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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:

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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MobileFirst Platform Server v7.1 running on a Raspberry Pi 2.... Yes, I just did that.  Well, truth be told, I started it back in September 2014 with Worklight v6.2... I know this because I just got around to re-configuring my little collection of Raspberry Pis to use the "new" WiFi router settings.... and upon poking around one of them I noticed a /wlp folder.  It looked like I had gotten quite far, but not quite got it working....and then moved onto doing something else... ... I also noticed I had a Raspberry Pi 2 that I was just using as a Webcam motion detector, which was a bit of a waste really....so I thought, "why not!?!" CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WALK-THROUGH INSTRUCTIONS ON INSTALLING A FULL BLOWN ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING MOBILEFIRST PLATFORM SERVER WITH APPLICATION CENTER (might get around to the Operational Analytics setup tomorrow) I know...exciting stuff :-D  I really know how to live. On a more serious geeky note, once you get to understan...

Whilst GUIs are great and have become the "norm" for most people, inside and outside of IT, there are still some things that certain IT ( system admins ) prefer to do from the command line. Mostly, these are repeated tasks that they can script or automate, passing parameter variables as needed.  This means they can spend more of their valuable time scanning twitter or f**ebook or reddit ( only kidding, they have much more valuable things to be spending their time on....like VR research! ) With this in mind the question comes up quite frequently: " can we script that? " With MobileFirst Platform Server, you have the ability to run ANT scripts to manage deploying your runtime .war files into Liberty Profile and even WebSphere Application Server.  This is usually fine for developers to run these tasks when they need to, but mostly they have no real idea of what is happening behind the scenes.  All is great, if it all works fine.  If for some reason you get a BUI...

IBM Bluemix allows you to build all sorts of Mobile apps much quicker and leaner than if you were to start from scratch. See for yourself what building Mobile Apps using Bluemix is all about. With a few clicks and some lines of code, you are able to: manage push notification subscriptions authenticate users monitor app usage store and sync your app data (offline to online) from your client code run custom app logic in the cloud get indoor location from beacons, wife and small clients trigger actions with indoor location information gain insights with customer interactions add natural language and image recognition to your app to make it personal Once, you've got yourself up to speed with the architecture and how you can now call Bluemix Services from your Mobile app, you might want to see some more in-depth examples of how to use more of the Bluemix services. Fortunately, there is a website that now offers you just that.   Bluemix Demo Assets .  Check i...

I've been meaning to upload this for a while now.  Today, I'll finally get around to it, mainly for my own reference, but also to possibly help other people out. The scenario: 1) You are asked to make a demo application... 2) ...in as short a time as possible... 3) ...in a pressured environment... 4) ...did I mention "they" want it all finished 2hours before you even started You get the picture.  Nowadays, just because we have Design thinking and wonderful ways of quizzing a business user on how they feel and what they want a Mobile application to do and using all the Agile techniques you can throw at a buzzword bingo board, it still comes down to the basic element.  A coder, then has to code something and writing code takes time. I totally agree that making a prototype / mockup / wireframe app can be simple / easy / quick, but making a "real" application is not so, as there is so much more that you have to construct. Now, in previous coder w...

IBM MobileFirst Platform explained on 1 presentation slide by  Curtis Miles This is a simple run through of the Anatomy of the MobileFirst Platform chart that is typically used to describe all the things that the MobileFirst Platform does.

Here's my latest article on Installing MobileFirst Platform Server v7.1 on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.  (Including Operational Analytics and Application Center). If you've ever installed MFP using WLP  you'll realise that it's very easy to do and very simple to get up and running.  In fact, if you've installed Eclipse and downloaded the MFP plug-in from the Marketplace, you will be using WLP under the covers. Whilst MFP and WLP is great for development, if you want to go BIG, you need to install onto WAS ND .  Whilst this sounds simple enough, just replacing one Application Server for another, the difference between WLP and WAS ND is quite large and the skillsets are very different. Follow through the steps I take you through in this set of Pages (with VIDEOS!) and let's de-mystify installing MFP onto WAS ND. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WALK THROUGH

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Here's a great article from Ray: Working with Ionic, Box, and IBM MobileFirst Summary = Box is a cloud storage provider much like Dropbox, but also provides some pretty cool workflow services as well.  While it is still early, you'll soon see some interesting collaborations between IBM and Box.  Ray, sets out to see how easy it would be to integrate Box into a Hybrid Mobile application using both Ionic and IBM MobileFirst. Check the article out , it includes a Video too: