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Photo of Michael O'Connell Editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell on dW at 10
developerWorks' pilot for a decade, Michael O'Connell, talks about special features around the 10th-anniversary celebration and some favorite moments with developerWorks.
22 Sep 2009
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Photo of  Doug Tidwell Doug Tidwell previews 1 Oct virtual cloud event
Doug Tidwell, Emerging Technologies evangelist for IBM, previews the special virtual event, Cloud Computing for Developers, 1 Oct, and hosted by IBM and Amazon Web Services.
16 Sep 2009
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Photo of Anant Jhingran Anant Jhingran on cloud at IOD Conf 2009
Anant Jhingran, vice president and CTO of Information Managment for IBM Software Group, previews what he'll discuss regarding cloud computing at the Information On Demand Global Conference, 25-29 Oct, in Las Vegas.
16 Sep 2009
LISTEN (12:11)

Photo of Nancy Kreps IOD Global Conference preview
Nancy Kreps, conference education manager for the Information on Demand Global Conference, previews the event coming up at the end of October in Las Vegas. Todd Turbo Watson and I will be podcasting from the event. More to come.
08 Sep 2009
LISTEN (5:12)

Photo of Todd Watson Turbotech: Feedly, Web security, U.S. Open tennis
Popular IBM blogger Todd Watson samples from some recent blog entries touching on a cool new feed organizing plug-in for Firefox called Feedly, the X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk report, and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. Also, new content this week on developerWorks.
02 Sep 2009
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Photo of Nathan Good Nathan Good on faster Java™ coding in Eclipse Galileo
Freelance developer Nathan Good talks about what's new in Eclipse V3.5, particularly as it relates to his developerWorks article "Faster Java coding in Eclipse Galileo." Also, connect with Nathan on My developerWorks.
25 Aug 2009
LISTEN (4:06)

James Smith on embedding environmental intelligence in your apps
James Smith, a development manager at Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine (AMEE), talks about his new article, "Introduction to AMEE: Embed environmental intelligence into your applications."
18 Aug 2009
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Photo of Rick Hightower Rick Hightower on killer apps with GAEJ
Rick Hightower talks about his new developerWorks series on building scalable Java-based killer apps with the Google App Engine for Java. He is CTO of Mammatus Inc., a consulting company that specializes in cloud computing, GWT, Java EE, Spring, and Hibernate development.
11 Aug 2009
LISTEN (4:43)

VIDEO PODCAST: IBM, the Cloud, and Corent Technology Inc.
Scott Chate from Corent Technology, an IBM Business Partner specializing in the software as a service arena, talks about the effect IBM offerings on AWS has had for Corent Technology customers and Corent internally.
3 Aug 2009
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Photo of Scott Shekerow Scott Shekerow on the latest WebSphere® Developer Technical Journal
Scott Shekerow, editor of the WebSphere Developer Technical Journal, talks about new content in the latest issue of this periodic Web magazine. Article on customizing and administering a cloud, agile development, core banking activity, super clusters, and more.
28 July 2009
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Photo of Branavan Ganesan Photo of David Salinas Photo of Valerie Skinner My developerWorks update — More features and lessons learned
Branavan Ganesan, developerWorks community guru; David Salinas, my developerWorks engineering lead; and Valerie Skinner with developerWorks marketing talk about the strong press My developerWorks has received, incremental profiling and other enhancements, and whats new with Lotus® Connection V2.5.
21 July 2009
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Photo of Josh Bruhin Josh Bruhin of ViewCast on the media management challenge
Josh Bruhin, director of Business Development for ViewCast, an IBM Business Partner, talks about the exploding use of video on the Web and about the challenge and opportunity of meeting the related production, storage, and delivery needs.
21 July 2009
LISTEN (14:36)

Photo of David Ashley David Ashley on a build environment with the Linux® KVM
David Ashley, a senior IT specialist at IBM, talks about his new developerWorks article on beginning your journey to an on demand software build service using the flexible Linux Kernel Virtual Machine.
16 July 2009
LISTEN (5:39)

Photo of Scott Johnson Scott Johnson on Internet anywhere with SolarNetOne
Scott Johnson is founder of SolarNetOne, a project delivering a solar-powered, turnkey Internet hotspot. He talks about building SolarNetOne for maximum efficiency and portability, about the importance of open source software to the project, and about his initial brainstorm sessions with Dr. Vint Cerf.
03 July 2009
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Photo of Stephen Schmidt Photo of Andrew Freed Photo of Mike Gering 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 Toolkit.
01 July 2009
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Photo of Colin Harrison Photo of Jogn Hogan 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.
16 June 2009
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Photo of Michael Lee Stallard Michael Lee Stallard on the importance of connection cultures
Michael Lee Stallard is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite your team's passion, creativity, and productivity. In this podcast, we talk about what he calls connection cultures, what happens when they're present and when they're not. He gives examples of both, including Pixar Studios.
09 June 2009
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Photo of Steve Abrams Photo of Carl Zetie Photo of Mik Kersten 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 the Rational® ALM strategy.
29 May 2009
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Photo of Drew Clark 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.
27 May 2009
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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.
13 May 2009

