As I wrote IBM announced BlueMix RapidApps, a runtime and service to allow business developers to build apps rapidly. Yesterday in the day 3 keynote Jerry Cuomo gave an impressive RapidApps demo.

At IBM Impact 2014 IBM announced BlueMix RapidApps Beta. Check out the announcement and the description of RapidApps. There is also a new IBM developerWorks landing page for RapidApps. “BlueMix R...

My colleague Atsushi Sato notified me that a team of six Japanese IBM Collaboration Solutions business partners, the Kyushu Notes Partner Group, is implementing an XPages based questions and answer...

Last week Phil posted that he’s “picking up new challenges in a much smaller company”. I’ve had the pleasure to work with Phil for more than five years almost on a daily basis. I’ve learned a lot f...

We’ve created a new page on developerWorks that describes the technical capabilities how to do application development for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business, it provides links to more detailed doc...

The video outlines how to set up the Eclipse IDE and configure a simple hello world sample to work against IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Below are some links and snippets you need for the ...

Here are the slides from the session AD206 – Build Apps Rapidly by Leveraging Services from IBM Collaboration Solutions that Henning Schmidt and I presented. Thanks a lot for the great feedback! ...

This week I attended Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. As always Rudi Knegt did an excellent job organizing the event – great speakers and sessions, good opportunities to network and a lot ...

IBM has published many replays of IBM Connect 2014 sessions on socialbiz User Group. Below are some of the sessions related to app dev for IBM Connections. AD101: Extending IBM SmartCloud Applicat...

I’ve updated the home page of my blog slightly. At the top there is now a list of links to recent publications about application development, IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud. I don’t want to bl...