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Talking Software as a Service with IBM and Martin Dawes Systems
In this seven-minute podcast, Dave Mitchell, IBM program director for Software as a Service, talks about current IBM focus on SaaS technical assistance and some short video offerings on developerWorks. Gary Steen, technology director for Martin Dawes Systems, an IBM partner, joins to talk about what his company is doing in the SaaS space. Then Mitchell and Steen talk about what the partnership has meant to both organizations.
11 Mar 2008

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Rob Crowther on planning a semantic Web site
Rob Crowther, a Web developer in London, joins us to preview his highlighted article on planning a semantic Web site.
04 Mar 2008

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How to rein in power-hogging data centers
In this 14-minute podcast, Dan Esty, one of the world's leading experts on corporate environmental strategy, and Dennis Quan, CTO of IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions, look at the explosion of power use by today's rapidly growing data centers. A recent EPA report estimated data centers use 1.5 percent of the total electricity generated in the United States — a figure that has doubled in the past five years and will double again by 2011 at an operating cost of $7.4 billion annually. The problem and solutions, including a smarter approach to IT, are discussed.
26 Feb 2008

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Sera Lewis on the new enterprise modernization sandbox for System z™
IBM Web strategist Sera Lewis introduces us to the new enterprise modernization sandbox for System z, which provides hands-on walk-throughs of common real-world scenarios, including enterprise application discovery, transformation, and reuse of mainframe assets. The scenarios provide examples of how to modernize applications running on the IBM System z platform.
26 Feb 2008

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Booch, Nackman, and Royce on IBM Rational at five years
Grady Booch, Lee Nackman, and Walker Royce discuss how the IBM acquisition of Rational has resulted in the refinement of Rational's focus, the expansion of IBM's software paradigm, the further embracing of open source and open standards, and the new Jazz platform.
19 Feb 2008

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Scott Ambler on Agile Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Scott Ambler is practice leader, Agile Development, with IBM® Rational®, (co)-author of 19 books, including many on agile development, and a senior contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal. He talks about his compilation article, highlighted on developerWorks: "Agile RUP: Experiences from the trenches."
19 Feb 2008

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Nick Chase on creating an Ajax Mindreader application with E4X and Prototype
Developer and author Nick Chase talks about his two-part article titled "Create an Ajax mindreader application with E4X and Prototype."
12 Feb 2008

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Adam Houghton on developing iPhone Web applications with Eclipse
A senior software developer in the SAS Advanced Computing Lab previews his new article titled "Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse," featured on developerWorks.
29 Jan 2008

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Senthil Nathan on customizing an RSS aggregator in PHP
An IBM senior software engineer previews his new article titled Build a customizable RSS feed aggregator in PHP," featured on developerWorks.
22 Jan 2008

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developerWorks Interviews: Swinging with Jazz and Rational Team Concert
IBM Rational leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in this developerWorks podcast. Hear them talk about Jazz, how it fits into the overall Rational story, and what the big news is with the Rational Team Concert open beta.
15 Jan 2008

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developerWorks Interviews: John Boyer on XForms release 1.1
John Boyer is Lotus® Forms architect and chair of the W3C Forms Working Group that produces the XForms standard. In this 25-minute podcast, he digs deep into how XForms works, its business value, and how it offers a substantial improvement over common Web application technologies by combating the coding complexity inherent in these technologies.
08 Jan 2008

