All IT leaders face challenges of outdated technology.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.
As one of Mendix's MVP's, I was blown away by what was presented. Mendix 7's features, meeting in person my colleagues from around the globe, and the time spent with Mendix employees that I don't get to see nearly as often as I'd like. I'm not going to recap the show (press releases will take care of that) but rather share some thoughts about what I experienced.
A lot of Mendix app developers are rightfully excited when they need to implement security; Mendix provides for the common options directly in the Business Modeler and in addition, there are modules such as LDAP and SAML that can be included into an app to take advantage of SSO. But what if you need to run security in the application but need to add customizations above and beyond what is provided in the default Mendix setup? I’m going to show you a few common requests that security teams ask for and show you how to implement them in your application.
This isn't a fully featured blog post or anything. I just wanted to capture (and share) some lessons learned over the past week with one of my clients when attempting to configure Mendix on premise with Oracle as the DB.
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.
