Mendix & GenAI: From Builder to Conductor – A 2025 Retrospective and Roadmap for 2026 The holidays are behind us, and 2026 is officially underway. Hopefully, you had some time to recharge and reflect during the break. But now that we are back at it, this isn’t just a standard retrospective. While 2025 was the […]
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From Microfoam to Microflow Part three: Brewing Data into Dashboards Debugging an Espresso Machine Finally, the moment was there to test the entire setup. Two weeks ago, when I hooked up all the components to the Gaggia Classic, it was showtime for the MQTT configuration. At first, everything looked promising—the Gaggimate connected nicely to my
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From Microfoam to Microflow Part two: Continuous Espresso Deployment Installing the Gaggimate Pro & Brewing in the Cloud A few days after hitting “publish” on Part 1, a small package arrived from Italy: my Gaggimate Pro modification kit. This is the point where curiosity meets commitment. If you read the first post, you’ll know I
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From Microfoam to Microflow Part one: Goodbye Isomac, welcome Gaggia! If you had told me five years ago that I’d be working my head around water temperature, extraction pressure, and brew ratios, I would’ve laughed and reached for a cup of Nespresso coffee. But things change—especially when you discover the joy of a well-brewed espresso
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Scaling video delivery in Mendix applications requires thinking beyond the platform’s capabilities. Mendix developers face a significant challenge when implementing video functionality in their applications: the platform’s native approach to video handling simply wasn’t designed for efficient delivery at scale. When your Mendix application serves video content directly, each file must be loaded entirely into
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If you’ve spent any time in the Mendix ecosystem — either as a developer, manager, or trainer — you’ve probably noticed this pattern: someone completes learning paths, reads some documentation or blogs, watches a youtube video, probably passes an exam or two… and then freezes when they need to build something real. Why? Because understanding theory isn’t the same as being able to apply it.
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As Mendix developers, we often encounter scenarios where we need to duplicate data, whether it’s copying an object for a new record, creating a template, or preserving an original state before modifications. The Community Commons module, a staple in the Mendix Marketplace, offers a powerful tool for this: the DeepClone Java action. Unlike a simple
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Hackathons, who these days hasn’t heard of them? Although originating in the 90s, hackathons have quickly gained popularity and are now used by both developers and organizations to discover new opportunities for their software. For enterprises, these sorts of events can also lead to new insights and business opportunities. For developers, taking part in a
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Imagine a future where engineers on the shop floor solve technical issues within minutes using AI-powered applications. That future? It’s already here. On October 16th, dsm-firmenich’s Digital & Tech’s Low-Code Chapter led by Anouke Tielens-Coenegracht, in collaboration with The Orange Force, hosted an innovative hackathon, focused on making life easier for shop floor engineers by
They can build apps, widgets, Java actions, play FIFA, and in recent times also have become podcast hosts! Our colleagues Paul Ketelaars and Freek Brinkhuis have launched their new podcast show called No Deploy Fridays. This podcast is all about the technicalities of the Mendix Low Code Platform. Are you interested in learning more about,
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Mendix developers, there seems to be a chronic shortage of them. Each year Mendix does a survey with their customers to determine their biggest challenges. And for the last couple of years the developer shortage has made the top 3. There are quite probably several reasons for this shortage. But for this blog I want
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If you are reading this title and think CrowdStrike, don’t you mean that old-school shooter game everyone was playing in the early zeroes? You might want to open a random news website and start reading. Or let me at least give you a small digest. Last Friday (19th of July) cybersecurity company CrowdStrike rolled out
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Certified Mendix partner, The Orange Force (TOF), branches out into the training sector as an official Mendix training partner with The Orange Force Labs.
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Being a lazy UX Designer might not sound like a great selling point, right? Well, in this blog post, I’ll explain why laziness is a good thing that not only helps me out but, hopefully, helps other people out too. Stuck on Repeat Throughout my career, I’ve worked on numerous Mendix UX projects, ranging from
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What happens when you let 8 experienced Mendix consultants build an app with Microsoft PowerApps, with a Star Wars theme? You might think, here we go again. Another comparison between Microsoft PowerApps and Mendix, two ‘low code’ platforms, that will be full of marketing lingo. Well, you’re almost right. As this article is intended as
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