Apr 19, 2019 | Are you a developer who likes gaming? Or a gamer who wants to expand your development skills? What if you could code and conquer a game at the same time? Introducing Rogue Cloud, a game where players around the globe play in real time and interact together in a shared, top-down 2D virtual world. But unlike a traditional game that you control with a game controller, keyboard, or mouse, you are actually writing code in Rogue Cloud to control your characters as they explore and interact with the game world. But watch out: your character is not alone in the…
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Apr 18, 2019 | Following the fire that devastated Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, IBM is seeking to activate developers around the world to dedicate their time and talent to its restoration. Notre Dame is not the only historic building vulnerable to catastrophe. From Westminster Hall to the Taj Mahal, many iconic sites across the world are at risk. We believe technology can help make them more resilient, and in the coming weeks, we'll be calling on developers to build solutions that could help. Bob Lord, IBM Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications and Developer Ecosystems, shared the following statement about IBM's commitment: IBMers around the…
Apr 17, 2019 | Team IBM was at Hacknext InsurTech hackathon and conference from Thursday March 7th to Saturday March 9th, in Munich. Across three days, 110 hackers came together to take on a variety of real-life challenges facing the industry. As technology sponsor, we had a team of experts ready to assist the hackers with their projects. Most of the challenges revolved around modernizing or making the insurance industry more accessible. A fantastic location for ideation and collaboration. Each team was required to address a minimum of one of the following challenges. The 4 challenges: Future of Digital Bancassurance Rethinking Retirement (R)evolution of…
Apr 16, 2019 | Extracting usable data from various API endpoints can be tricky. I faced this problem recently when I wanted to write a script to gather information about some users and repositories on GitHub. In the past, I'd used GitHub's RESTful API, and pieced my data together from a slew of endpoints. Even though my knowledge of GraphQL was limited, I decided to take the learning opportunity and try GitHub's GraphQL API. In this blog post, I describe how I got started configuring my development environment for GraphQL syntax validation, schema validation, and highlighting. My first step was to fire some test…
Apr 12, 2019 | Welcome back to the second publication in our Call For Code Technology mini-series where I identify and talk about one of the six core technology focus areas within Call For Code. You'll learn about that technology, how to best use it on IBM Cloud™, and where to find the best resources to fuel your innovation. If you missed my first post about building Call for Code apps with IoT and Node-RED, you can find it here. First things first, if you haven't already, accept the Call for Code challenge and join our community. In Part 2 of this series, I'm…
Apr 11, 2019 | Last year, the IBM Developer Cloud and Blockchain content teams created KubeCoin, an experimental blockchain app that can be used at developer events to anonymously track an attendees' footsteps and convert them into virtual "KubeCoins" which they can redeem for prizes. Since then, the app has been used at 18 events in North America and Europe. I'm envious in that it was used quite a bit in Scandanavia last year. Participants who used it walked over 7 million steps and 5,000 km over 25 days of conferences. We had well over a thousand participants, and our idea was shared with…
Apr 09, 2019 | With almost 5,000 holes played by 80 - 90 players at the Masters, around 20,000 shots are scored and captured. The majority of the golf shots are acquired on video for distribution around the world. In most cases, the patron is only able to view those shots presented by the broadcaster on produced video channels. When this happens, a patron's favorite player might be overlooked and many of the other equally exciting moments occurring at the Masters could be missed. To assist with this issue, an artificial intelligence (AI) system built by IBM assigns an equal equity excitement score to…
Apr 07, 2019 | Natural disasters evoke scenes of destroyed infrastructure, darkened cities, and long lines for food and water. But what's less visible are the health issues that are exacerbated in the aftermath of these events. Former U.S. Congressional Delegate Donna Christensen of the US Virgin Islands has seen firsthand the widespread and long-lasting health effects of natural disasters, which go well beyond the initial injuries and traumas. "Our hospitals went down, so our hospital was really not functioning and we've been through that several times with hurricanes in the past," Christensen said. "People were evacuated, some without medical records, some with medical…
Apr 04, 2019 | Welcome to the Call for Code Technology Mini-Series where I'll identify and talk about one of the six core technology focus areas within Call for Code. You'll learn about that technology, how to best utilize it on IBM Cloud, and where to find the best resources to fuel your innovation. First things first: If you haven't already, accept the Call for Code challenge and join our community. In Part 1, I'm going to talk about IoT and Node-RED, and I'll explain how those two technologies can be easily tied together on IBM Cloud using the Watson™ IoT Platform. IoT explained…
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