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
A small open source project: Cloudant REST API
At IBM Think John Jardin and Paul Withers had a session, Tips and Tricks: Domino and JavaScript Development Master Class. It was great session about React, web sockets and Domino REST API. At the end of this session I got an idea to provide a Cloudant REST API, with the same endpoints of the Domino API Read More
Quick tip: Front end frameworks and Maven dependencies
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
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
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
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
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
Bye Eclipse, hello IntelliJ Ultimate
In Januari I started on a new role, Full Stack developer at Rabobank. One of the developers in my team is a big fan of IntelliJ from JetBrains, so I gave it a try over the past weeks. I must say I don’t miss Eclipse at all. Currently I am running it on macOS, but Read More
My evolution as a developer: becoming a Full stack developer
Is the time of the year to have some time to reflect. Entering the IT Around 2000 I entered the IT world, first as a Domino Administrator, but after a good talk with a former colleague I made the switch to become a Developer. So I became Domino Developer and learned Formula language and Read More