Yesterday I was helping out Patrick Kwinten with some he had with my Cloudant Connector plugin on Slack. He asked also about the possibility to add or modify Design Documents, I found there foundation was already there. Design Documents Design documents can be seen as the schema in your Cloudant database, which specify what is in the Read More
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I will be speaking at Sutol 2016 in Prague
Yesterday I received an email that my session has been accepted for the upcoming Sutol Conference in Prague. It is the first time I will be at SUTOL, so I am looking forward to it. I heard some very good things about this conference. Hope to see you in Prague next month, may be Read More
Heads up for Salesforces Trailhead
Lately I noticed the increasing demand of Salesforce developers in The Netherlands and I like to explore new technologies. So I was looking for a way to start learning Salesforce, Rene Winkelmeyer, pointed me to Trailhead. I can confirm it is very refreshing way to learn a new platform, there a variaty of trails, Admins or Read More
XPages Quick tip: Move Java files for a better Source Control experiences
Over the last months we build the HR Assistant for the ICS World Wide Development Competition. The backend of the code is totally written in Java. The XPages and custom controls only serves the data to the browser, nothing more. The Problem We have all the Java classes in the application as Java Design Read More
And the winner is…… HR Assistant
Last Friday during the closing session of Icon UK in London Inhi Suh announced, with a little help of Alan Hamilton, the results of the ICS Developer competition 2016. To my big surprise our submission, HR Assistant was selected as winner. Frédéric, my partner in crime in this competition was also very surprised a few timezones to Read More
2 years
Today it is 2 years ago that I started my own business as a Freelance developer and I must say I enjoy it every day. The past year I was helping out Belsoft with Application Development projects for their customers, but most of the time I was doing projects in the JEE world, working with Spring Framework (MVC, Read More
Speaking at IconUK 2016
I will be speaking, again, at IconUK in September in London During my holiday I already received an notification that one of my abstracts was accepted. Till last week I didn’t know which session was accepted, but now I know 😉 [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Servlets made easy. Write once Read More
Try to avoid the use of Jars design element
Lately I had pulled a new project to work on, a XPages application with a few external jar files. When I tried to build the application it produced a lot of errors. The most annoying error was that classes could not found, and these classes are inside the external jar. Mmmm… strange. When I looked Read More
Plugin updates: search and date format
Today I made a few changes to the Cloudant connnector and Jackson4XPages plugin. Jackson4XPages I added a new constructor of the JacksonWrapper, a boolean, to control the date format output in the JSON. By default it is true, so the output format is a Timestamp, but if you need a real date, pass false to Read More