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(10:59)

Photo of Ted Neward Ted Neward on Scala and Twitter
Ted Neward, popular speaker and author on Java™ technology, .NET, XML services, and other platforms, talks about his developerWorks article series on Scala and Twitter.
12 May 2009

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(8:29)

Photo of Josh Elman 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 it's is changing developer expectations for corporate applications, what Facebook Connect is, developer opportunities, etc.
05 May 2009

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(21:43)

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Photo of Ami Dewar Photo of John Muller 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.
28 Apr 2009

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(8:54)

Photo of Mike Brickley 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. 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.
22 Apr 2009

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(24:08)

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Photo of Amy Wohl Photo of Rich Lechner Is green IT still smart?
Information industry analyst Amy Wohl, and IBM vice president for Energy and Environment Rich Lechner talk about smart and green IT being more important than ever and an arena of vast opportunity for developers.
21 Apr 2009

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(14:25)

Cindy Saracco Cindy Saracco on pureXML and next-gen DB2
Cindy Saracco, a senior solution architect at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory, explains pureXML, what it brings to the next release of DB2®, and talks about learning resources.
17 Apr 2009

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(10:49)

Photo of Terry Quatrani Terry Quatrani previews Rational Software Conference 2009
Terry Quatrani, Rational technical events content lead, gives us a look ahead to the Rational Software Conference 2009, 31 May through 4 Jun in Orlando.
14 Apr 2009

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(7:04)

Photo of Traci Fenton WorldBlu's Traci Fenton on inspiring democratic workplaces
WorldBlu is a leadership and business design studio promoting organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership. Founder Traci Fenton shares the WorldBlu view on qualities that make up a democratic workplace and offers real-world examples of transitions and results.
14 Apr 2009

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(21:50)
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Photo of Julian Stuhler Julian Stuhler on the International DB2 Users Group
Julian Stuhler, president of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), talks about its mission, benefits and events, and how IDUG stands out from other user groups.
09 Apr 2009

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(11:12)

Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: Reflections on Todd's Hong Kong/South Korea/Japan trip
Todd Turbo Watson shares impressions from his recent seven-day swing through Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan, focusing on the economic climate, and social networking, smart phone, and broadband use trends.
08 Apr 2009

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(14:47)

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Photo of Ted Zlatanov Ted Zlatanov on Perl and the Amazon Cloud
Software developer Ted Zlatanov talks about his new developerWorks article series "Perl and the Amazon cloud." He explains Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB offerings, and touches on benefits and drawbacks.
31 Mar 2009

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(6:26)

Photo of Beth Friday Beth Friday on the Rational RFE Community at one year
Beth Friday, Rational vice president of Worldwide Client Support, talks about the first year of Rational RFE Community activity — products included, feedback received, lessons learned and changes made, and what next.
24 Mar 2009

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(12:13)

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Photo of Todd Watson Photo of David Salinas SXSW Interactive final thoughts
Our wrap-up podcast at the end of SXSW Interactive with Todd Watson and David Salinas.
21 Mar 2009

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(30:34)
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Photo of Todd Watson Photo of David Salinas SXSW Interactive Day 3 wrap with Watson and Salinas
Day 3 highlights from SXSW Interactive with Todd Watson and David Salinas.
16 Mar 2009

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(11:34)
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Photo of David Meerman Scott David Meerman Scott on World Wide Rave
David Meerman Scott, author of World Wide Rave, a top Kindle download on Amazon, talks about creating triggers that get millions of people to do your public relations for you.
15 Mar 2009

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(25:46)

Photo of Todd Watson Photo of David Salinas SXSW Interactive Day 2 wrap with Watson and Salinas
Todd Watson, David Salinas, and I tweetup at BD Rileys Irish Pup on 6th Street in Austin to recap some SXSW Interactive session highlights from the day.
15 Mar 2009

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(20:06)
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Photo of Todd Watson SXSW Interactive Day 1 wrap with Todd Watson
Todd and I talk about highlights from day one of SXSW Interactive in Austin.
14 Mar 2009

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(11:41)
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Photo of Robin Langford Robin Langford — developerWorks tutorials update
Robin Langford oversees developerWorks' downloads strategy. She talks about the huge and growing developerWorks tutorials library, about retiring the registration component, and about new ways to search the library.
10 Mar 2009

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(6:24)