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developerWorks Interviews: Tracing human origins with the Genographic Project
Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project, and Ajay Royyuru, IBM Research lead for the project, talk about this globe-spanning effort to collect DNA samples representing a worldwide range of diversity. They talk about the project mission, how the work is being done, and what they are already learning. They address some criticisms of the project, talk about the computing systems in use, and detail how to contribute to the study.
13 Dec 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: IEEE Software Magazine's Hakan Erdogmus
Hakan Erdogmus, editor-in-chief of IEEE Software Magazine, talks about the mandate of the magazine, how it differs from other software publications, and why it is valuable for today's software engineer. He talks about how the content and the audience have evolved, and touches on some trends he sees in regard to essenatial skills for software engineers.
05 Dec 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Rational Team Concert and Jazz
Kartik Kanakasabesan, product manager for Rational® Team Concert, talks about the first offering on the Jazz platform: Rational Team Concert, a collaborative portal enabling real-time collaboration across a software delivery team.
27 Nov 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Build-and-release best practices
Sundeep Goel, Worldwide Channel Sales with IBM Rational, talks about principles around build-and-release best practices, including software reproducibility, decoupling process from hardware, and building early and often. He then shares some real-world scenarios.
13 Nov 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Looking at Rational Build Forge Express Edition
Sundeep Goel, Worldwide Channel Sales with IBM Rational, talks about the development need that Rational Build Forge® Express Edition is designed to address. He talks about what to expect in implementation, the strengths of the Build Forge product set, and where Express Edition fits into the picture.
06 Nov 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Matt Hogstrom on Geronimo and WebSphere CE
IBM WebSphere® CE architect and Geronimo committer Matt Hogstrom looks at the strengths of open source application server Apache Geronimo and the community of developers around it. He touches on what's in V2.0, where things are headed, and talks about the thinking behind WebSphere Community Edition, which was built on the Geronimo code base.
30 Oct 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Watchfire's Mike Weider on web application security
Michael Weider, CTO of Watchfire, an IBM company, explains Web application attacks and shares a top-10 list to help organizations focus on the most serious Web application security vulnerabilities. He looks at how IT organizations are addressing these exposure points and shares some best practices that have been gleaned from his work with Watchfire.
23 Oct 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Krugle, developerWorks, and code search
Ken Krugler, co-founder of code-search company Krugle, and Laura Merling, vice president of Marketing and Business Development for Krugle, join to talk about the ins and outs of code search and what it means for developerWorks users.
12 Oct 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: The growing importance of enterprise modernization
Hayden Lindsey, Rational® vice president for enterprise tools and compilers, defines enterprise modernization and talks about the five key areas of business and IT focus: assets, architecture, skills, processes and tools, and development investments. He introduces the related IBM offerings and shares his views on why getting clear about the place and purpose of IT in an enterprise, and the need for modernization in the five critical areas, is so important.
09 Oct 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Massive data mining and the resurgent mainframe
Paul Cronan drives the ERP curriculum, and David Douglas is a university professor in information systems, both at the University of Arkansas, Walton School of Business. In this 18-minute talk, Cronan and Douglas talk about the resurgence of mainframe computing, its effect on academic curricula, and the massive data-mining system they are building to share with faculty and students at other institutions.
