I’ve implemented a sample Facebook Messenger bot which leverages the Node.js library Botkit and IBM Watson Conversation. With Botkit you can build bots for Slack, Facebook Messenger, Twilio and ot...

My first code pattern (formerly known as developer journeys) has been published on developer.ibm.com/code. The pattern describes how to build Alexa skills with OpenWhisk. Rather than using intent ...

IBM App Connect is an IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) to connect different applications without having to write code. Similarly to IFTTT users are typically business users or citizen deve...

This week I attended W-JAX in Munich, Germany, which is a developer conference with 1400 attendees with a focus on Java and enterprise technologies. My colleagues and I presented and demonstrated t...

In conversational experiences entities are used to identify classes of objects in user phrases, for example ‘city’ or ‘person’. Watson Conversation supports entity definitions with predefined lists...

The team of developer advocates within IBM has created a new site with journeys for developers. Journeys are sample scenarios that are available as open source, well documented and easy to reuse an...

In order for developers to get started quickly to build applications and deploy them on the IBM Cloud, new starter kits have been made available. Check out the new IBM Cloud App Service. You can c...

Last week Ansgar Schmidt and I gave a session at Codemotion How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript. Below are the slides with screenshots of our demos. We demonstrated how to write a N...

Today at Serverlessconf IBM announced a new key capability (as IBM Research preview) of IBM Cloud Functions. With the new tool ‘Composer‘ apps can be created which contain multiple cloud functions....

Next week Ansgar Schmidt and I will give a session ‘How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript‘ at codemotion. We will demonstrate how to connect Slack to Watson Conversation via the open s...