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
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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
Domino Version 10 and Beyond – a few toughts
Yesterday Inhi Cho Suh announced the strategic partnership between IBM and HCL to move the Notes and Domino Family forward. In 2018 a brand new version, 10, will be released. For lots of customers who have invested in Domino applications it is very good news. Less need to move away to other products. IBM will be organising Read More
Spring boot and Thymeleaf – rapid application development
At one of my customers I was able to use to build an application with preview functionality of a business critical application. As usual the business wants this application as soon as possible. So the obvious choice was Spring boot in combination with Thymeleaf. Spring Boot Spring boot created spring based applications which can run Read More
Quick NPM tip: don’t forget to uninstall node modules
NPM is great tool to have all your Node modules in your front end project, and don’t have to worry about dependencies. When you find a useful module for your project just do ‘npm install <node-module> –save-dev’ and you are ready to go, but….. it can pollute your node_modules directory with unused node modules. Just uninstall your Read More
Angular 4 bug in combination with latest Typescript
When we upgraded our Angular app to the latest version. We noticed everything worked with version 4.2.3 and Typescript 2.4. The problem After we reinstalled all the nom packages the Angular version was upgraded to 4.2.4, because we had in our package.json ‘^4.2.3’ for Angular packages. When we package everything and republished the app to Read More
Angular and base64 encoding and decoding
Currently I am busy building a Proof of Concept at my customer. We are using Springboot for the Backend services, which get data from Tridion and store data in a Oracle database.. The Front end is build with Angular. We started with version 2 with Grunt as build tool, but quickly we changed it to Read More
The slides of my session at Engage
Here are my slides of my session at Engage. DEV03 – How Watson, Bluemix, Cloudant, and XPages Can Work Together In A Real World Application from Frank van der Linden