Today I have gave a presentation at Engage Usergroup in Burgers Zoo, Arnhem. My presentation I was in the emerging technology track to share information about Spring Cloud Stream and how easy it is to connect to a message broker like RabbitMQ or Kafka. Engage 2020: Hello are you listening, There is stream for everything Read More
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Speaking (again) at Engage in a Zoo
Today I received a positive confirmation about one of my abstracts for Engage 2020. So after speaking at the Zoo of Antwerp it will be once again in Zoo. Looking forward to meet all the people, see who they are doing. My session Title: Em02. Hello, are you listening! There is stream for everything Abstract The Read More
Congratulations, you’re an IBM Champion (again)!
Yesterday I received an email from IBM with the above subject, especially from Libby Ingrassia. For me it came as unexpected suprise. So I will be an IBM Champion again in 2020. This now for the fourth time in row, but for the sixth time in total. It remains an extreme honour to get such Read More
Spring One Platform as a first timer
Last week it was the first time I attend Spring One Platform conference in Austin. It is the conference all around the Spring Framework. A very vibrant open source framework which coordinates by Pivotal. Road to Austin A friend of my has joined me (again), so we flew on a direct KLM flight to Houston Read More
Social Connections 15: New technology track
Social Connections is THE user group event about everything around IBM Connections. This year will be edition 15 in Munich on September 16 and 17. New Technology Track Since last edition, as far I know, there is a new track, New Technology. In this track you can share all your experience about new technology and Read More
The slides of my 2 sessions at NCUG 2019
I had the pleasure to do 2 presentations at NCUG, formerly known as ISBG. It were very technical questions, but was happy that people where brave enough to attend 
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 Read More
Engage 2019: The good, the bad and the ugly: a not so objective view on front end development
This week was Engage 2019 in Autoworld in Brussels. Theo Heselmans and crew did an amazing job, again, in a stunning venue. I was privileged to be speaking again. My Session I was really surprised to have a full room. I enjoyed it very much to deliver my opinion on the current most populair front Read More
Speaking at ISBG, hope to see you in Stockholm
Finally the agenda is published for the ICS Nordic event, ISBG. This year I will be one of the speakers. Sessions I will do 2 sessions, both about Spring Boot. One is an introduction to Spring Boot especially for Domino developers. The second will be more advanced, learn more about Reactive programming. Hope to see Read More
See you in Brussels
14th and 15th of May 2019 Engage will take place at the awesome Autoworld venue in Brussels. I am honoured to be part of this event as speaker. This time I will do a session about Front end frameworks in the Emerging Technology track Session details The good, the bad and the ugly: a not Read More
Named as IBM Champion 2019
Just before Christmas I received an email in my inbox. The subject was ‘Congratulations, you’re an IBM Champion (again)!’ I am very honoured to be named IBM Champion again. This time only in the category ‘Cloud’. This my 5th year, after 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018. Class of 2019 Here you can read about the Read More