2018 is almost over, a reason to share some thoughts. I was a double IBM Champion, Collaboration and Cloud. Attended IBM Think in Las Vegas. When in Las Vegas I did the St. Patrick run near the Hoover Dam. Delivered a portal for a big city in the Netherlands, based on Spring Boot and Thymeleaf Read More
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Supercharge your API with Reactive Streams
Today I did my session, about Reactive streams at Social Connections 14 in the very sunny Berlin. Slides of the session Social connections14: Super charge your API’s with Reactive streams from Frank van der Linden Reactive Streams Starter For this session I created a starter project, which will give you a kick start if you Read More
My slides of my session at IconUK and more
Icon UK 2018 has finished. Was great to see and speak to many people again. My Slides of IconUK Here are the slides of my session. Icon UK 2018 – Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf for (XPages) developers from Frank van der Linden ….and more For my session I have created a Read More
Quick tip: Swagger support for Spring Webflux
At my customers when I create microservices I always add Swagger support, because it easy to test the microservice. Another create benefit it gives the business also a nice UI to see what to expect. Problem Now I am preparing a demo for my session about Reactive Programming, which I will give at Social Connections Read More
I am…. speaking at Icon UK and Social Connections
I am on my way to Birmingham to attend and speak at Icon UK On Friday at 12:10 – 12:55 I will have my session 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 makes it easy Read More
The slides of my session at Engage 2018
Engage 2018 is over. Another great event, this time at the stunning venue, the SS Rotterdam. My slides Here is are my slides of my session. Thanks everyone who had attended my session Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf from Frank van der Linden Demo project For this session I have created Read More
Quick tip: test HTML pages on a local webserver with NodeJS
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
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
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