First things first: everyone is a champion in what she/he is doing, regardless of the technology, topic or favor. You are worthy! These days are the days of the IBM Champion nominations. I am still flattered to be in that circle of generous people who share expertise and knowledge in various ways.

Thanks Martin Donnelly (again) I managed to get a very simple application running on Bluemix that uses plugins. In this case it's the OpenNTF Domino API (ODA). If you know how to do it then it's very simple and there are only a few steps to take to get your app running using your favorite plugins and extensions!

DAOBean for XSP on Bluemix. Data source access bean to compute the data source dynamically for local development and Bluemix. Please refer to my blogpost here for details: http://oliverbusse.notesx.net/hp.nsf/blogpost.xsp?documentId=FCA.

Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program (http://www.groovy-lang.org/).

After several approaches to get my registration working for IBM Verse I finally received my account information. Thanks to Fredrik Norling who told me not to use a GMail account for registration but a "serious" company account. With that being done it "only" took 3 days to get it.

Today I had the pleasure being a panelist in the latest webinar hosted by TLCC and Teamstudio. Those webinars are held almost every month with a large amount of attendees (~200 people). I was asked to talk about ideas for application migration strategies and how to transform common patterns of legacy Notes applications to XPages and Java managed beans.