“Hear the Buzz” is a sample iPhone app which finds tweets with positive or negative sentiments for topics which users enter manually or via iOS speech recognition. The discovered list of tweets can...

I’ve tried briefly the new third party service Kinetise: build mobile apps in a snap! in IBM Bluemix. For testing purposes I built a mobile app that displays news entries from Bluemix.info. Kineti...

On September 29th and 30th the developer conference code.talks will take place in the Cinemaxx Hamburg. The organizers expect again 1500 participants who can learn about the latest trends in Java, ...

IBM Bluemix provides several services to build backend functionality for mobile iOS, Android and hybrid apps. There are mobile services to store data server and client side, to handle authenticatio...

IBM Bluemix allows developers to host their Docker images and to run their Docker containers in the cloud. In addition to hosting Docker in the cloud, Bluemix also provides more than 100 services t...

With DevOps pipelines in IBM Bluemix developers can define how to build and deploy their applications, for example applications packaged via Docker. Pipelines can be created manually via the Bluemi...

In addition to the Docker and IBM Containers CLIs (command line interfaces) you can also use IBM Bluemix DevOps pipelines to build images and run containers on the server. DevOps pipelines have mu...

With the new beta service Apache Spark and the support of Jupyter Notebooks in IBM Bluemix data analysts can run large scale data processing. The output can be visualized directly in the notebooks ...

My colleague Ryan Baxter pointed me to a nice tool to set up new web applications. The tool is called Yeoman, the “web’s scaffolding tool for modern webapps”. The tool helps especially developers w...

As a developer I prefer graphical tools since I often cannot remember all the different commands for various CLIs (command line interfaces). In cases where I have to use CLIs I write down my own li...