This week my colleagues James Thomas, Jonathan Kaufman, Tristan Reckhaus and I attended code.talks in Hamburg, Germany. code.talks is a developer conference with 1500 attendees covering various top...

In order for Java developers to test their applications in containers they typically have to build their code, create an image and run a container. You can use the Docker command line interface to ...

Yesterday I attended AdminCamp which is a yearly conference for IBM Domino and IBM Connections administrators. I gave the opening session about IBM Bluemix administration with a focus on XPages. H...

As a developer advocate for Bluemix, I regularly talk with other developers about the capabilities and benefits of IBM Bluemix. In these conversations, I often use a pitch similar to the one in thi...

I really want to learn more about the Java framework Spring. The simplicity to build enterprise applications together with Spring’s momentum makes it really interesting. So I started with a simple ...

Earlier this month Greg Knowles blogged about the new Bluemix service IoT Real-Time Insights. Below is a quick demo of one of the many capabilities of this service. When the battery level of a dron...

I’ve added a simple Apple Watch App to the Hear the Buzz sample. At this point the list of tweets is displayed so that users can read them and scroll through them via the digital crown. Once watchO...

“Hear the Buzz” is a sample iPhone app which finds tweets with positive or negative sentiments for certain topics via the IBM Insights for Twitter service in IBM Bluemix. Below is a short descripti...

“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...