Getting Started with Bluemix

WHY IS IBM BLUEMIX IDEAL FOR YOUR HACKATHON APPS?

Compose and host your web app or mobile backend in the cloud rapidly.  IBM Bluemix provides an open standards-based cloud platform and key platform APIs to enable rapid assembly of interactive applications for mobile iOS and Android devices, web, Internet-of-Things, Watson, etc.  Within the Bluemix platform, developers like you will find a range of open source and third-party languages, APIs and services like Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP, Python, GO and more. You can focus on ideation and move easily to code.  With Bluemix’s abstraction of the infrastructure layer, you can use services like Mobile Data, Push, Data Cache, Analytics Warehouse and Cloudant NoSQL Database to rapidly  build, deploy, manage and scale new applications. Of course, you can bring your own runtimes and use cf command line interface.

HOW TO GET STARTED

STEP 1:  Sign up for IBM Bluemix at ibm.biz/HackBluemix STEP 2:  Watch short introductory video: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-bluemix-dbarnes-ny/index.html and longer getting started with Bluemix video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtBdbaCQV8A STEP 3:  Pick your favorite languages, APIs and Services to use a Get Started Lab:                                                          Language/API/Service Get Started Lab  Self Paced Class to Get Started from Avnet Academy  ibm.biz/AvnetATX  Watson Developer Cloud Demo Labs Watson Image Analysis Watson Personalized Recommendations Watson Conversational Insights  ibm.biz/LabWatson1  ibm.biz/LabWatsonIA  ibm.biz/LabWatsonPR  ibm.biz/LabWatsonCI Watson Question and Answer  ibm.biz/LabWatson2 Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions to Explore  ibm.biz/LabIOTTutorial Internet of Things (IoT) Conected Car Lab ibm.biz/LabIoTtutorial or use pdf IoT Simulated Temperature Sensor Lab  ibm.biz/LabIOTOR Python, Raspberry Pi, Cloudant  ibm.biz/LabPyPi  Mobile Cloud and Cloudant  Hello World  ibm.biz/helloworldmobile PHP, AngularJS, MySQL and Nutritionix API  ibm.biz/LabPhPapi Ruby on Rails, Internet of Things, Arduino  ibm.biz/LabRoRIoT Ruby On Sinatra  ibm.biz/LabRoS1 Node.js, Express, Apache CouchDB, Cloudant, Nano, jTable  ibm.biz/LabNodejs Java, Weka, an Open Source Machine Learning tool, and Analytics for Warehouse service  ibm.biz/LabJava1 Building an Android Mobile App using Mobile Cloud Boilerplate  ibm.biz/LabAnd1 Extending Mobile App with Push Notification  ibm.biz/LabPush1 Build an iOS 8 App and the MobileFirst Platform  ibm.biz/Labios1 Android App using AppScan Mobile Analyzer to quickly scan for security vulnerabilities and fix them  ibm.biz/ATTandroidscan  and Quickstart ibm.biz/ATTandroidscanqs  Bluemix Node-Red App for Twitter to show Watson Personality Trait  ibm.biz/LabStefTweetNodeWatson  List of Demos for Bluemix, sortable and searchable  ibm.biz/bluemixdemos Technical Asset Name  URL/Mobile App Technical Asset Description SourceCode : Quick Start Guide Connected Home Automation App ibm.biz/ATTconnhome2 Uses Node.js runtime, Internet of Things boilerplate, Node-RED editor and MQTT protocol ibm.biz/ATTconnhome2qs Connected Car App Android Controller App ibm.biz/ATTconncar Uses Node.js runtime, GeoSpatial Analytics, Internet of Things boilerplate, Node-RED editor and MQTT protocol ibm.biz/ATTconncarqs1 ibm.biz/ATTconncarqs2 Home Automation App using Digital Life APIs ibm.biz/ATTconnhome1 Uses Node.js runtime and Digital Life APIs ibm.biz/ATTconnhome1qs Build a Fitbit Step Contest App ibm.biz/ATTfitbit Uses PHP, MySQL, Twitter and Twilio services with Fitbit ibm.biz/ATTfitbitqs STEP 4:  Like this page and Tweet with your brags, including #bluemix and/or #IBMWatson

MORE INFO

For IEEE and Watson Showcase digital Challenge, see http://ibm.biz/ieeewatson          See Press Release on Partnering with Universities to Train Next Generation of Cloud Developers, see http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47364.wss  Use Self-Paced Class from Avnet Services at http://ibm.biz/AvnetATX Apply for  IBM Cloud Startup Program and join the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program at http://ibm.biz/cloudplay Join BluemixU Ambassador Program for IBM Bluemix, using application at https://developer.ibm.com/students/bluemixambassadors/ Check out Developer Events around Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh or Silicon Valley Join Virtual Hackathons: Join in the First Responder Needs Challenge with Vencore at http://ibm.biz/firstresponderneeds Join in the Avnet Services Bluemix with Watson Hackathon 9/18-28, register now at http://Avnet.me/Hackathon Join in the Bluemixathon - Operational Rescue and Recovery Hackathon, now - Nov 11 at http://bluemixathon.devpost.com Nominate your Bluemix app for the IBM Students for a Smarter Planet Award at http://ibm.biz/students1000 IBM Design case study of IBM Bluemix at http://www.ibm.com/design/blog-iconic-bm.shtml Explore Job Opportunities with IBM? http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/un_university_recruiting.shtml and Watson at ibm.com/watsonjobs