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IBM Champion 2018
Today when I came back from an early morning ride on the mountain bike there was a message from IBM to inform me that I will be a returning IBM Champion. Feel honoured to be part of an amazing group of dedicated people. Thanks to everyone who nominate me and the people at IBM who Read More
Look back to 2017 and looking ahead
Last week I was thinking about 2017, business and personal wise. Speaking, running, backpacking, being a IBM Champion and more…. Speaking in 2017 Last year I had the opportunity to speak at IBM Connect in San Francisco, IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas and Engage in Read More
Document Conversion API now open source
Last Friday I wrote how we implemented Document Conversion in HR Assistant. Part of the solution was a new project, Document Conversion API We decided to open source it. Below I copied the details from the previous post about this new project. Details It is a Spring boot application, which can run stand alone. I Read More
HR Assistant – Document Conversion but different
Document conversion was one of the top items on our backlog which didn’t make it in the final contest version. What is Watson Document Conversion On the Document Conversion API documentation page is the following stated about this service “The IBM Watson™ Document conversion service converts a single HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word™ document Read More
Quick tip: access the application log files on Bluemix
Last night when I deployed a new version of HR Assistant to Bluemix I ran in some troubles. When the application was deployed and tried to access it via de Application URL I got a 500 internal error. Find the log First step was to open the log page, but was not very explanatory. Next Read More
HR Assistant – Hello Domino….
While we developed HR Assistant it ran smoothly on a Domino server, but it was not using some strength of Domino, security. Run on Domino I made HR Assistant aware of the runtime it runs on, it ‘knows’ when it runs on Bluemix. If that is the case our own developed login features comes in Read More
Quick tip: Make a backup of your Cloudant database
For HR Assistant, we use Cloudant database as storage of the data on the IBM Cloud Today I was thinking about ‘what if we loose our data as something goes wrong’. It is not likeable, but still possible. Make a backup On IBM Cloud, there is documentation about making a backup of your data. So Read More
HR Assistant – now available in every language
One of the latest features I had add to HR Assistant is multi language support. It was obvious we needed this new features, as not the whole world is talking English 😉 One of my goals was to make it as configurable as possible. Default language The default language of the application is still English. Read More
HR Assistant – what happened since last year
Last year I won together with Frédéric Dehédin the ICS Developer Contest 2016 with our HR Assistant application, a cognitive solution to help the HR department with of IBM Watson services. As required the code was open sourced at a public Github repository. What happened with HR Assistant since that moment? From public to closed First Read More