You & Me

Quick introductions ...

Me

• IBM Cloud Development Advocate
• Lawyer & Counsellor by training
• @notessensei
• http://www.wissel.net

You*

• Can write code (or like watching others write)
• Have signed up here: https://ibm.biz/BdE6ZA
• Have visited http://bit.ly/nusbluemix
• Brought gear to code

*or came for the Club Mate®

What languages do you use?

• JavaScript     
• Java
• PHP
• Phython
• Ruby

• Objective C / Dart
• dotNet
• R / Haskel / Erlang
• Cobol
• other exotic ones

What's happening in software

• Accellerating life cycles
• Mobile everywhere
• Cloud Cloud Cloud

Gartner 2010

Gartner 2013

Cloud is a mindset

Cloud is to infrastructure what Agile is to development

How long does it take?

• It takes minutes to write a code
• It takes hours to deploy
• It takes days to configure a runtime
• It takes weeks (or month) to procure new servers

Composable Cloud

• What you need
• When you need it
• Where you need it
• Free to try

Can they be wrong?

6 large SI signed up to

IBM Bluemix dedicated

within the month of its announcement

Introduction to Bluemix

• The product
• The praise
• The competition

IBM Bluemix

Same but different

• Run anywhere: public, private, local
• Open standards: CloudFoundry
• Open catalogue

Open Catalogue

Contributions from:

• IBM
• 3rd party
• Community
• YOU

The tools of choice

It's a Shakespeare*

* As you like it!

Born in the cloud

• hub.jazz.net

  • GIT
  • Team Concert
  • Continious delivery

Inside your IDE

For real developers

Command Line !

cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
cf login -u john.doe@yourorg.com
cf target -o john.doe@yourorg.com -s dev

cf apps

cf push yourapp -n yourapp

cf app yourapp
cf start/stop yourapp
cf logs yourapp [--recent]

A word about GIT

• Defacto standard for Version Control
• Linux Kernel Development
  • Linus Thorwald
  • Fully distributed
• http://www.atlassian.com/git
• SourceTree

Watson

• Cognitive computing
• Yes / No / Maybe
• Will beat you in Jeopardy

Watson services*

• Concept Expansion
• Concept Insights
• Language Identification
• Machine Translation
• Message Resonance

• Personality Insights

• Questions and Answer

• Speech to Text
• Text to Speech
• Tradeoff Analytics
• Visual Recognition
• Visualization Rendering

• https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/services.html
• http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/doc/

*more to come

Getting started

Machine translation

https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/MachineTranslation/index.html

String post = "rt=text&sid=" + URLEncoder.encode(sid, "UTF-8") +
    "&txt=" + URLEncoder.encode(text, "UTF-8");
  HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)new URL(endpoint).openConnection();
  conn.connect();

Hands on

• Sign on to IBM Bluemix
• Explore
• Build a demo application
• Ask questions

Your turn!

Objective: Bluemix RECON

• Prerequisites:
  • Signed up? https://ibm.biz/BdE6ZA
  • Opened in a tab? http://bit.ly/nusbluemix
  • Another tab: https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/

• Create a sample application

  • Your choice or a guided sample
  • https://hub.jazz.net/docs/all/#tut

• Ask questions in the forum http://bit.ly/nusbluemix

• Talk to your neighbour

Questions?

Tool recap

• Your programming language
  • Compiler
  • IDE
  • Tools (bower, grunt/gulp, yeoman)
• GIT
• Cloudfoundry CLI
• Swagger (if you do documentation)
• Your IDEA

Lunch

Thereafter: IOT & more code!

IoT

• Device simulator, check the community
• IBM Node-RED http://nodered.org/
• HTTP • TCP • UDP • MQTT
• IoT Foundation: https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/

Demo

This is where an IBMer franatically clicks around!

Shiok?

Questions?

Your Mission

should you accept it...

Your mission

• Come up with an idea for a Bluemix application
• Form a team (at least you, yourself and your genious)
• Document your application in the NUS Bluemix day community
• Wakeup your idea

  2 weeks deadline

Questions?