ISBG is Now NCUG – A Report From Stockolm  

By NCUG | 6/19/19, 4:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Now that IBM has sold the entire collaboration portfolio to HCL, we could no longer call ourselves IBM Collaboration User Group (ISBG in Norwegian). And since we now have set ourselves the goal of becoming a user group for the entire Nordic region, it was time for a new name, a new strategy and a new logo.

Java Grab Bag 2  

By Jesse Gallagher | 5/6/19, 12:45 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Following in the vein of "Java Hiccups", I've had a couple things floating around my head lately that I think collectively make for a good post for Java developers, particularly those working in the Domino arena. Without further ado: Map#computeIfAbsent. This is a method that was added in Java 8 and, while it's not as big a deal as the addition of streams, it's one of my favorite additions and something I use very frequently.

BleedingBlue meetup: Whiskey & Watson, Carrots & Robots: Visual Recognition & Machine Learning Demo  

By David Hablewitz | 1/29/19, 2:47 AM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi

If you're in the Seattle / Bellevue WA area, don't miss the next BleedingBlue IBM technology topics meetup.  The subject for this meeting is: Whiskey & Watson, Carrots & Robots: Visual Recognition & Machine Learning Demo We will dive into some data science techniques and tools using IBM’s Watson Studio. Using whiskey data, you’ll learn how to build a dashboard, machine learning model, and Watson visual recognition model all without coding.

Introducing Blue Cloud Mirror, a Fun IBM Cloud Showcase  

By Niklas Heidloff | 1/23/19, 11:15 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show five specific emotions and do five specific poses in two levels. The faster, the better. Play the game. It only takes a minute. All you need is a webcam and a Chrome browser.

Chatbots and Watson Assistant: Understanding The Moving Parts  

By Paul Withers | 5/29/18, 4:09 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Over the past few months I’ve been digging more and more into Watson Assistant, formerly Watson Conversation. I’ve also been active in the Slack channels around Watson and Watson Assistant. I’ve become very conscious of a continuing theme around the product, based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

Quick tip: test HTML pages on a local webserver with NodeJS  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/14/18, 3:10 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

At a customer we are building lots of microservices with Spring boot which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted at the Azure platform. Some of these microservices are called from web pages with certain specific information, like field info. So in our projects we have most of the time a test html page to mimic the actual behavior.

Watson Workspace Integration into IBM Connections Cloud  

By Paul Withers | 5/14/18, 3:09 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

I’ve made no secret of my liking for Watson Workspace. Recently the first part of integration between Watson Workspace and Connections Cloud has gone live. This is integration from Connections Cloud to Watson Workspace. The details are in the IBM Knowledge Center. Currently this comprises two areas of integration.

Quick tip: run your Cloudant data everywhere with CouchDb  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/10/18, 11:31 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

I moved our HR Assistant application to a Spring boot to run everywhere, but the data was still stored in a Cloudant database running on IBM Cloud. No problem, but not that flexible. So I was looking for a way to to store the data somewhere with minimum impact.

Setup command line tools to work with IBM Cloudant  

By Kenio Carvalho | 5/6/18, 7:42 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Command line tools are always welcome. Today i need to setup my MAC to work with IBM Cloudant

A small open source project: Cloudant REST API - elstar IT  

By Frank van der Linden | 5/2/18, 7:54 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

I got an idea to provide a Cloudant REST API, with the same endpoints of the Domino API but storing everything in Cloudant or CoucheDb. Which results in a Spring Boot application. All the endpoints of the Domino REST API are available in this new REST API.

Watson Assistant Outside US  

By Paul Withers | 4/16/18, 12:12 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Over the last few months I’ve been digging further into Watson Assistant (previously Watson Conversation). If you’ve watched my OpenNTF contributions, that’s apparent from the XPages library I put up there which wraps the Watson Developer Cloud Java SDK.

IBM Think 2018 Highlights for Developers  

By Niklas Heidloff | 3/23/18, 10:17 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week IBM hosted the Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas which is IBM’s flagship conference that combines previous conferences like InterConnect and World of Watson. Below is a list of announcements and news that I, as a developer, like most.

Presentation how to create Alexa Skills with IBM Watson  

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/2/18, 3:52 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week there was a webinar Create Alexa skills with Watson Conversation where I was supposed to present. However since I couldn’t make it, my colleague Mark Sturdevant jumped in on a short notice and did a great job. You can watch the recording, read the pattern documentation and read the slides.

When to use Serverless? When to use Kubernetes?  

By Niklas Heidloff | 2/1/18, 8:20 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

A question that I get asked very often these days is: Should I use Serverless or Kubernetes to build cloud native applications? Both computing options have pros and cons and it depends on your needs which option you should choose.

Istio: Part 5 - Introduction to Kubernetes  

By John Jardin | 1/23/18, 5:54 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

In my previous article, I provided a high level overview of Containerization and how it compares to Virtualization. In this article I want to introduce an extremely powerful platform by the name of Kubernetes. By now, we should have a fair grasp on Containerization and Microservices.

