First time speaking at IBM Connect in San Francisco

After a long period on the sessions waitlist, I received an email that my session is approved, in the end. It will my first time speaking at IBM Connect/Lotusphere, so I am looking forward to it. My session will be about the HR Assistant application, which was the winner of the IBM Development Competition 2016. #1129 Read More

Websphere Liberty Profile and external authentication redirect

At one of my customers I was busy with the upgrade their virtual development environment. Current state Currently we run Websphere Application Sever 8 inside Rational Application Developer on a not so fat virtual development environment. Which cause lots of waiting for the developer to deploy changes of the portal to the local WAS server. Read More

My slides of my Cloudant introduction session at Meet IT

Last Wednesday Meet IT conference was held at IBM Client Center in Milan. I did a session about Cloudant and how you can use it inside an XPages application. My session was in the Auditorium, a big room like a theater with good chairs, very good audio and screens. Was nice to it such big Read More

Special page for my open source projects

Tonight I thought it would be a good idea to create a special page at my side with links of all my open source projects. You can find them here or at the bottom of my homepage.

HR Assistant now as project at OpenNTF

Today I have added our winning application, HR Assistant, as project at OpenNTF. I have added the source code in a zip as the release, but I encourage you to go to the Github repository directly. Included a notice and license file, which is required for every project on OpenNTF. And last but not least, Read More

I will be speaking at Sutol 2016 in Prague

Yesterday I received an email that my session has been accepted for the upcoming Sutol Conference in Prague. It is the first time I will be at SUTOL, so I am looking forward to it. I heard some very good things about this conference.   Hope to see you in Prague next month, may be Read More

Heads up for Salesforces Trailhead

Lately I noticed the increasing demand of Salesforce developers in The Netherlands and I like to explore new technologies. So I was looking for a way to start learning Salesforce, Rene Winkelmeyer, pointed me to Trailhead. I can confirm it is very refreshing way to learn a new platform, there a variaty of trails, Admins or Read More

And the winner is…… HR Assistant

Last Friday during the closing session of Icon UK in London Inhi Suh announced, with a little help of Alan Hamilton, the results of the ICS Developer competition 2016. To my big surprise our submission, HR Assistant was selected as winner. Frédéric, my partner in crime in this competition was also very surprised a few timezones to Read More

Speaking at IconUK 2016

I will be speaking, again, at IconUK in September in London During my holiday I already received an notification that one of my abstracts was accepted. Till last week I didn’t know which session was accepted, but now I know 😉 [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Servlets made easy. Write once Read More

Try to avoid the use of Jars design element

Lately I had pulled a new project to work on, a XPages application with a few external jar files. When I tried to build the application it produced a lot of errors. The most annoying error was that classes could not found, and these classes are inside the external jar. Mmmm… strange.   When I looked Read More