In the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about REST APIs and how they work in Mendix. Today I will be talking about a slightly different but critically important type of REST API; OData. What makes OData so special? OData is a form of REST API, except it has standardized certain features REST APIs do not. For starters, OData supports Querying and Filtering the requests themselves. OData also creates a functional audit trail of changes to your app’s data once implemented. When trying to summarize OData in a sentence…

Application Programming interfaces or APIs have become the standard way we get 2 computers or systems to communicate with each other on today’s web. I use the word “standard” here carefully because if you’ve worked with API development, you will know that they tend to be special and unique from project to project. Most APIs you encounter will follow a set of rules known as Representational State Transfer or REST for short. In this blog, I will be focussing on REST APIs and how they work in Mendix.

Hello Mendix — Part 4 This is a continuation of the Hello Mendix series — where I explain the essentials of Mendix development and try to fill the gaps in your knowledge, as quickly as possible. In part 4 of this series, I will be talking all about Entities and the Domain Models. Let’s go! What is a Domain Model? In Mendix we model our database in the Domain Model. Which is similar to an ERD or entity relationship diagram. Except that it also creates a functional database modeled on that Diagram when your app compiles. …

Hello Mendix — part 3 This is a continuation of the Hello Mendix series — where I explain the essentials of Mendix development and try to fill the gaps in your knowledge, as quickly as possible. In part 3 of this series, I’m going to show you around the Mendix Marketplace, how to include modules from it in your app, and some of my favorite Modules which I use in my own apps. First off, what is the Marketplace?

Hello Mendix — part 2 This is a continuation of the Hello Mendix series — where I explain the essentials of Mendix development and try to fill the gaps in your knowledge, as quickly as possible. In part 2 of this series, I’m going to show you how to enable security in your Mendix project; including 2 different ways to add a login page to your app. Option 1 — Use the default login.html page, by setting the App’s Security level to Production

For all the blogs I’ve put out on really technical things, it always surprises me when people ask me simple questions about the platform. To remedy that, I’ve written a series of quick and to-the-point how-to’s which cover basic but essential things, that every app needs…starting with just creating and deploying your app. How to Create and Deploy, a Hello World App using Mendix. Starting from the Developer Portal click ‘Create App’ at the top, right-hand side and step through the process.

During the middle of lockdown I had a lot of time on my hands, and like many people I spent most of that time binge watching series and having movie marathons. It was during an almost month long movie marathon that I became curious to see if I could build a voice app in Mendix using JavaScript. — Those familiar with superhero movies and other sci-fi genres, will be familiar with digital sidekicks hacking into security systems and more for the main protagonist of the story. But for my build, I would be focusing on the speech-to-text and text-to-speech aspects of my digital assistant voice app. I mean…

Using the Slack REST API and Mendix Published REST services. Hello everyone and welcome. As a developer evangelist who works for Mendix, a large part of my role here is spending a lot of time monitoring the Mendix Community Slack Channel (Click here!). Naturally, we have a few amazing tools installed to our workspace, which got me thinking — what…

My favorite part of Mendix World is the range of sessions that’s offered. The technical sessions always draw me in. And this year was no different, with sessions ranging from native mobile (my favourite), API’s and Rest (challenging), and the product roadmap (Exciting!). But every year I need to make tough choices about which sessions to attend. And every year I always feel as if there is something awesome which I am missing out on.