2016. A clever guy who knows a great deal about the Web. His creative flair is clear to see in comical drawings that regularly amuse his colleagues -...

BSL’s Online Marketing Assistant: Astrid van Rijsingen

BSL’s Online Marketing Assistant: Astrid van Rijsingen

Astrid van Rijsingen has just joined us as Online Marketing Assistant. We at BSL know our developers and designers do great work - we create innovative custom software for our customers and exciting apps. But we want the world to know too! Recognizing the growing...

Check out the new improved Boekwijzer app – available now!

Check out the new improved Boekwijzer app – available now!

Followers of our blog will know we've been working hard on a redesign of our popular literary app. They'll know too that they've been told to 'watch this space'. Well, the wait is over - you can try out the new improved Boekwijzer app for iOS and Android yourself. ...

Pulse Migration – a service on the move

Pulse Migration – a service on the move

Developed by BSL, Pulse is a real-time news service used by a large international organization. Pulse has been a great success story, evolving into a global service used in more than 20 countries. Until now, the service has been hosted in the Netherlands. However, we...

Jef van Gool retires from Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Jef van Gool retires from Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Jef van Gool is a well-known name in the Dutch world of literature - and at BSL. We were therefore honored to receive an invitation to attend Jef's retirement party on 15 September, at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Den Haag.  An event also tinged with sadness. BSL...

Boekwijzer redesign – a work in progress

Boekwijzer redesign – a work in progress

Our blog readers will know all about our plans for a Boekwijzer redesign. We'd decided it was time to give our popular literary app a facelift. And with the design phase now behind us, we've been hard at work converting our ideas into a working app.  Hear about our...

BSL using SCRUM on latest ABN AMRO project

BSL using SCRUM on latest ABN AMRO project

The BSL team closely follows the very latest trends in development technology. And our clients must innovate too. International bankers ABN AMRO are migrating their Signature Registration System (SRS) to a private cloud. SRS was developed by BSL, and for our latest...

What makes working for BSL fun?

What makes working for BSL fun?

What makes working for BSL fun? We hope that reading this blog will convince some of the 18,807 IT professionals who are currently unemployed to take a look at our current job vacancies! In our previous blog, Eric and Diana explained why they enjoy working for BSL....

Working for BSL – develops your career!

Working for BSL – develops your career!

The job market is picking up. There are plenty of opportunities for anyone looking for work - particularly in the IT branch. And at BSL, we currently have opportunities for software developers and marketing staff. But with so much choice in the IT field, how do you...

Drone controls – a modern day dilemma!

Drone controls – a modern day dilemma!

Drone controls are a hot topic right now. And hot news items are sure to be discussed in the DilemmaMatch community! Developed by BSL, DilemmaMatch is a really great way of starting debates on topical issues – and far more besides. The increasing availability of...

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