A while back, I rolled a personal project, which is a Node app, to Bluemix for lightweight use. I managed to make use of Let’s Encrypt for the HTTPS certificate, but only after realizing that there was a bit of a manual aspect to it that is the antithesis of an automated script for such things.

The last couple of weeks has been a roller coaster of fun in regards to a work application and in regards to my extracurricular development activities. Suffice it to say, things are much improved and what follows is what I hope something that others can learn from, though a simple Google search makes me realize that I’m not only not the first, but bound to not be the last, to make the same mistake in Java development.

A few things have been on my mind over the last couple weeks and I thought I’d share them. Stay tuned for my demo app on Bluemix, and if I re-record what I need to, there may be yet another Notes in 9 video submission coming soon; the highlights of my MWLUG session.

It’s here! Ten days into the first month of the 2nd half of 2015, IBM’s XPages runtime (and XPages NoSQL DB service) are live in ‘beta’/experimental. Does that mean it will change? Absolutely.

This is the code name I gave my boiled down session to keep it more in fitting with IBM’s description of a Chalk Talk, I got interesting with things. Specifically a reveal.js mini presentation (mostly so I could give people further reading or references and resources), served by a Node.js/Express app, with live updating presenter controlled slide state, triggered via a web socket.