UPDATE 12/22/15: IBM Recently released a new iOS SDK for Watson that makes integration with Watson services even easier. You can read more about it here. Last week I had the opportunity to present to a great audience at the MoDev DC meetup group on “Smarter Apps with Cognitive Computing”. In this session I focused on how […]
Category Archives: BlueMix
Video: Enabling the Next Generation of Apps with IBM MobileFirst
Back in February I had the opportunity to present “Enabling the Next Generation of Apps with IBM MobileFirst” at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta. It was a great event, packed with lots of useful content. Luckily for everyone who wasn’t able to attend, the organizers recorded most of the sessions – which have just been […]
Say What? Live video chat between iOS & WebRTC with Twilio & IBM Watson Cognitive Computing in Real Time
What I’m about to show you might seem like science fiction from the future, but I can assure you it is not. Actually, every piece of this is available for you to use as a service. Today. Yesterday Twilio, an IBM partner whose services are available via IBM Bluemix, announced several new SDKs, including live video chat as a […]
Complete Walkthrough and Source Code for “Building Offline Apps”
I recently put together some content on building “Apps that Work as Well Offline as they do Online” using IBM MobileFirst and Bluemix (cloud services). There was the original blog post, I used the content in a presentation at ApacheCon, and now I’ve opened everything up for anyone use or learn from. The content now lives […]
Data Management for Apps that Work as Well Offline as They Do Online
Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking at ApacheCon in Austin, TX on the topic of data management for apps that work as well offline as they do online. This is an important topic for mobile apps, since, as we all painfully know already, there is never a case when you are always online […]
Video: The Next Generation of Native Apps Built with IBM MobileFirst
Last month I had the opportunity to speak at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta on building native iOS apps IBM MobileFirst. DevNexus is a great event, and it is always a privilege to attend – I highly recommend it for next year. If you weren’t able to make it, no worries! Most of the sessions were […]
IBM Watson QA + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis = A Conversation With Your Computer
Back in November I released a demo application here on my blog showing the IBM Watson QA Service for cognitive/natural language computing connected to the Web Speech API in Google Chrome to have real conversational interaction with a web application. It’s a nice demo, but it always drove me nuts that it only worked in […]
GeoPix: A sample iOS app powered by IBM MobileFirst for Bluemix
In this post I’d like to show a fairly simple application that I put together which shows off some of the rich capabilities for IBM MobileFirst for Bluemix that you get out of the box – All with an absolute minimal amount of your own developer effort. Bluemix, of course, being IBM’s platform as a […]
Video: MobileFirst for Bluemix (MBaaS)
Last week I gave a presentation to the NYC Bluemix Meetup Group on IBM MobileFirst for Bluemix. Not familiar with the branding and have no idea what that means? It is a mobile backend as a service, which gives you analytics, remote logging, user auth, data persistence & offline synch, push notification management, and more […]
Getting Started with IBM Bluemix Mobile Services (MBaaS)
I recently wrote an overview of IBM Bluemix’s Mobile Back-end as a Service offerings. I wanted to elaborate on the offerings, plus provide in-depth technical and implementation details, so I decided to produce this 5 part video series on Getting Started with IBM Bluemix Mobile Services. This post specifically covers native iOS, though there are also Android and […]