Tony is a Geek

Okay, if you've been living in a cave or working in the backend of Denmark for the past week, you would have failed to notice the new Raspberry Pi has just launched and immediately sold-out! Check it out.... now , thanks to the size format it could be an Arduino replacement.  It's a lot more powerful and potentially is capable of doing a lot more for the IoT.  We'll see how it pans out and whether I can actually get my hands on one, or two....or three..... Now, randomly, PiHut will sell you one from £4 -> £18 depending on the SDCard size and Pimoroni will sell you one for £8 , but they don't mention SDCards. The only downfall I see is the lack of WiFi or BLE onboard, if they could have squeezed that in, then it would have been a killer-app, oh hang on, it's hardware, killer-hard, errr... killer-thing.  It would have been better.  :-)

So, you're a fan of using NodeRed, it's great for doing all sorted of IoT work. It's great.  But......well, it's running on your laptop and that kind of limits the usefulness beyond playing with things locally. Until now!  Now, you can deploy NodeRed to Bluemix .  Yep, that means you can run NodeRed in the Cloud.  Your IoT devices can communicate to the internet and interact with NodeRed.  Now, that makes it a lot more useful! CHECK OUT MORE HERE

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...

Continuing on from ArcTuRus v1.0 , here is ArcTuRus v1.1 Whilst it may seem like there were minor changes, it was actually more challenging than I had anticipated.  I also had far too many head scratching moments... CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE

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.

WAMP  is an open standard  WebSocket  subprotocol that provides two application messaging patterns in one unified protocol: Remote Procedure Calls  +  Publish & Subscribe Using WAMP you can build distributed systems out of application components which are  loosely coupled  and communicate in (soft)  real-time . CHECKOUT THE WAMP WEBSITE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF "WHY?"

Node Red Programming Guide! Do you want to get started programming Node-Red?  If so CHECK OUT THESE LECTURES. The Node RED programming Guide is a series of lectures designed to introduce you to Node-RED - the new visual programming tool for the IoT. It will take you from the basics right through to advanced Node-RED programming. It is targeted at two types of readers - those who are new to the IoT and want to quickly prototype IoT applications and those who are already familiar with the IoT who want to understand Node-RED. The guide is structured into three sections, sections 1 (Lectures 1-4) introduces Node-RED and walks through a series of examples to explain its programming model, its basic nodes/features and how it can be used to access a variety of real world data sources. We use a hosted cloud based version of Node-RED so that readers don't have to worry about the details of installing and managing Node-RED. Section 2 (Lectures 5-7) explores in more detail Node-RED...

nogotofail - sounds like a function I would write in some code when things go very wrong in my code (that would never happen, surely?!) Nogotofail is a network security testing tool designed to help developers and security researchers spot and fix weak TLS/SSL connections and sensitive cleartext traffic on devices and applications in a flexible, scalable, powerful way. It includes testing for common SSL certificate verification issues, HTTPS and TLS/SSL library bugs, SSL and STARTTLS stripping issues, cleartext issues, and more. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT GETTING STARTED and USING IT

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

Well, it's not available until 2016, but I want one for sure! CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE