Johnathan Ward

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

By John Ward / March 20, 2015 / 65 Comments

This is the history of my experience trying to make money online over the past 10 years or so. This is by far the longest post I've ever personally written and it's more of an autobiography than a blog post....

IBM Watson Explorer

By John Ward / April 6, 2015 / 1 Comment

I'm going to talk a little bit about IBM Watson Explorer (WEX). A few people have contacted me about what I do at my day job as a Watson Explorer Consultant. Since this is my personal site I don't usually...

I Made an Automated Pancakeswap Prediction Bot

By John Ward / October 14, 2022 / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I got the idea to try to automatically bid on Pancakeswap's Prediction game. So I decided to try to build a Pancakeswap Prediction bot to take on the task. I did this just to learn about...

My 2022 Recap and 2023 Plans

By John Ward / January 13, 2023 / 0 Comments

I haven't been posting to my blog that often, but I wanted to recap 2022 and lay out some of my plans for 2023. Overall, 2022 was a pretty good year for me, and I made some progress on business...

Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search

By John Ward / May 12, 2020 / 0 Comments

What is IBM Watson

By John Ward / July 24, 2020 / 0 Comments

There is a lot of confusion about what exactly IBM Watson is? I'm going to try to clear that up a little bit in this blog post. I'll go into the history of IBM Watson and what IBM is doing...

One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…

By John Ward / March 9, 2015 / 12 Comments

... and I have no idea what it is. I used to blog actively on my tutorial site, TeamTutorials. In it's prime the site would see over 100k page views per month. Even in the prime the site barely met...

Are Products the Road to Prosperity?

By John Ward / May 13, 2015 / 1 Comment

A few weeks ago a wrote a somewhat popular post about my past experiences trying to make money online. I went through the ups and downs of working as an affiliate promoting other people's products. At the conclusion of the...

What’s the Future of XRP

By John Ward / September 20, 2021 / 0 Comments

The XRP token was a fast-growing cryptocurrency until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against the parent company, Ripple, back in December of 2020. This left many people scrambling to dump their XRP holdings and several...

IBM Watson Explorer Connector List

By John Ward / March 4, 2020 / 0 Comments

IBM Watson Discovery Fundamentals Training

I’m excited to announce that I’ve released my first course on Udemy titled IBM Watson Discovery Fundamentals. This course is designed to give business and technical users a good high-level overview of the IBM Watson Discovery service. What is IBM Watson Discovery? IBM Watson Discovery is an advanced search and analytical tool that uses Natural … Continue reading IBM Watson Discovery Fundamentals Training

Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon Associates is one of the most popular affiliate programs around. Affiliate programs generally pay you when a user of your website commits some type of action. This might be a certain fee for a lead when a user signs up for the affiliated site or a percentage of commission on sales. Let’s take a … Continue reading Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Building Real Assets on the Web

Wow, it’s been way too long since I’ve posted anything on this blog. I feel like that’s about how I start every post. Today I read a great post by Nathan Barry called The Billion Dollar Blog. It’s basically about a bunch of different people turning huge blog following into real businesses. It got me … Continue reading Building Real Assets on the Web

What is IBM Watson

There is a lot of confusion about what exactly IBM Watson is? I’m going to try to clear that up a little bit in this blog post. I’ll go into the history of IBM Watson and what IBM is doing today with the Watson portfolio. As you may expect, IBM Watson has changed over the … Continue reading What is IBM Watson

Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search

Are you interested in IBM Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch? Recently, I had to do some comparisons between IBM Watson Explorer and Elasticsearch for a project. I spent some time going through the features of both platforms and found some interesting features and comparisons. For this comparison, I’m only looking at IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components … Continue reading Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search

Watson Explorer REST API Test Tool

One of the things many people don’t know about IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components is that it includes a robust REST API. There is also a nice tool built-in called API Runner that will assist you with creating API Calls. It’s very simple to get to this tool in the browser. Given the my admin … Continue reading Watson Explorer REST API Test Tool

Create a WEX AppBuilder Pop Over

How do you create a WEX AppBuilder Pop Over? One thing that I see people trying to do is to replicate the pop-over light-box function of Watson Explorer AppBuilder. Most of the time the custom code that people create doesn’t seem to function the same as the out-of-box lightbox. Fortunately, there are some helper functions … Continue reading Create a WEX AppBuilder Pop Over

Tweaking the Number of Matches for the Relevancy Algorithm in Watson Explorer

Today I ran into a rather shocking situation while debugging some query relevancy issues in Watson Explorer AppBuilder. Another IBM Watson developer and I noticed that some results with a higher amount of matching terms in them were being ranked lower than some documents with fewer matches. This appears to be the opposite of what … Continue reading Tweaking the Number of Matches for the Relevancy Algorithm in Watson Explorer

IBM Watson Explorer Connector List

IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components include many out-of-box connectors for various types of data sources including web, filesystems, shares, databases and content management systems. This allows Watson Explorer (WEX) to be a very versatile tool for ingesting and indexing from multiple data sources into a single search application. Here is a listing of the out-of-box … Continue reading IBM Watson Explorer Connector List

Reflections on the Past Few Years

I have really neglected this blog over the past few years. I’d really like to post more often but I’ve been dealing with some personal issues that haven’t helped. The end of the year is a time that many people reflect over the past year. I’m going to extend that a little bit. I’m going … Continue reading Reflections on the Past Few Years

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