25 Sep 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Performance testing portal applications
IBM Rational® technology evangelist Brian Bryson offers a a quick overview of the special demands of performance testing in a portal environment and how IBM Rational Performance Tester can help.
10 Sep 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: developerWorks technical briefings in Second Life
developerWorks recently held a technical briefing on Web 2.0 in the virtual world Second Life. Anita Mathur (IBM developer strategist), Fred Gutierrez (manager of developerWorks Technical Marketing), and Rawn Shah (developerWorks Community Program manager) talk about the motivation to expand the developerWorks Live! technical briefings into virtual worlds. They share their thoughts on the appeal of Second Life to software developers and review some of the things they learned from the first developerWorks virtual world technical briefing held in June 2007.
11 Sep 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Taking Web 2.0 into the enterprise
David Barnes (IBM Web 2.0 evangelist), Martha Mealy (Lotus marketing), and Lauren Cooney (IBM CTO Office for Information Management), talk about topics they cover at the developerWorks Live! technical briefing titled "Web 2.0 goes to work." Application creation with the alphaWorks mashup-maker QEDWiki, social collaboration in the workplace, and Info 2.0 are covered. If you can't attend one of the upcoming events, this is a good way to get a taste of the topics and some ideas on where to go to learn more.
28 Aug 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Wired's Chris Anderson on The Long Tail
Wired magazine's editor-in-chief talks about the fun of tracking technology trends and the ideas detailed in his most recent book, "The Long Tail: Why the future of business is in selling more of less." He talks about how Web-based digital media is blowing up the old scarcity market model that limited consumer choice and market access for the creators of product, and lists some essentials for establishing a potentially great Long Tail business. He also gives a look at his next book project.
21 Aug 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Dave Mitchell on Software as a Service and IBM
Dave Mitchell, IBM program director for Software as a Service, talks about how the Software as a Service (SaaS) model differs from that of Application Service Provider (ASP). He talks about how SaaS is changing IT and what it means for software developers, touches on SaaS ecosystems, and looks at what IBM is doing in the SaaS space, in particular, through the PartnerWorld program.
07 Aug 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: What is WebSphere Integration Developer?
Bill Lawton, IBM product manager for Business Integration Portfolio Tools, introduces WebSphere Integration Developer, the IBM "one tool, one set of skills" solution for end-to-end integration in your SOA. Lawton touches on the required developer skills, the place WebSphere® Integration Developer holds in the IBM middleware portfolio, and enhancements in recent releases.
31 Jul 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: IBM Business Mashup Challenge winners
The four winners of the IBM Business Mashup Challenge held at Mashup Camp in Silicon Valley join to talk about their entries, about using the QEDWiki mashup builder and about lots of other mashup stuff.
24 Jul 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Quality management for Web services-based applications
Rational® technology evangelist Brian Bryson gives an introduction to SOA testing, talking about the functional and performance testing of Web services. He explains how they differ from other more familiar testing scenarios and discusses related IBM tools.
17 Jul 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Jerry Cuomo on Project Zero
IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO, Jerry Cuomo, talks about Project Zero, an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications.
10 Jul 2007

