At a customer we are building lots of microservices with Spring boot which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted at the Azure platform. Some of these microservices are called from web pages with certain specific information, like field info. So in our projects we have most of the time a test html page to mimic Read More
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Quick tip: run your Cloudant data everywhere with CouchDb
I moved our HR Assistant application to a Spring boot to run everywhere, but the data was still stored in a Cloudant database running on IBM Cloud. No problem, but not that flexible. So I was looking for a way to to store the data somewhere with minimum impact. Step 1: Get CouchDb running I Read More
A small open source project: Cloudant REST API
At IBM Think John Jardin and Paul Withers had a session, Tips and Tricks: Domino and JavaScript Development Master Class. It was great session about React, web sockets and Domino REST API. At the end of this session I got an idea to provide a Cloudant REST API, with the same endpoints of the Domino API Read More
I will be speaking at Engage, ship ahoy!
Earlier this week I got the confirmation from Theo Heselmans that my session proposal was accepted. I am extremely proud to speaking again at Engage. The agenda is, again, top notch. Engage is always a special place for me, because Theo gave me, in 2012, the opportunity to speak for the first time at such Read More
Quick tip: Front end frameworks and Maven dependencies
Lately I am only building application with Spring Boot, where I use Thymeleaf front end templating engine. A very powerful combination, but sometimes you need other Front end frameworks, like Bootstrap or JQuery and more. Problem You can add all the required files of the desired front end frameworks to the resource directories for your Read More
What I am thinking about IBM Think
2 weeks ago I have attended IBM Think in Las Vegas. The super conference of IBM by merging all the other conferences, like InterConnect, Edge, Amplify, World Of Watson and Connect/Lotusphere Overall impression Last year I was at IBM InterConnect, so I was prepared for the amount of attendees. And yes on Monday when Read More
IBM Think: my topics
With IBM Think 2018 just around the corner, it is time to finalise my schedule. I am fortunately to be already in Las Vegas to run a 12K tomorrow near the Hoover Dam. There are so many sessions at IBM Think, that it could be overwhelming. Pick topics As at IBM InterConnect I picked a Read More
I am speaking at SNoUG, see you in Zurich
End of last week I received an very pleasent email from Andrew Magerman. My session has been accepted for SNoUG 2018 in Zurich on April 18th. My session Title: Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf for (Xpages) developers. The world of (Xpages) developer is moving fast. Customers rethinking platforms and solutions. Spring Boot Read More
I will be speaking at EntwicklerCamp, again
I am pleased to return to EntwicklerCamp in Germany. This year it will be April 23rd till April 25th. My sessions At EntwicklerCamp I will do an enhanced session about HR Assistant, focused on the development part. I will show the latest enhancements. In my second session I will give an introduction to Spring Boot Read More
Make the NSF modern again with OpenNTF Domino API
Currently the Domino Jam 2025 on underway, both on premise or online, where you can have a say about the missing features for the next Domino releases. Go participate today, https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/community/domino2025. One of the idea posted by my fellow IBM Champion Daniele Grillo about moving the NSF to a more modern NoSQL approach. I totally agree Read More