This week my colleagues David Barnes, Ryan Baxter, James Thomas, Thomas Bück, Timo Roeseler and I attended JAX in Mainz/Germany which was attended by 2000 people, mostly Java developers. There was ...

There is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI) these days, especially since Google’s AlphaGo beat a Go world champion. Companies like IBM are using this technology already in a number of...

At JavaLand we presented how to steer Anki Overdrive cars with IBM Bluemix via speech and gesture recognition. Since the cars send their position data to the cloud we could also demonstrate a simpl...

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...