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Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Three-part podcast on SOA governance
Three IBM software experts talk concepts and tools around SOA governance. Segments offer an overview of SOA governance and related IBM support services, an introduction to WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and a look at SOA governance and organizational change management.
03 Jul 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Dave Newbold on what Web 2.0 means to the enterprise
An IBM Distinguished Engineer and chairman of the IBM CIO Technology team talks about trends with business impact now, including inhibitors and solutions.
19 Jun 2007

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Michael O'Connell interviews from RSDC 2007
developerWorks editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell is on location at the Rational Software Development Conference 2007 in Orlando and talking to IBM execs, IT analysts, attendees, and more.
14 Jun 2007

Podcasts on the developerWorks RSDC space
developerWorks Interviews: Dan McCreary on XForms
XML and metadata consultant Dan McCreary explains XForms and talks about why it offers a way to make applications live elegantly inside a Web browser.
05 Jun 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: A preview of Lotus Notes 8
Jan Kenney, Jeff Eisen, and Mary Beth Raven from the Lotus Notes 8 development team talk about Web 2.0 features, developer opportunities, and community input in the development of Notes 8.
22 May 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: The state of computer science education, Part 2
Professor Andrew McGettrick from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland talks about the state of computer science education from his vantage point, including challenges faced and opportunities at hand.
15 May 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Angel Diaz on business process management
IBM director of IBM WebSphere Business Integration defines business process management, the development climate that demands it, and offers examples of how it has transformed businesses.
01 May 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Walter Bender on One Laptop Per Child
OLPC software and content lead, Walter Bender, talks about the vision, challenges faced, and progress to date of a initiative to get connected laptops into the hands of the children of developing nations.
24 Apr 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Scott Ambler on Agile development
IBM Agile Development Practice lead, Scott Ambler, explains this iterative and incremental approach to development, lays out the business case for it, and dispels some myths in the process.
10 Apr 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: The Jolt Product Excellence Awards
A look at the Jolt Awards, including developerWorks' Hall of Fame honor, with Jolt officials Rosalyn Lum and Larry O'Brien, and developerWorks editor-in-chief, Michael O'Connell.
03 Apr 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Bobby Woolf on SOA quality management
developerWorks blogger and member of the IBM Software Services for WebSphere consulting team discusses the what, why, and how of Service-Oriented Architecture quality management.
14 Mar 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Dan Frye on Linux security
IBM Linux® and AIX® development lead discusses Linux security, SELinux, the IBM Linux Technology Center, and open source.
20 Feb 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Is computer science education keeping pace with pervasive computing?
Educators share their views on the challenges and promises of computer science education today.
20 Feb 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Inside look at developerWorks Live! briefings
Software developers and presenters Willy Farrell and Jeff Miller offer an insider's look at how the developerWorks Live! briefings work and the win-win they represent for developers and IBM.
20 Feb 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Bob Zurek on Information Server
IBM director of Advanced Technologies and Product Strategy for Information Integration Solutions talks about "infoglut," rapidly evolving demands on data, and a first-of-a-kind data integration software platform.
06 Feb 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Open standards software and NASA's next-generation space telescope
A senior software engineer and a go-to-market manager, both from IBM Rational, talk about open standards system development with the James Webb Telescope project.
19 Jan 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Tim O'Reilly
Web luminary Tim O'Reilly discusses Internet publishing, Web 2.0, and open source.
09 Jan 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Authors of The Art of Possibility
Rosamund and Benjamin Zander talk about interpersonal tools and expanded views for living in a flat world.
19 Jan 2007

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developerWorks Interviews: Rational execs on empowering the "A" in SOA
Jamie Thomas, Lee Nackman, and Scott Hebner talk about the leap forward with IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform Desktop products V7.
05 Dec 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Rawn Shah on Web 2.0 and community
developerWorks Community Programs manager talks about a pioneering university course on Web 2.0 and online communities.
14 Nov 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Jon "maddog" Hall on Linux and life
Renowned open source advocate waxes philosophical about Linux, open source, education, consumerism, and more.
31 Oct 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Laurance Doyle
SETI astrophysicist on searching the stars with the help of the Web.
18 Oct 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: David Boloker
CTO of Emerging Internet Technology for IBM talks about Ajax, the OpenAjax Alliance, and Web 2.0.
05 Oct 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Bob Sutor
IBM vice president on the vision, reality, and future of open standards and open source.
29 Sep 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: alphaWorks success stories
Conversations with IBMers whose technologies have taken off with the help of alphaWorks.
21 Sep 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: IBM executives on alphaWorks at 10 years
Three critical players in alphaWorks' history reflect on IBM's highly regarded early-adopter program.
12 Sep 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Carol Jones
IBM Fellow talks about social networking, advances in collaboration, and the tools growing up to facilitate them.
05 Sep 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee
Originator of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium talks about how far we've come and about the challenges and opportunities ahead.
22 Aug 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Bobby Woolf
Star developerWorks blogger talks about event-driven architecture, service-oriented architecture, and blogging.
08 Aug 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: David Rhoderick and John Thomas on the mainframe today
A mainframe evangelist and transitioning software engineer talk about the state of the mainframe today.
27 Jul 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Lee Nackman, Martin Nally, Murray Cantor
Rational Software Development Conference 2006 keynotes and interview: Rational luminaries on governing development and the Rational vision.
27 Jul 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Rod Smith on emerging Internet technology
IBM vice president of Emerging Internet Technologies on the business of watching, encouraging, and leveraging new technologies.
27 Jun 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Danny Sabbah, RSDC 2006 keynote and interview
General manager of IBM Rational Software on governing development as the next step in development organization transformation.
16 Jun 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: John Kellerman on Eclipse
Manager of IBM Eclipse strategy talks about the Eclipse story.
24 May 2006

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developerWorks Interviews: Grady Booch
IBM Fellow Grady Booch discusses innovation and evolution in IT, being an IBM Fellow, and keeping an eye on the horizon.
24 May 2006

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