At Foreach, we like to give the people we work with a small gift every year, and instead of doing this the first week of the new year, it is becoming somewhat of a tradition to be fashionably late.  So we take a little commercial advantage of Valentine to show our love for you.  And what better way to say we love working with you than with a heart filled with fine Belgian chocolates?

Foreach's alikeforlife concept has been a great success. On Friday 24 December Foreach donated €8.000 to Music For Life.

The simple concept of raising money by liking a Facebook page was extremely well received. While sipping at the fruit juices offered by Foreach's management the employees pulled out all the stops to convince family members, friends, acquaintances, ... to participate. Our initial goal, 1.000 likes for €1.000, was reached after less than a day. The goals we thereafter set ourselves bit the dust one by one. The end result: 80.000 likes in a week's time, for a total amount of €8.000.

During the week the Music For Life event took place, Foreach was omnipresent with its alikeforlife stickers on its cars and its alikeforlife banner. The media and Studio Brussel's hosts were regularly after us. We handed over the money raised to Tomas De Soete on Friday morning at 9:30 at the glass house.

The interactive software application 'Kilootje Minder' (“A Tiny Kilo Less”), commissioned by Brand New Day NV (www.brandnewday.eu) and developed by Foreach bvba (www.foreach.be), is a winner. The Christelijke Mutualiteit's project Kilootje Minder won the Best Nutrition Project Award on Saturday 20th November at the national Nutrition and Health Conference (www.cm.be/nl/100/CM-Fit/Kilootje_minder/index.jsp).

We're looking to extend the Foreach team with two new key players:

• an experienced Java web developer that wants to take on a role as web architect and coach a team of less experienced developers to the next level
• a test engineer with experience in web testing and designing test scenarios, to become part of a focused development team and take responsibility for QA

You can read more and apply for these job openings on our job-site: http://jobs.foreach.be

The fifth edition of Digital Marketing First will take place this Thursday, October 28th at Tour & Taxis Brussels.  This year and for the first time, Foreach is attending as well. 

Together with sister-company KTC from Mexico, we are also announcing the start-up of the KTC branch in Belgium. 

This week the latest versions of the iPhone app of De Tijd and L'Echo made it to the App Store.  Version 1.0.2 is only a minor update that adds support for sharing via Twitter, fixes some bugs and improves compatibility with iOS 4.  See the project sheet for more background information on this project.

The Campus Party 2010 in Mexico City was a 7 day event that saw more than 6500 campers.  Part of the event was a hackathon organized by Alcatel-Lucent in order to promote their new Open API Service.  Contestants could compete for the best application using a mash-up of the Open API services.  Maarten Huijsmans, one of our developers who has been working at our sister-company KTC in Mexico for over a year, was attending the Campus Party and decided to join the contest... and ended up taking away the first prize of 2000 US dollars.

In Trends of June 24th 2010 on page 62, there’s a full page article about Foreach and the Flash-based truck loading app we created.  The article is in Dutch only, written under the category of “green business”.

It’s summer so all’s quiet… except at Foreach.  We’re always looking for good people to join our team and because we have several specific vacancies at the moment, we decided to create a mini-site for all to visit and spread around.

Unfortunately only in Dutch for now, but if you’re interested in joining a fast-growing software developer with a focus on web, mobile and touch devices - or if you think you might know somebody else that’s looking for a career change - visit our job site.