IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 8.0 Beta Now Available!

Back at the end of February, IBM announced an upcoming beta version of MobileFirst Platform Foundation version 8.0. Well, guess what? … As of last week, it is now available! What is IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation? For those stumbling upon this and wondering “What is IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation?”: IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation is an […]

New Swift Offerings from IBM

In my last post I mentioned some new announcements related to the Swift programming language at IBM.  Upon further thought, I guess it’s probably not a bad idea to re-post more detail here too… If you didn’t see/hear it last week, IBM unveiled several projects to advance the Swift language for developers, which we think will have […]

Mobile Apps, Cognitive Computing, & Wearables

Last week I was in good ‘ole Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect – IBM’s largest conference of the year. With over 20,000 attendees, it was a fantastic event that covered everything from technical details for developers to forward-looking strategy and trends for C-level executives. IBM also made some big announcements for developers – OpenWhisk serverless […]

Introducing the new Watson iOS SDK (beta)

I’ve written here in the past on both the impact of cognitive computing, and how you can integrate IBM Watson services into your mobile apps to add cognitive language processing capabilities and more.  I’m happy to share that IBM has just recently released a new beta SDK that makes integrating more Watson services into your iOS applications […]

Mobile Apps with Language & Translation Services using IBM Watson & IBM MobileFirst

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. I recently gave a presentation at IBM Insight on Cognitive Computing in mobile apps.  I showed two apps: one that uses Watson natural language processing to perform search queries, and […]

Wearables & IBM MobileFirst – Video & Sample Code

Last week I attended IBM Insight in Las Vegas. It was a great event, with tons of great information for attendees. I had a few sessions on mobile applications. In particular, my dev@Insight session on Wearables powered by IBM MobileFirst was recorded. You can check it out here: https://youtu.be/d4AEwCOmvug https://youtu.be/d4AEwCOmvug Sorry it’s not in HD, but […]

IBM Watson Speech Services Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

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. IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud speech services just got a whole lot easier for mobile developers.  I myself just learned about these two, and can’t wait to integrate them into my […]

JavaScript All The Things – Or – Why You Should Pay Attention To JavaScript

This post is inspired by all the comments I’ve seen this week about JS in the enterprise. I would have never imagined this 10 years ago, but JavaScript is now pretty much ubiquitous. Here are a few reasons why you need to paying attention to JavaScript if you aren’t already, and why you should definitely not write it […]

IBM Acquires StrongLoop – Leveling Up Node.js in the Enterprise

Today IBM announced the acquisition of StrongLoop, Inc,  leaders in enterprise development on Node.js and major contributors to Express, LoopBack, and other Node.js tools and frameworks. Node.js is an incredible tool for rapidly building highly performant and scalable back end systems, and you develop it using a familiar core language that most front-end developers are already accustomed […]

Adaptive mobile apps that change based on personal context

That title get your attention?  Yes, it really read “Adaptive mobile apps that change based on personal context” – with near real-time rules application, without much extra development effort.  If that sounds interesting to you, or like a product you might want to use within your own apps, then you might want to check out this site where […]