This month I celebrate my 10th anniversary as a freelancer. What an incredible journey it was. In the last 10 year I did some great projects. Mostly in the Java space, upgraded many applications from Java 8 via 11 and 17 to 21. Learned a lot about the Spring Framework and really appreciate the great 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
I am speaking at SNoUG, see you in Zurich
End of last week I received an very pleasent email from Andrew Magerman. My session has been accepted for SNoUG 2018 in Zurich on April 18th. My session Title: 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 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
HR Assistant – now available in every language
One of the latest features I had add to HR Assistant is multi language support. It was obvious we needed this new features, as not the whole world is talking English 😉 One of my goals was to make it as configurable as possible. Default language The default language of the application is still English. Read More
Learn, share and Engage in Antwerp
Next week it is time for Engage Usergroup again. This time Theo Heselmans has chosen a very special location, next to the ZOO of Antwerp. Looking forward to meet everyone again and see what the sponsors have to offer. Theo and his team has put together a amazing agenda with top notch speakers and IBM Champions. Read More
Bulk import in a Cloudant database
After some issues with HR Assistant I was thinking it would be a good idea to create a separate database with only the Design documents as schema database. So I replicated all the documents from the original database to a brand new one and called it hrassistant_schema. After the successful replication I kept all only Read More