Conversations on software, technology, and creativity
Scott Laningham interviews developerWorks authors and editors as well as thought leaders in a variety of fields. Past guests have included Grady Booch, Tim Berners-Lee, John "Maddog" Hall, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Jimmy Wales, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, and Carol Jones.
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Freed, Gering, and Schmidt on building virtual appliances with the Open Virtualization Format Toolkit IBMers Andrew Freed, Mike Gering, and Stephen Schmidt, talk about virtual appliances, the Open Virtualization Standard, and the Eclipse-based OVF Tookit.
John Hogan and Colin Harrison on smart cities John Hogan, Senior Technical Staff Member, Smart City Command Center Architect, and Colin Harrison, IBM Corporate Strategy director for Smart City, talk about smart cities -- what they are, how to get there, and the skills developers need to take advantage of related opportunities.
Abrams, Zetie, and Kersten on first fruits from the OSLC Three individuals who are helping to drive the cross-industry Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative talk about the first year of the OSLC and what is in the just released spec. Joining are Steve Abrams, lead architect of the OSLC; Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and the lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project; and Carl Zetie, a former Forrester analyst who is now a senior IBM strategist driving Rational's ALM strategy.
Drew Clark of IBM Venture Capital Group on clean tech Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group, talks about clean tech and why it is one of the hot areas of interest for investing. He touches on what IBM is doing to help U.S. entrepreneurs participate in federal stimulus funding around smart grid, and on broader developer opportunities.
Voltaic System's Jeff Crystal on solar backpacks and green supply chains Jeff Crystal talks about making cool solar products at Voltaic Systems and working on an efficient, green supply chain. Before joining Voltaic Systems to run operations, Jeff was on management teams at the telephony and grassroots technology company, Spoken Hub and the Java software development environment, NetBeans.
Facebook's Josh Elman on the platform Josh Elman is a Platform Program Manager at Facebook where he focuses on new initiatives and programs for developers on the Facebook Platform. He talks about what it's like to work for Facebook, how FB is changing developer expectations for corporate applications, what Facebook Connect is, developer opportunities, etc.
Ami Dewar and John Muller on My developerWorks design factors Ami Dewar and John Muller of the developerWorks advanced design team talk about some of the human design factors and testing they've been doing with new features rolling out with My developerWorks site customization.
On inventing, with the man behind the Brickley Engine Inventor Mike Brickley talks about his ideas for making the internal combustion engine far more efficient, as a transition to next gen engines, and shares thoughts on inventing and on the urgency for forward-looking thought. Brickley is an independent inventor in Austin, Texas. He's had a life-long interest in engines and inventing, and has designed and built a number of steam engines, internal combustion engines, and Stirling engines.
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Freed, Gering, and Schmidt on building virtual appliances with the Open Virtualization Format Toolkit
John Hogan and Colin Harrison on smart cities
Michael Lee Stallard on the importance of connection cultures
Abrams, Zetie, and Kersten on first fruits from the OSLC
Drew Clark of IBM Venture Capital Group on clean tech
Ted Neward on Scala and Twitter
Facebook's Josh Elman on the platform
Ami Dewar and John Muller on My developerWorks design factors
On inventing, with the man behind the Brickley Engine
