Since Liberty profile 8.5.5.4 you can use web sockets in your Java applications. This allows sending events from the server to web clients without having to poll the server. The blog describes thi...

Recently I learned about a nice application to visualize data from sensors (and events) of your Internet of Things devices that you’ve registered with the IoT Foundation in IBM Bluemix. This can be...

IBM Bluemix provides various database services, one of them is the Cloudant NoSQL DB. Cloudant provides a REST API and many client libraries to access the service. In the past I’ve used the Java AP...

Last week at the hackathon at Devoxx we handed out some SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPads that developers could use for their hacks. These devices are rather cheap (around 40 Euro), have a built i...

Last week the IBM Emerging Technologies team attended Devoxx UK 2015 and presented Bluemix at the IBM booth and in various sessions. Additionally my colleagues David Boloker, Mark VanderWiele, Jame...

Here is another short description of another awesome Bluemix service – IBM Globalization. This service provides machine translation capabilities from English to eight other languages at this point....

14 months ago my colleague David Barnes created the most viewed Bluemix video (47k views). At that time BlueMix was still in beta, there was no Docker support yet and many other services were missi...

IBM Bluemix provides a service to define business rules external to your application code. This allows changing rules more dynamically without having to recompile and redeploy the complete applicat...

On June 17th the IBM Emerging Technologies team will host a hackathon Hacking On IOT devices and Drones at Devoxx London. For the winning team we have GoPro cameras and for the second winning team ...

For the IBM Bluemix Internet of Things hackathon at Devoxx in London, I open sourced another sample from my colleague Bryan Boyd. The sample extends the Sphero Bluemix iOS app. The new project cont...