Notes, Domino, The Cloud and Performance  

By Paul Withers | 8/24/17 9:44 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Over the last month or so, I’ve been working on an application that pushes performance quite a bit. Last week I published a blog post about aspects of developing for performance. I’ll be writing a future blog post (maybe more than one) on the approaches I’ve taken for performance. But in this blog post I want to take a step back and discuss why I had to address performance, even after quite a bit of optimisation from the initial development.

IBM Connect 2017  

By Paul Withers | 2/13/17 12:56 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

With a little over a week to go, IBM Connect 2017 looks set to be as busy as ever. 2016 was a challenging year as a Domino developer, testing the faith and patience of many. My attendance at IBM Connect as a speaker, Business Partner and IBM Champion may seem “business as usual”, but it has not been a straightforward journey. So I hope the experience is as positive as last year but with a more positive rest of the year.

WWS Java SDK API 0.5.0 and GraphQL Visualisations  

By Paul Withers | 1/19/17 1:53 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

As I’ve blogged before, over recent weeks I’ve been working with Christian Guedemann on a Java SDK for the Watson Work Services API. The documentation has been available since it was released at the end of October. There has also been a GraphiQL in-browser IDE for writing, validating and testing GraphQL queries against Watson Work Services, which is invaluable (note: you have be authenticated to Watson Workspace in the same browser for the queries to return any data).

Watson Work Services Java API Introduction  

By Paul Withers | 11/25/16 6:36 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

For a few weeks now, Christian Guedemann and I have been working on a Java API to send requests to Watson Work Services to interact with a Watson Workspace. I blogged about the approach recently. I was determined to avoid Java developers having to write strings of JSON data to pass as queries to Watson Work Services.

Watson Workspace and Watson Work Services  

By Paul Withers | 10/27/16 4:22 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

This week has brought the preview beta of Watson Workspace and Watson Work Services, what was previously called Toscana. These are very early days, without a doubt. Some are disappointed at the progress since the announcement at IBM Connect in February (seem screenshots can be seen here).

Building On Premises XPages The Bluemix Way  

By Paul Withers | 7/13/15 9:43 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

The beta of XPages in Bluemix introduces the concept of splitting design from data, with (on the whole) one NSF for the XPages components and one for the data. But for me that’s not a new concept, and has not been for some time.