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.
What makes a Great Rapid App Developer?
Mendix Data Sets and Reporting revisited in 2019
When I first began using Mendix tools and creating Rapid App Dev projects, I was coming from a BI/Analytics career. I was very comfortable with SQL and immediately gravitated towards using it in Mendix as OQL Data Sets. I wrote a few other blogs on here (just search the tag “OQL”) and view some write-ups. Now we are up to v8.2 as of this writing and OQL/Java data source still exist as well as the reports. Do they still make sense?
Designing an Impersonate feature
A feature that is often requested is the ability for a privileged user to impersonate another user’s account. If you aren’t familiar with that, it just means that the privileged account wants to be able to see exactly what that other user sees on the same screens when they logon. It is primarily used for support purposes to assist the impersonated account. We’ve designed this feature in different iterations but it comes with a lot of education and security risks that must be addressed.
How to adopt Mendix successfully as a SAP shop
I share some observations and thoughts on how to be successful when adopting Mendix into your SAP shop!
5 Best Takeaways from Mendix World 2019
Last week, I along with other leaders in our Rapid App Dev practice joined Mendix in Rotterdam for their #MxWorld2019 event. If you’ve read my other posts, you’ll get a more play by play take on the event and the activities my teammates and I participated in leading up to, during, and after the event. I’ve had a few days to step back and reflect on the event and wanted to share my Top 5 takeaways with you. Let me know if you agree or had a different key takeaway (not surprising if you did as there were many announcements!)