Blog & Technical Insights

The first part I’ll cover is the scheduler – Node-RED. Many developers may not be familiar with it, but for more on why I think it’s a good fit, see the previous part of the series. The best place to get started is the Getting Started part of the Node-RED site. Node-RED, as its name […]

Two months from today IBM Think will officially start, although the IBM Champion day on March 18th will be my first – and no doubt very busy – involvement. And the great news is that I will be delivering two sessions that week. Developing with Watson Work Services Java SDK (Session ID 3249) The starting […]

Intec are pleased to announce that as of January 2018 we achieved the highest business partner status available to IBM business partners – Platinum. We have delivered solutions built on IBM technology for many years through our long-standing partnership with IBM, and now, we are honoured to be recognised as an IBM Platinum business partner. […]

It’s great to see the amount of activity in the #Domino2025 Jam forum. But just a few thoughts from my point of view on the vision area: Take a step back and think beyond a specific use case requirement Don’t focus on detail of an individual feature, focus on direction Back it up with justifications […]

On Friday it was confirmed that both Paul Withers and Tim Malone were selected as IBM Champions for 2018. It is the fifth consecutive year that Tim has been an IBM Champion. Paul Withers has been ever-present since the inception of the IBM Champion program for IBM Collaboration Solutions in 2011. It’s a great honour […]

Before Christmas I blogged a teaser about running Xots tasks scheduled. Various demos have been constructed and a video will be coming, but I decided to blog about the components I would recommend to a customer. This is very much a modular approach with a lot of BYO components. But therein lies its strength, in […]

Some years ago I developed an XPages application that heavily used ODA. In fact, it was the first I used Xots in. At the time, I needed a scheduled agent to send email reminders. I was frustrated that the only option if I wanted code in the NSF was a Java agent, which required me […]

Recently I’ve been digging into the Watson Conversation APIs. With Java being my language of choice, the natural starting point was the Watson Brewery demo which integrates with Watson Workspace. This in itself was a learning experience as I finally stepped beyond the world of Eclipse to use IntellJ IDEA, as mentioned in the ReadMe. […]

Those of us who have been working with Domino and Java for some time know that one of the big strengths over LotusScript is the host of standard Java libraries that can be utilised. If you want better string or number handling etc, you have Apache Commons libraries. If you want Excel export, you have […]

One of the aspects of Social Connections that I meant to include in my blog post summary but forgot was the issues around wifi access. No matter what a venue says about their readiness, it’s an aspect that I’m sure is virtually impossible for conference organisers to check or test beforehand. So if they say […]