Tony is a Geek

Using "Watson Conversation Speech to Text" to control a simple physical IoT device It has been a couple of months since I did anything "exciting", I just noticed this great developerWorks recipe and thought, "Hey, I've got to share that, it's pretty awesome!". So, CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ARTICLE It also contains the code to get you up & running, see section (6) at the bottom of the page.

Use IBM's Personality Insights API to analyze traits shared between two Twitter users. I don't do Twitter, so, it's of no use to me, but hey, you might find it useful? CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE OR CLICK HERE

Fancy having a quick run through of setting up IBM MobileFirst Platform Server Foundation v8 and having a working app as a starter for ten?  Then look no further. Here's a Slides.com presentation of how I made this work for me:

I am absolutely, in no way, making any implications that I have anything to do with this type of technology, but I thought this was a good article about "Tomorrows World" getting closer to today: CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE This is the sort of technology for cities, that a society that I would like to live in, could use to help them go about their day, without the risk that some neanderthal uggs decide they are going to trash/abuse and ruin it for everyone.... maybe, Japan is finally calling to me?  ;-)

So, you've setup your IBM MobileFirst Platform Server UAT/TEST/INT environment and now you want to perform some Performance Testing to see how much load your MFP Servers can take before failing?... Then you start the cycle of tuning, tweaking, enhancing and squeezing to get the best performance for your specific environment... But, what tools should you use? How should you go about doing performing this task?  Well, you could Google/Search on the interwebs and find some information that may or may not help you OR you could follow my guide below: CLICK HERE FOR AN INDEPTH WALKTHROUGH OF SETTING THIS UP YOURSELF Full credits go to Nir Grande and his original Blog post about this subject, I hope I've just enhanced the explanation for people who are applying the setup themselves.

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A few months back I started a little experimental project with a Bluemix Watson Dialog service . Whilst this was great, it lacked a UI method of manipulating the XML file that runs the service. I got my propellor hat out and set about rectifying that.  Here's what I came up with. If you want to know more about it, you know what to do...... : CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

My Oculus Rift arrived today: Pretty awesome, but I don't have a Windows PC powerful enough (or with a good enough graphics card) to use it.  shame.  Guess I'll stick to the Samsung GearVR for a while longer :-D

A really cool 6 minute video showing a potential future with Augmented Reality: CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

A short while back I was surfing good old eBay, when I stumbled over a Minitel machine. After doing a bit of checking on wikipedia , I found out that it was an old 1980s machine that was the Internet before the Internet....but they only switched off the service in July 2012! It involved you dialing up a phone number, connecting your phone to the device and then using the keyboard and special orange function keys to navigate around. It looks to be like a Prestel / Teletext / Ceefax / CompuServe type of "internet".  Remember those days :-)  If you're from the US, then think early days AOL (before the free CDs). Anyway, I happen to have won a bid and the nice snug little device arrived at my humble abode waiting for me to do something useful with it.  First of all, I was surprised that it actually worked!  It powered on and everything!  I say, "everything"...as it just sat there with a blinking cursor and didn't really do anything at all.  Oh and ther...