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Kotlin
Quirks of Kotlin - Synthetic Constructors
Today I want to go over a pretty odd bug our team came across recently, and the insights it gave us into the inner workings of the Kotlin…
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tech
Five years of Kotlin
As a software development company that does greenfield application development for our clients, choosing the right technologies for the job…
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news
Meet us at InnoTrans 2022 Berlin - Germany
At the upcoming Innotrans (20 – 23 September, Berlin Messe, Germany), Ximedes will be an active participant. Visit us at Stand 210 in Hall…
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Most people working at Ximedes are involved in developing software. We develop this software for clients who have come up with a new idea on how to change the way they do business, and need software and related services (such as hosting and maintenance) to turn that idea into reality. Our role as technology provider is to make sure we understand that idea, and then design, build, test and optionally host a software product of the highest quality and security. Read more
news
Breaking News: Ximedes acquires Ginger Payments
We are proud to announce that Ximedes acquires Ginger, the leading Amsterdam-based online payment platform provider. Ximedes’s acquisition…
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code
Load Testing TapConnect with Gatling
TapConnect is a barcode ticketing solution for public transport developed by Ximedes. We validated the performance requirements of…
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Education
Kotlin Health Monitor
No matter how impressive the application, it needs to report its health so we can make sure it stays available to its users. It is quite…
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Events
Embedded Payments Part 2
The annual Dutch event "Toekomst van het Betalingsverkeer" (Future of Payments) will be held for the 31st time on Wednesday March 31st…
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Faretech
Ximedes at IT Trans Karlsruhe 2022
At the upcoming IT Trans in Karlsruhe (10 – 12 May ’22, Germany), Ximedes will be an active participant. Visit us at Stand X.14 30 in the DM…
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Tech
Starlink: Disrupting Tech, Science, and Geopolitics
Starlink and similar satellite constellations will soon revolutionize access to the Internet, both for us and for our devices, so we tried…
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Faretech
Cash register and service solution for Public Transport companies
Ximedes joins forces with Bovertis to combine OV-HOST with POS hardware & software. (Nederlandse versie) The cooperation between Ximedes…
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Ximedes at Toekomst van het Betalingsverkeer
The annual Dutch event "Toekomst van het Betalingsverkeer" (Future of Payments) will be held for the 31st time on Wednesday March 31st…
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Code
On the Origin of Complexity
The power of simplicity. It was one of the most remarkable discoveries, back in the 17th century. Of course, everyone knew that apples fell…
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Faretech
GIVA in a Day
Open standards for rapidly adding commercial vehicles to public transport fleets Recently GVB, the public transport organization for the…
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Faretech
Mobile Sales of eTickets (barcodes)
Mobile Sales of Barcode eTickets The traditional way of selling and distributing tickets for public transport is dramatically changing and…
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Education
Ximedes at School (Part 2)
Explain it to me like I am a 4th grader - Programming Lessons for grades 3 and 4. (Nederlandse versie) Last year, I was asked to teach…
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Paytech
Vending the unvendible
Vending the unvendible: Powered by Pecunda Last week Ximedes started a pilot of “get IT” via a vending machine with our Pecunda payment…
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Fintech
Ximedes at Codeference
Ximedes presented at Codeference Serbia. Recently, from November 9th to 11th, a student conference called Codeference was held in Zlatibor…
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Faretech
Inspection solution for bankcard travel
Inspection solution bridges the gap for bankcard travel Bankcard travel will be the next revolution in the Public Transport sector, where…
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Fintech
Banks: Ready or not?
