The Dash from Bragi are wireless smart earphones with a lot of sensors in them. Below is a quick example how to get data from the heart rate sensor and send it to IBM Bluemix. This functionality co...

From April 19th until 21st my colleagues David Barnes, Ryan Baxter, James Thomas and I will attend JAX in Mainz/Germany to present IBM Bluemix and to talk with developers. JAX is a developer confer...

Before I started to work on Bluemix I had worked 15 years in the IBM Collaboration Solutions space, especially on application development. Below are my personal thoughts on how app dev in IBM Domin...

Tomorrow I’ll give a session at EngageUG with the title “Live on the Edge of Innovation with IBM Bluemix”. Bluemix is IBM’s innovation platform which supports developers to write new applications a...

Bluemix provides various tools that help Node.js developers to build JavaScript applications. Below is a quick overview of tools that I use regularly. IBM Node.js Tools for Eclipse (beta) With thi...

Today I looked briefly into some experimental functionality of the LoopBack framework to develop offline capable mobile apps. I’d like to add this functionality to my sample of the CLEAN stack (Clo...

Yesterday I wrote about how to write JavaScript Actions for OpenWhisk on Bluemix. Actions can be triggered manually (as described in previous article) and when certain events occur. Below is a simp...

Update 02/15/17: Using Node.js to code OpenWhisk actions In addition to Cloud Foundry, Docker and Virtual Maschines Bluemix provides a fourth compute option OpenWhisk (experimental at this point)....

Last week at JavaLand the Anki Overdrive demo was perceived pretty well and I’d like to demo it at other conferences this year as well. Obviously it’s much more impressive to see live demos with th...

This week David Barnes, James Thomas and I attended JavaLand and presented IBM Bluemix. As last year it was a very good conference with high quality sessions and we had a lot of great discussions w...