Blog & Technical Insights

Recently I had a requirement to publish a Swagger spec. My preferred method as a consumer would always be to have the JSON or YAML available to post to the Swagger Editor, because that tool offers the ability to generate code. But here the recipient just wanted to view it. So I looked at running […]

Some years ago – Lotusphere 2011 – a meme adorned t-shirts “</bitching><doing>“. That meme comes to mind particularly at this time. The rebuke was valid and, I think, heeded. Certainly for myself, 2011 was the start of my journey into open source, a journey that benefitted me personally and Intec in general – and hopefully […]

Next week I have the honour of joining Andrew Manby, Jason Gary and John Jardin in the next #Domino2025, “Node.js and Domino V10 Essentials – What You Need to Know“. The overview of the session is as follows: Spend this session with some of the Domino community’s application development experts, Paul Withers and John Jardin, to […]

Barely has the dust settled from Engage, but the build-up to Domino 10 is continuing. Betas Last week emails went out for HCL Nomad, the official name for Domino apps on iPad. The beta is happening in June, so should be imminent. Obviously testing is tied to Domino username, so each tester needs to register […]

A couple of weeks ago I presented at Engage on developing a React app using Domino as an API gateway and database. The slides are similar to the ones from IBM Think, just a few changes and rearrangements, so they are only posted on the Engage website. There are a few aspects I forgot to […]

Over the past few months I’ve been digging more and more into Watson Assistant, formerly Watson Conversation. I’ve also been active in the Slack channels around Watson and Watson Assistant. I’ve become very conscious of a continuing theme around the product, based on a fundamental misunderstanding. It actually reminds me of some sessions I did […]

The last few days at Engage have been very interesting and extremely useful. The event began on Monday for me, with Red Pill Now’s Take-5 Modernization workshop. The event was very well received, reinforcing my experiences from the face-to-face Domino Jam and since, namely that design thinking is a powerful and effective approach for engaging […]

I’ve made no secret of my liking for Watson Workspace. Recently the first part of integration between Watson Workspace and Connections Cloud has gone live. This is integration from Connections Cloud to Watson Workspace. The details are in the IBM Knowledge Center. Currently this comprises two areas of integration: Switching out Sametime for Watson Workspace […]

Today, I came across via Twitter a blog post from Gab Davis, community and IBM Champion legend – and I make no apologies for calling her that, because she is. The blog post concerned me a lot because our community is lauded – rightly so – as being generally more helpful, more collaborative, more open […]

Later this month I will be speaking at Engage, delivering the session that John Jardin and I gave at IBM Think, “Tips and Tricks: Domino and JavaScript Development Masterclass”. As ever, Engage looks to be a major conference on the ICS calendar, with a very strong and interesting agenda. The direction that community sessions have […]