Document Conversion API now open source  

By Frank van der Linden | 12/4/17 2:38 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last Friday I wrote how we implemented Document Conversion in HR Assistant. Part of the solution was a new project, Document Conversion API We decided to open source it. Below I copied the details from the previous post about this new project.

My take on IBM Connect 2017  

By Frank van der Linden | 2/27/17 11:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM Connect went to the west coast of the USA, to the famous Moscone Center in the middle of San Francisco. Last week I have attended and spoken at IBM Connect. Here are some thoughts about the event.

Bye Eclipse, hello IntelliJ Ultimate  

By Frank van der Linden | 2/4/17 4:41 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In January 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 also in a VDI of the customer, which runs Windows.

XPages Quick tip: Move Java files for a better Source Control experiences  

By Frank van der Linden | 9/23/16 6:28 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Over the last months we build the HR Assistant for the ICS World Wide Development Competition. The backend of the code is totally written in Java. The XPages and custom controls only serves the data to the browser, nothing more.

Cloudant-connector for XPages  

By Frank van der Linden | 4/4/16 3:57 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

At Engage I was triggered by a great session of Niklas Heidloff of all the goodies on BlueMix. He was mentioning Cloudant, which is used for Node-Red, and simularities with the Notes Database. Like documents, views and even replication.

Hello Jackson4XPages f.k.a Jackson JSON wrapper  

By Frank van der Linden | 4/1/16 5:46 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week I was thinking about the future of my Jackson JSON wrapper after I added new features, mostly because I needed them for my XPages pet project. Paul Withers was suggesting to contribute it to OpenNTF as project new style.

XPages tip: add a new language to your app  

By Frank van der Linden | 3/8/16 1:41 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In a previous post I blogged about how to make a XPages application multi language. The next step is to add 1 new language in total and no need to modify all the property documents of this new language one by one.

Start contribution to the OpenNTF wiki  

By Frank van der Linden | 3/4/16 3:07 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

At IBM Connect John Jardin was pitching the new wiki of OpenNTF. I think it is a very good initiative to collect as much as possible content about XPages and related subjects in one place. Today I have added my first wiki page about themes.

My slides of SNoUG 2015: Let's serve your data  

By Frank van der Linden | 10/29/15 4:46 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday I attended the SNoUG event in Zurich, Switzerland as a speaker. My session was about servlets, and then especially the OSGi servlets. I created also sample plugins for a Domino OSGi servlet and a web app for a servlet on other Java servers, like Websphere, Tomcat and JBoss.

Added Bootstrap Growl notification to an XPage application  

By Frank van der Linden | 7/23/14 5:43 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

On my current project, who I wrote several blog posts before, I was missing something, the possibility to notify users when a backend process was finished. After I read the post of Jesse Gallagher, Generating Toaster, dGrowl, etc. Notifications From Server Code, I was wondering if I can use this principle for Growl.