Offering Payment services; strategic choices for banks Lately, much has been written and presented by banks regarding efforts to upgrade…
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Faretech
Ximedes at Money2020
Ximedes is present at Money2020! And at the same time "Payments and Fintech Magazine" published a nice article about our payment services…
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Faretech
MaaS Providers sell public transport tickets via TapConnect
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is quickly on the rise. With a MaaS App travellers can buy a bus ticket, rent a bike or an electric scooter…
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Technology
Engineering for Resiliency
Money transfers, fare payments, fleet movements: Ximedes plays a central role in realizing core processes where resiliency is critical…
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News
Cape Investment Partners invest in Ximedes MBO
Ximedes has been growing rapidly. With about a hundred employees and offices in the Netherlands, Serbia, and Germany, we have been…
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Christmas
Biggest Christmas Tree
For the past 22 years, the 372 meters high Gerbrandy Tower in IJsselstein has been decorated with lights to make it the biggest free…
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FinTech
B2B Onboarding for financials
Based on best practices Ximedes has entered the market for B2B Onboarding. Any financial firm has to comply with extensive legal and…
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FinTech
Building Loomis Pay
Last September, Swedish cash management company Loomis announced the launch of Loomis-Pay - a brand new PSP for omni-channel payments…
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Faretech
Ximedes at IT Trans Karlsruhe
At the upcoming IT Trans in Karlsruhe (1 – 3 December ’20, Germany), Ximedes will be an active participant. Visit us at Stand 2.E30 in Hall…
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Faretech
TapCheck barcode solution is go for launch
TapCheck (https://tapcheck.io) is a barcode solution for public transport, supporting global barcode sales, efficient validation and MaaS…
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Kotlin
Role-based authorization in Ktor
Ktor is an open source framework for creating HTTP servers and clients. Its use of non-blocking I/O and asynchronous design (using Kotlin's…
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Education
Ximedes at School
Programming at school, grade 3 and 4. (Nederlandse versie) When asked to teach programming lessons at school I immediately thought of how…
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Code
@Kotlin DSL Tutorial
Kotlin DSL - Type safe builders A (D)omain (S)pecific (L)anguage is a format for describing things in a specific domain. A very basic…
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General
@office anywhere
It's probably one of the most talked-about topics, along with corona disease itself, the lock down and working from home. Working from home…
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General
Ximedes Corona Update
Availability Ximedes Service Desk during Corona measures. Based on the current situation due to the Corona virus and the consequences with…
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Technology
Dealing with Open Source
Dealing with Open Source At Ximedes we love Open Source. Open Source software enables us to move fast, be transparent and pay it forward…
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PayTech
New Pecunda touch screen reloader
Ximedes is upgrading Pecunda hardware products. Next to the earlier released Pecundabox, the all new smart payment controller, Ximedes adds…
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FinTech
Instant AML-Compliant Merchant Onboarding
Client onboarding crucial to prevent money laundering Well respected banks as Danske, Nordea, Swedbank, ING and ABN AMRO are involved in…
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FareTech
Ximedes wins GVB Barcode Tender
Press-release: Ximedes wins GVB Barcode Tender On Friday November 29th, Amsterdam’s public transport operator GVB announced that the…
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FinTech
Small payments within big organizations
In many big public organizations coffee machines, vending machines, printers and even the cash register at lunch only accept cash. In a time…
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FinTech
dockdock to control your subscription payments
dockdock provides control and ease of payment over all your subscriptions In a world that is changing from buying to using, resulting in…
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FareTech
Ximedes at World Rail Festival Amsterdam
World Rail Festival Amsterdam (3 – 5 December ’19). At the upcoming World Rail Festival in Amsterdam, Ximedes will be an active…
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FareTech
Tapcheck.io makes barcodes easy!
Within the public transport arena, traveling with a barcode is gaining traction, helped by the growing availability and popularity of the…
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PayTech
Pecunda integrates OpenID Connect
Pecunda, Ximedes’ closed loop payment system, is continuously innovated based on modern state-of-the-art standards. Pecunda Users and…
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PayTech
Pecunda REST/JSON payment interface
Paying, like for printing, with online Pecunda accounts is made easier with Pecunda’s External Payment Interface (EPI). Based on a REST/JSON…
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FinTech
Seamless payments for unattended shopping
Today, Albert Heijn introduced a new shopping concept for an unattended digital store. Customers open the store by tapping their payment…
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FinTech
Ximedes and Klarna introduce seamless payments at universities
Ximedes' closed-loop payment platform Pecunda is used by many large industries and universities. Topping up the cards was always a bit of a…
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FinTech
Ximedes attending Money20/20 in Amsterdam
Money20/20 Europe delivers the insights organizations need to revolutionize the payments and financial services industry. Through extensive…
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FinTech
Open Banking: Providing an FX API
Post-PSD2 banks are considering premium B2B APIs that are monetized. In this series of blogs, we discuss several ideas for such B2B APIs. As…
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PayTech
PecundaBox, the new Pi-based controller
Ximedes introduces its new Raspberry PI based smart controller Pecundabox. The Pecundabox (PBX) is a new state-of-the-art smart controller…
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FareTech
