All IT leaders face challenges of outdated technology. Sometimes it’s time to build or buy a new application. But nowadays, it might make more sense to refresh the new old one. I explore those challenges and provide real client examples where I’ve used low code to help in both cases.
I share my thoughts on the recent acquisition of AppGyver by SAP and how that does or doesn’t relate to their SOLEX partner, Mendix.
The world is battling a war on two fronts: our health is threatened by COVID-19 and our economies have slowed and even stopped in certain sectors. As an App Developer, does my work really matter in such times?
After years of delivering, leading, and coaching leaders in Rapid App Development, I give you my perspective on what skills and profile it takes to be a ‘Great’ RAD Maker.
It’s been 1 year since I first wrote the post, “Extending SAP: Fiori or Mendix?” and a lot has changed. Because of the changes, this older post has gotten a lot of renewed interest so I thought I would take a look at my opinions from a year ago and see if they differ. If you haven’t already, please refer to the original article to have context for this one.
IT should be an expert “SWAT” team with precise skills to tackle the toughest app challenges, not a bottleneck to solving business problems.
I've been so swamped with the project I'm in that I haven't had a chance to write! Fortunately, one of my colleagues did have a chance and is starting a series on how to leverage Eclipse to manage your CSS and SASS sheets instead of the Scout and Sublime approach.
I thought I would pass on some information I struggled through and also record it for my own sake. The documentation on how to use the Format String widget is unclear. Read on if you want to save yourself some frustration.
It's been too long since my last post, but I genuinely have been too busy developing apps and growing our Mendix business to carve some time out to write (just ask my family!) That said, I wanted to get a few notes written down to help me remember a few things as we prepare our apps for the update process and maybe key other readers in on oft-overlooked features of the latest releases of Mendix to help them prepare as well.It's been too long since my last post, but I genuinely have been too busy developing apps and growing our Mendix business to carve some time out to write (just ask my family!) That said, I wanted to get a few notes written down to help me remember a few things as we prepare our apps for the update process and maybe key other readers in on oft-overlooked features of the latest releases of Mendix to help them prepare as well.
This past week while working on a module in Mendix that required the consumption of a web service, I ran into the situation where the response was CDATA. I hadn’t encountered that before so I did a bit of research. Apparently this is used to extend and change API’s without changing the structure of the WSDL. This makes a lot of sense since once an API is created there can be 1 to n number of other systems using it and any change will require all of the end users to change their work. If you’ve ever encountered this or want to understand how to deal with parsing CDATA in Mendix, read on!
Yesterday I was writing a report in Mendix for one of my clients and I hit a few different walls. For those that have worked with OQL and Mendix, you've undoubtedly hit the same walls. I searched for some help and frankly found very little. That's probably because it's a lightly used feature in the platform and therefore hasn't gotten a lot of attention from the development team for quite a while, which I completely understand, but I figured that as long as I'm using it and learning more about it, I should capture what I'm learning to help others out there that are hitting those same walls.
