Tony is a Geek

I thought I would do a write-up and share how to use the Wikitude SDK for Android to allow you to see how awesome Augmented Reality is from your phone. Here's a little YouTube video showing the outcome of the slides presentation above: any questions, feel free to ask.

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:

Official IBM press-release Ionic press-release Yes, yes, yes..... this is several weeks late.  What can I say, I've been "busy"  :-) The good news is, IBM has this product called IBM MobileFirst (I may have posted a thing or two about it?!) that helps support making, managing and securing the back-end services of your Mobile applications.....and Ionic Creator is just an awesome front-end product for building the Mobile application itself. Officially putting these two things together is great news (I've been doing it un-officially for quite some time, so it's great that it's now official news).

A quick sample video on React Native integrated with the MobileFirst Platform Foundation

Create high-performance mobile UIs with Famo.us Level up to a native-code user experience for JavaScript apps With the Famo.us platform, mobile web UIs written in JavaScript can be as compelling as native-code implementations. Work through this article's examples to find out how Famo.us helps you easily create a high-performance user experience in your mobile apps. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-famous/index.html

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Whilst building my ACE! app - I needed to be able to upload images for the events / presentations / speakers and attendees. I thought, hey, that's simple, we've been doing this on normal web-servers for decades, I'll just write a server-side php page (a couple of lines of code) that saves the posted files to a folder and then I'll know the URL to reference them.  Sorted! I should have it all finished before the kettle has finished boiling for my cup of tea. Then I pondered for a bit.  How does this now work in the PaaS world (Clouds like IBM Bluemix, Google AppEngine, Amazon, that Microsoft one, etc...).  Ah, not such a simple solution now.  But a challenge.  Whilst drinking my cup of tea, I then set about making this work on IBM Bluemix. Here's a Slides.com presentation of how I made this work for me:

I just (re)discovered that I made these gauges for the hot-rod two years ago: I'm glad I stashed the Arduino C code on a git repository, as I am now in a position with the hot-rod to be able to connect the sensors up to the code and get accurate readings now.  I've also got to figure out how to house the gauges and the Teensy v3 behind the dashboard.  Minor details, I'm sure... Checkout progress of the hot-rod at TheAlbatrossHotRod website.

Whilst having an end of year tidy up in the 'man cave', I found a couple of boxes with some " old " PC based computers contained within.  I had a couple of Gateway2000 Handbook 486 devices and a Fujitsu B-2154 touchscreen laptop.  I can recall, why I got them in the first place.  They are all small laptop/netbook sized, don't weigh very much and could be re-purposed for other things.  Well, that's probably what I thought when I first got them....did some stuff with them and then put them on a box for " coming back to them later on ". Well, " later on " just happened to be during the week between xmas and new year......