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
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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
5 years as a freelancer
As of today I have my 5 years anniversary as a freelancer How it starts In the beginning of 2014 I was thinking to go freelance. At Lotusphere, or what ever name it has back then, in Orlando I remember I had a short conversation with Stuart McIntyre and later via Skype a longer one 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
My review of 2018
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
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
I will be speaking at Engage, ship ahoy!
Earlier this week I got the confirmation from Theo Heselmans that my session proposal was accepted. I am extremely proud to speaking again at Engage. The agenda is, again, top notch. Engage is always a special place for me, because Theo gave me, in 2012, the opportunity to speak for the first time at such Read More