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
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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 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
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