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 […]
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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 […]
Video – Smarter Apps with Cognitive Computing
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 […]
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 […]
Voice-Driven Native Mobile Apps with IBM Watson & IBM MobileFirst
Update: The IBM Watson team just announced a new native SDK for both iOS and Android that simplifies and streamlines integration with Speech To Text and Text To Speech services. Check out more detail here: IBM Watson Speech Services Just Got A Whole Lot Easier. Using your voice to drive interactions within your app is […]
Apple WWDC Recap for Mobile Devs
I’m sure you’ve already heard Apple’s big announcements from the annual Worldwide Developer Conference this week. I was lucky enough to snag a ticket in Apple’s lottery and got to check it all out in person. There were lots of great sessions, with tons of content. Here are the highlights as I saw them from a mobile developer’s […]
Serving Data to the Apple Watch with IBM MobileFirst
This is the third entry in my series on powering Apple Watch apps using IBM MobileFirst. In the first post I covered setting up the project, remote logging, and analytics. In the second post I covered bidirectional communication between the WatchKit extension and host app (not really MobileFirst, but still applicable). In this post we’ll […]
Using Code Blocks Instead of Delegates with IBM MobileFirst Platform in Native iOS Apps
We’ve been able to write native iOS apps leveraging the scaffolding and analytics of the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Server for a while now. This was first introduced way back when MobileFirst still went by the Worklight name, serveral versions ago. As I would write apps, one thing I really wanted was to use code […]