Tony is a Geek

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...

Build end-to-end apps using Swift with Kitura.  Kitura is a new, modular, package-based web framework written in the Swift language. Put simply, if you write iOS apps using Swift for iPhone/iPad, then you can now write Swift code Server-side.  Personally, I think I'll stick with writing JavaScript server-side as I've been doing that since 2001 and I'm not a hipster... >CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT HOW TO SET THIS UP ON YOUR MAC< >AND RUN THROUGH A HELLO WORLD PROJECT<

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A Raspberry Pi3....an old radio/speaker box... time to make a "portable" music player, that not only plays local music, but streams from Spotify etc..etc... and is controlled from a web-app that you control from your web-browser (running on any device you fancy) CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO SET THIS UP

If you've heard about StrongLoop or IBM API Connect or the new API economy and fancy having a go yourself, follow my guide to getting started. CLICK HERE FOR AN INTRO & WALK-THROUGH