“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...
Graphical Tool to build Native Mobile Apps in Bluemix
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...
Attend code.talks in Hamburg next Month
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 MobileFirst Platform Server available as Trial on Bluemix
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...
Accessing Bluemix Services from Liberty Java Applications in Docker Containers
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...
Sharing Bluemix DevOps Pipelines with the Application's Source Code
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...
Deploying Docker Containers via Bluemix DevOps Pipelines
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...
Writing Output of Jupyter Notebooks to Cloudant with Spark on Bluemix
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 ...
Deploying Web Applications generated by Yeoman on Bluemix
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...
Cheatsheet for Docker and IBM Bluemix Containers Beginners
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...