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...
Tools for Node.js Developers on Bluemix
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...
Developing Offline Capable Mobile Apps with LoopBack
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...
How to trigger OpenWhisk Actions on Cloudant Databases Changes
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...
How to write JavaScript Actions for OpenWhisk on Bluemix
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)....
IBM Bluemix Demo with Anki Overdrive Cars
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...
Pictures from Bluemix at JavaLand
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...
Integrating Watson Dialog into Minecraft on Bluemix
Update November 2016: The dialog service has been deprecated and replaced with the Conversation service. In an earlier article I wrote about how to use the Watson Personality Insights service in M...
How to deploy and run Swift Kitura Applications with Docker
At InterConnect IBM announced and demonstrated various ways to run Swift code on the server. You can use the Swift runtime in Bluemix (Cloud Foundry buildpack), you can use the Swift Sandbox, you c...
Introducing the CLEAN Stack: JavaScript everywhere
The popularity and success of JavaScript is amazing. There are 1 million tagged questions on StackOverflow, according to RedMonk there are more JavaScript projects on GitHub than projects in any ot...