One of the many popular feature of IBM MobileFirst SDK is the ability to capture client-side logs from mobile devices out in the wild in a central location (on the server). That means you can capture information from devices *after* you have deployed your app into production. If you are trying to track down or recreate […]
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IBM MobileFirst – Powering the IBM & Apple Partnership
Back in July, Apple and IBM announced a global strategic partnership to redefine how enterprises use mobile applications. Well, last week IBM and Apple announced the first set of apps developed from this partnership. The first set of applications include industry-specific applications designed to “redefine how work gets done”. The first set includes apps for air travel, banking […]
UX & Mobile Apps Leveraging the IBM MobileFirst Platform
When you are developing a mobile app (or website, or mobile web, or TV app, etc..) you should always ask yourself “What kind of an impact does this have on the end user?” It doesn’t matter whether you are creating enterprise apps or games, or anything in between. Every development decision that you make should be […]
IBM Watson, Cognitive Computing & Speech APIs
IBM Watson is a cognitive computing platform that you can use to add intelligence and natural language analysis to your own applications. Watson employs natural language processing, hypothesis generation, and dynamic learning to deliver solutions for natural language question and answer services, sentiment analysis, relationship extration, concept expansion, and language/translation services. ..and, it is available […]
So, What is IBM MobileFirst?
I’m still “the new guy” on the MobileFirst team here at IBM, and right away I’ve been asked by peers outside of IBM: “So, what exactly is MobileFirst/Worklight? Is it just for hybrid apps?” In this post I’ll try to shed some light on IBM MobileFirst, and for starters, it is a lot more than just […]
DevNexus 2014 PhoneGap Presentations
I’ve just wrapped up my presentations for this year’s DevNexus event in Atlanta – it has been a great event, filled with tons of information on web, mobile, and back-end development. I had 3 sessions on PhoneGap – One intro, one advanced, and one a mobile frameworks panel. Below are my presentations. I didn’t record […]
PhoneGap Presentations from HTML5DevConf
I was searching the web earlier this week for an older presentation from a few months back, and just happened to stumble across my recent presentations from HTML5DevConf from this past October. Looks like the videos were posted in November, but I’m just seeing them now. I had two sessions: Designing and Architecting PhoneGap and Mobile Web Apps […]
More Device Motion Experiments with HTML & Adobe DPS
I wanted to follow up my last post on 3D Parallax effects in HTML or Adobe DPS, I’ve decided to release some of the other experiments that I’ve been exploring with device motion in DPS publications. Check out the video below to see two new samples, and a corrected version of the strawberries example from […]
Photorealistic 3D Parallax Effects in HTML or Adobe DPS with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Edge Animate
A few weeks ago, a fellow Adobe colleague showed me a DPS publication that had an amazing design. All of the content looked great by itself, but what really made parts of it “pop” was that in certain areas there was a 3D parallax effect, which made it feel like you were looking into an […]
New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap
A couple of PhoneGap related activities I’ve been up to recently… First, an article I recently wrote on Creating a Card-based UI in PhoneGap has been published on DZone. Be sure to check it out for some tips on creating the user interface, all with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This covers both basic/static […]