Node-RED – Part 4: Understanding the Node-RED Editor  

By John Jardin | 1/10/18, 1:28 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Welcome to part 4 of my Up and Running with Node-RED video series. In Part 3 I showed you how to setup a Node-RED runtime on one’s local machine. In this video tutorial, I explain the Node-RED editor in detail, providing you with everything you need to know to make the most of designing simple/advanced flows in your browser.

Integrating Applications without writing Code  

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/14/17, 8:41 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

IBM App Connect is an IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) to connect different applications without having to write code. Similarly to IFTTT users are typically business users or citizen developers from line of business departments. App Connect provides currently roughly 50 connectors to integrate applications like Salesforce, SAP, Slack and Gmail.

Node-RED – Part 3: Setup Node-RED on local machine - Bleeding Code  

By John Jardin | 11/10/17, 4:06 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Welcome to part 3 of my Up and Running with Node-RED video series. In Part 2 I showed you how to setup a Node-RED runtime on IBM Cloud (aka IBM Bluemix). In this video tutorial, I take you through a step by step process on how to setup a Node-RED runtime on your local machine.

Node-RED – Part 2: Setup Node-RED on IBM Cloud - Bleeding Code  

By John Jardin | 11/10/17, 12:07 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Welcome to part 2 of my Up and Running with Node-RED video series. In Part 1 I provided an introduction to the series as well as a basic understanding of Node-RED. In this video tutorial, I take one through a step by step process on how to setup a Node-RED runtime on IBM Cloud (aka IBM Bluemix).

Node-RED - Part 1: Introduction to Video Series - Bleeding Code  

By John Jardin | 11/10/17, 12:05 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Welcome to Part 1 of my “Up and Running with Node-RED” video series. I’ve been planning this for the longest time and finally at the point of getting it released. Over the next few days I will be releasing a number of video tutorials on how to get up and running with Node-RED, both on your local environment and in the cloud.

How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript  

By Niklas Heidloff | 10/16/17, 12:11 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week Ansgar Schmidt and I gave a session at Codemotion How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript. Below are the slides with screenshots of our demos. We demonstrated how to write a Node.js application that uses Botkit to connect with Slack and that uses IBM Watson Conversation as natural language processing service.

Node-RED Samples for IBM Watson IoT Hackathon  

By Niklas Heidloff | 9/11/17, 7:31 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently I gave an one hour webinar to help developers to prepare for a hackathon related to IBM Watson IoT. I demonstrated Node-RED and coded live some sample flows.

Notes, Domino, The Cloud and Performance  

By Paul Withers | 8/24/17, 9:44 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Over the last month or so, I’ve been working on an application that pushes performance quite a bit. Last week I published a blog post about aspects of developing for performance. I’ll be writing a future blog post (maybe more than one) on the approaches I’ve taken for performance. But in this blog post I want to take a step back and discuss why I had to address performance, even after quite a bit of optimisation from the initial development.

Accessing Bluemix Services from Client-side Web Applications  

By Niklas Heidloff | 8/7/17, 6:45 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Bluemix is IBM’s cloud platform to build and host applications which can leverage more than 100 services, for example databases and cognitive services. The services provide APIs which require credentials. Applications which are hosted on Bluemix as Cloud Foundry apps or Docker containers can access these credentials from environment variables. This article describes how to invoke Bluemix services from client-side web applications.

OpenSky Computing  

By Christian Guedemann | 6/26/17, 10:04 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In today’s world, everybody is talking about the Cloud. If people talk about Cloud, they are talking in the most case about the location where data are processed and stored. In the mean time, while the “common” people are adopting the concept of Cloud Computing, Fog Computing or Edge Computing is the new upcoming term.

IoT The Next Big Thing For Application Development?  

By Red Pill Now | 5/4/17, 2:59 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I consider myself fortunate that my career has coincided with the rise of the computer as a business tool. Over that time I have seen a series of break-out technologies that have significantly changed the way computers have not only solved business needs but also transformed that way businesses can work.

My take on IBM Connect 2017  

By Frank van der Linden | 2/27/17, 11:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM Connect went to the west coast of the USA, to the famous Moscone Center in the middle of San Francisco. Last week I have attended and spoken at IBM Connect. Here are some thoughts about the event.

Lotus Evangelist: Me? At a Hackathon? Lead a team? What?  

By Keith Brooks | 1/31/17, 8:58 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I submitted a topic for Alan Hamilton's IBM Connect Hackathon which takes place the day before the event. It was accepted, my team "Domino Tweets" is good to go! Our Motto : Stay at the pub longer, we'll tweet you if we need you, love your Domino Server!

Websocket overview/tutorial video  

By Csaba Kiss | 1/30/17, 4:09 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I promised an overview video of the websocket enabled XPage application that we created during the websocket tutorial series. Here is a 30-minute detailed explanation how the application works. I hope you enjoy it!

Project Spotlight: HR Assistant  

By OpenNTF | 1/23/17, 2:35 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last year OpenNTF jointly hosted an ICS development contest with IBM with a difference: there had to be a team involved. The winners were Frank van der Linden and Frederic Dehedin. The application covered a variety of technologies, including Bluemix, Cloudant, and Watson. It also used the Jackson JSON Mapper Frank also submitted to OpenNTF and which has been covered on this blog before.