Unified Multi-Platform Push Notifications with IBM MobileFirst
Push notifications, love them or hate them, are everywhere and there’s no getting around it. Push notifications are short messages that can be sent to mobile devices regardless of whether the apps are...
View ArticleMBaaS – IBM Mobile Cloud Services, Bluemix & MobileFirst
MBaaS, or Mobile Backend as a Service, seems to be a particularly hot topic these days. MBaaS generally refers to backend services for mobile applications that provides data storage, user management,...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View ArticleUpdated: Parallax Effects in Hybrid/Web Apps
A while back I wrote about adding parallax effects to your HTML/JS experiences to make them feel a bit richer and closer to a native experience. I’ve just added this subtle (key word *subtle*) effect...
View ArticleGeoPix: 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...
View ArticleIBM Watson QA + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis = A Conversation With...
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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleSay What? Live video chat between iOS & WebRTC with Twilio & IBM Watson...
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...
View ArticleAdaptive 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...
View ArticleJavaScript 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...
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