Explaining ITxPT at Transport & Ticketing London
Recently Ximedes has been exhibiting at Transport & Ticketing in London, displaying it's expertise on Public Transport specific software…
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PayTech
Pecunda payment system for the European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (the EPO) carries out searches and substantive examinations on a steadily rising number of European patent…
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PayTech
Ximedes opens office in Hamburg
By selecting Hamburg, Ximedes settles in the second FinTech city of Germany. In Hamburg, several Universities, leading banks and Fintech…
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Ximedes
Continuing support for the UN Global Compact
Ximedes has been a member of the UN Global Compact since 2012, and I am pleased to confirm that Ximedes continues its support of the Ten…
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Faretech
Ximedes @ Transport & Ticketing (29-30 january)
At the upcoming Transport & Ticketing event in London (29-30 January), Ximedes will be exhibiting and speaking. As a silver sponsor, Ximedes…
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Fintech
FinTech Week Hamburg
Ximedes was present at the FinTech week Hamburg (October 15-18). We found the event well-organized, with enthusiastic participants, and…
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Faretech
Ximedes @ Persontrafik (Stockholm, 22-24 October)
Benefit from our experience with the BUS implementation of an IP based platform for Public Transport Vehicles On any Public Transport…
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Agile
Self-organizing is hard work
Self-organizing teams play an important role in agile methodologies. They might also be the hardest to accomplish. Although Ximedes is…
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FinTech
Ximedes@Money20/20 Europe
Ximedes welcomes you to our Money20/20 stand #C100! Ximedes will be attending Money20/20 Europe. This market-leading three-day event that…
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FinTech
Travel with your Bankcard
Ximedes facilitating bankcard travel for Public Transport Recently, Translink has announced that the pilot with the ‘OV Chip mobiel’ will…
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Technology
Hosting a Gatsby site on S3 and CloudFront
Recently, we migrated the Ximedes website from WordPress to Gatsby.js. The resulting static site is hosted at Amazon AWS, using CloudFront…
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News
Launching our new site
After a few weeks of rapid design and development, we are proud to welcome you to the new Ximedes website. While triggered by a necessary…
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FinTech
Rabobank's Omnikassa PSP
Rabobank offers omni-channel PSP services to about 10,000 merchants. Rabo Omnikassa (ROK) supports online payments as well as terminal…
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Payments
Daimler Payment System
It started in 2017 with Daimler Trucks, part of Daimler AG Germany. Daimler was ready to select a new vending supplier to serve all their…
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Security
Secure Coding at Ximedes
Every week we see headlines of yet another major corporation being hacked. Attackers are constantly searching for weaknesses in the software…
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Payments
Pecunda at ROC Mondriaan
Pecunda enabling 5,000 students and staff to do cashless payments With 26 schools in The Hague, Delft, Leiden and Naaldwijk, ROC Mondriaan…
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Blockchain
A blockchain master within Ximedes
As Dan Tapscott said: "Yesterday's phone companies make enormous profits from long-distance revenue. Today, Skype does it all for free." So…
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Kotlin
Kotlin, a new tool in the box
For years, the Java programming language, the Java virtual machine and the rich and diverse ecosystem of open source Java libraries and…
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FinTech
Reconciliation Platform for SGR
Imagine that you book a trip to the Canary Islands. You’re looking forward to the journey, but then days before the flight departs – when…
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FareTech
How Public Transport Operators gain control on vehicle operations
On any Public Transport Vehicle (PTV), there are multiple on-board systems that are required to operate the vehicle and it’s services…
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News
Ximedes joins the ITxPT association
As of the beginning of 2018, Ximedes has joined the ITxPT association. The ITxPT association was launched in 2013, and aims to implement…
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FinTech
Building P2P Payment Apps
Send money and chat to anybody Due to mobile technology and changes in banking regulations, fintech is rapidly becoming one of the most…
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Payments
Cashless city transport
Working towards a cashless public transport Increasing safety is the key driver for introducing cashless public transport in the Netherlands…
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News
Ximedes opens office in Germany
The Dutch software company Ximedes opens its first office in Kleve Germany, following recent expansion of its German activities. Existing…
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News
Ximedes @ Money20/20 Copenhagen
Ximedes exhibited its products and solutions at the recently held Money2020 event in Copenhagen, where over 3,700 people attended from 150…
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Technology
Spring Social Facebook Tutorial
Introduction In this blog post I want to introduce Spring Social and how to use it. We are using the Spring social Facebook plugin to fetch…
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FinTech
Team Tikkie wins Mobile Spin Award 2017
Yesterday our team at Tikkie , the ABN AMRO mobile payment app to easily send payment requests to family and friends with WhatsApp, won a…
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Code
Swift 3 iBeacon Tutorial
Introduction This blog post provides a tutorial on how to configure two iBeacons and have an iOS app detect those two iBeacons and react to…
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PayTech
International Payment Platform
Based on our International Payment Platform focus where we offer Clients multichannel payment processing solutions, Ximedes won in January…
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Technology
Test Redux action creators with Jest
At Ximedes, we’ve built many React apps and use Redux for almost all our front-end related projects. For most React projects the Mocha/Chai…
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