by Frank van der Linden 

Quick tip: test HTML pages on a local webserver with NodeJS  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/14/18 3:10 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

At a customer we are building lots of microservices with Spring boot which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted at the Azure platform. Some of these microservices are called from web pages with certain specific information, like field info. So in our projects we have most of the time a test html page to mimic the actual behavior.

Quick tip: run your Cloudant data everywhere with CouchDb  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/10/18 11:31 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

I moved our HR Assistant application to a Spring boot to run everywhere, but the data was still stored in a Cloudant database running on IBM Cloud. No problem, but not that flexible. So I was looking for a way to to store the data somewhere with minimum impact.

A small open source project: Cloudant REST API - elstar IT  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/2/18 7:54 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

I got an idea to provide a Cloudant REST API, with the same endpoints of the Domino API but storing everything in Cloudant or CoucheDb. Which results in a Spring Boot application. All the endpoints of the Domino REST API are available in this new REST API.

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.

And the winner is...... HR Assistant - elstar IT  

By Frank van der Linden | 9/19/16 12:04 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

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 the east from us.

Update on my Cloudant connector for XPages  

By Frank van der Linden | 4/15/16 7:44 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

A few weeks ago I released a small OSGi plugin project which connect to Cloudant. More details, see my previous blog. I have changed the plugin completly. One of the reasons is to make it easier in the future to add new functionality. There are so much nice feature to be added.

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.