Peering Inside a Criminal’s Mind using IBM Watson on Mon, Aug 24, 2015
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Tags bluemix node.js watson
With the recent shooting in South Carolina in reminds us that criminal’s can and will continue to harm people. They seem like random acts to most of us but to a criminal the acts make sense to them? No one can answer this question except the criminal. To peer inside a criminal’s would be next to impossible but what if there existed another way to peer inside their mind’s? This could be used to try to identify patterns or personality traits that exist.
Deploying your Meteor app to Cloud Foundry and Bluemix on Wed, Aug 5, 2015
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Tags bluemix meteor mongodb websockets
Meteor is a pretty powerful and cool framework for developing modern webapps all in Javascript. It provides some really cool things as a modern UI, responsive code that works on a desktop and a mobile device, and some really slick features with websockets with client and server side rendering.
I heard about Meteor mid-2014 but it peaked my interest last week when I was at a customer and a developer at the customer was building a Meteor app and they were asking how to run it on Bluemix.
Zero Downtime Deployment with the CF Autopilot Plugin on Fri, Jun 19, 2015
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Zero down time deployments are a must for any Internet app running at scale. Without the use of zero down time deployments, you would have to take down your application even just for a fraction of a second but in that fraction of a second you could lose a transaction or a purchase from a customer. This is not acceptable anymore. Some people like to call these apps cloud based apps, which I think is fine, but I’d rather call them Internet scale or born on the cloud apps.
IoT Python app with a Raspberry Pi and Bluemix on Thu, Apr 2, 2015
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Tags bluemix flask iot python raspberry pi
This is an extension/continuation from the blog post on how to create a basic Python webapp. In this tutorial we are going to go through how to integrate a Python Flask webapp in Bluemix with the Internet of Things Foundation in Bluemix with a Raspberry Pi and two sensors on the Raspberry Pi. The tutorial also uses Twilio to interact with the Raspberry Pi.
So what does this look like? Here is a simple architecture diagram.
Simple Hello World Python App using Flask on Mon, Mar 30, 2015
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Tags bluemix flask python
Hey Y’all! Jeff here again, today we are going to be going through some really simple steps to get started deploying a simple hello world python app using Flask on Bluemix.
Flask is an awesome and really lightweight framework in Python to create powerful webapps. We are going to use it make a really simple hello world app in Python though.
In this post we are going to go through the written instructions on how to do it but if you prefer watching a video check out the video below.
Tips for Migrating Ruby on Rails Applications to Bluemix on Thu, Mar 5, 2015
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Who doesn’t love some Ruby? Bluemix definitely loves Ruby on Rails! Sometimes running a Ruby on Rails app can be a little tricky, so I have included some tips and tricks for migrating your Ruby on Rails app to Bluemix. They will include:
Required gems Code tweaks Accessing external databases Deploying your app Required gems If you are using PostgreSQL you need to include pg. Sqlite3 is included to get local development working as well.
Control home devices with Bluemix Internet of Things (Part 2) on Tue, Feb 17, 2015
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Tags bluemix cloudant node.js iot raspberry pi
Part 2: Configuring the Raspberry Pi This is a continuation of Part 1 of Controlling home devices with Bluemix Internet Of Things If you haven’t read Part 1, please do that first…
In Part 1 we got the electrical work out of the way. We wired up the relay’s and connected the circuit’s. In this part of the 3 part series we will configure the Raspberry Pi to control the relay’s that we wired up in part 1.
Control home devices with Bluemix Internet of Things on Fri, Feb 6, 2015
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The number of Internet connected devices is growing dramatically, it is expected to increase from 15 billon devices in 2015 to 40 billion devices in 2020. These devices make up something called the Internet of Things. These devices can be controlled remotely and interconnected.
While a lot of these devices can be connected to the Internet, most of them are “dumb” devices right now. To turn these “dumb” devices into smart devices you can use the Internet of Things to connect them to the cloud.
How Watson and Bluemix see the State of the Union on Wed, Jan 21, 2015
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The State of the Union, a live broadcast that many Americans historically use as a tool to form opinions about the current political system, and gain insight from their Commander in Chief into the transparency of a system of checks and balances. What is more interesting is the thoughts and underlying feelings between the State of the Union. If we could figure out how the President is feeling or portraying himself, could we infer how the President will schedule and work with legislation and policy for the rest of the year?
Microservices in Bluemix on Mon, Jan 19, 2015
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Tags amqp microservices bluemix mqtt node.js websockets
Monolith apps are no more. The age of the monolith is over. It wasn’t that long ago that companies and developers (myself included) were deploying one giant app that did everything. The app would serve all your static files, front-end HTML and CSS and Javascript, act as your REST API, serve as your data persistance tier, handles sessions, handle logins, and do security for your app. The list could keep going on and on.