When Bluemix services are created and bound to applications, they usually provision all artifacts needed to use the services. As result of this provisioning they return information to Bluemix that ...

Bluemix provides a Single Sign On Service to authenticate users against the IBM identity provider, Facebook, Google or LinkedIn. Once authenticated applications can access the profile information o...

In my previous blog entry I described how the REST APIs of Bluemix.info have been implemented. Rather than documenting these APIs somewhere else, I’ve used Java annotations to do this directly in t...

Yesterday Ryan Baxter blogged about how to use Spring Boot to develop your own REST APIs. Sounds pretty good. When I implemented the REST APIs of Bluemix.info I didn’t know about this framework and...

Bluemix.info uses Cloudant NoSQL Database for Bluemix as datastore. There is a lot of great information out there about Cloudant in general, e.g. the IBM Cloudant web site and about Cloudant on Blu...

Yesterday we introduced Bluemix.info, the news aggregator for Bluemix developers. Bluemix.info You can find the source code of this application now on GitHub. There are instructions how to set up...

When I started to work on Bluemix, I noticed that there is a lot of information and news about Bluemix. That’s great. However it took me a good amount of time each day to find news since it is scat...

WebGate Consulting AG launched a new product goodmeeting.biz this month. “goodmeeting.biz helps changing our meeting culture. Our Business-Application reduces the running of meetings to the maximu...

This week IBM announced the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Startups. “Through the global program, qualifying startups will receive up to $120,000 worth of credits to put towards IBM C...

At DNUG I attended the session Activity Stream – how to feed the beast! from Andreas Artner. He presented how to use IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) to read updates from various sources, e.g....