Significant Advances in the Consumer Drone Market

Lately I’ve been so focused on mobile, apps, development, conferences, and more that I haven’t posted much besides IBM work news and projects.  Well, I’m taking a break for just a moment… If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then you already know that I’m pretty much obsessed with “drones”.  It is by far the […]

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 […]