Photo of Jeff Jonas IBM Distinguished Engineer Jeff Jonas on entity analystics
Jeff Jonas is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, Entity Analytic Solutions, IBM Software Group, shaping the overall technical strategy of next generation identity analytics and the use of this new capability in the overall IBM technology strategy. He joins Todd Watson and me for a talk covering relationship awareness around 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, companies becoming smarter even amidst the infoglut, balancing the always connected world with privacy, and more.
10 Mar 2009

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(31:10)
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Photo of Irene Greif Irene Greif on social networks, social tools, and IBM in this space
Irene Greif, IBM Fellow and Director of Collaborative User Experience in IBM Research Division, talks about social networking, its burgeoning value in the workplace, and IBM's focus in that space.
24 Feb 2009

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(15:29)

Photo of Todd Watson Turbotech: Is Facebook really making us stupid?
Todd takes on a UK professor of synaptic pharmacology over the subject of ADD and social networking.
24 Feb 2009

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(3:27)

Photo of Scott Davis Scott Davis on rebooting the Practically Groovy series
Scott Davis — author, speaker, software developer, founder of ThirstyHead.com, a Groovy and Grails training company — joins to talk about rebooting the Practically Groovy series on developerWorks. His Groovy: A DSL for Java Programmers is highlighted this week.
18 Feb 2009

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(9:36)
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Photo of Todd Watson Turbotech audio blog: Email Sigs In Amsterdam
Todd is in top form mountain-topping about Google Labs new feature for automatically adding your location to an email signature. Here's the original post.
11 Feb 2009

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(3:15)

Photo of Dave Mitchell Dave Mitchell on IBM software delivery using Amazon Web services
Dave Mitchell, IBM Director of Strategy and Emerging Business for ISV and Developer Relations, lays out the details of IBM's partnership with Amazon Web Services to give developers access to IBM software products in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual environment. This is product-level code, with all features and options enabled.
10 Feb 2009

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(8:05)
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Photo of Clark Aldrich Photo of Phaedra Boinodiris Clark Aldrich and Phaedra Boinodiris on serious games
Author and serious games authority Clark Aldrich and IBM lead for serious games Phaedra Boinodiris talk about the growing business use of serious games for training and education.
06 Feb 2009

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(23:28)

Photo of Scott Shekerow Scott Shekerow on the new dW author achievement recognition program
Scott Shekerow is editor of the WebSphere Developer Technical Journal. He joins to talk about the new developerWorks author achievement recognition program.
03 Feb 2009

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(7:04)

Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: Crowdsourcing the Superbowl
Todd "Turbo" Watson celebrates the best Superbowl TV commercial. Read Todd's blog here.
03 Feb 2009

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(2:53)

Photo of Bill Hunt Photo of Todd Watson Search authority Bill Hunt on Google, the Cloud, privacy, opportunity areas, and more
Bill Hunt is author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc. and CEO of Global Strategies Inc, working with many Fortune 500 companies around the globe on their search strategies. He's also a member of the Google Technology Council, a collection of large enterprise tech companies who gather quarterly to discuss search related issues and provide feedback to Google and review Google's latest offers. In this multi-parter, Bill joins Todd Watson and me to talk trends around cloud computing, search, privacy, and more. .
28 Jan 2009

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Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: Inauguration wrap-up, lessons learned, Web-savvy Whitehouse
Todd "Turbo" Watson and I talk about last week's U.S. presidential inauguration and the enormous Web traffic around it, the new Web-savvy Whitehouse, and more. Read Todd's blog here.
26 Jan 2009

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(12:53)

Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: Storms in the cloud?
developerWorks blogger Todd "Turbo" Watson talks about recent Google moves to retire some services and whether we need to worry about the cloud. Read his blog here.
22 Jan 2009

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(8:04)

Photo of Michael O'Connell Photo of Branavan Ganesan Michael O'Connell and Branavan Ganesan on enabling community with new My developerWorks features
developerWorks editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell and developerWorks Community guru Branavan Ganesan talk about the coming rollout in February of major social-networking enhancements to the My developerWorks experience. Check out Bran's blog on the subject.
20 Jan 2009

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(10:13)
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Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: The Blackberry Bold is sweeeeeet
Todd "Turbo" Watson joins me to talk smartphones, the Blackberry Bold in particular, and why he loves it. Check out his related blog entry.
19 Jan 2009

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(15:53)

Photo of Paula Fricker Paula Fricker on getting the most out of your data
Paula Fricker, IBM product marketing manager for InfoSphere Foundation Tools, talks about understanding and making better use of your data to drive innovation and business optimization.
14 Jan 2009

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(6:16)

Photo of Todd Watson TurboTech: Frivolous Facebooking, TV signal converters, and more
developerWorks resident philosopher Todd "Turbo" Watson lets fly on Facebooking with old elementary-school contacts, getting productive for 2009, and helping grandma with the TV signal converter box. Check his blog.
08 Jan 2009

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(3:57)

Photo of Nathan Harrington Nathan Harrington on social-network visualization aids
The author talks about his article on social-networking open source visualization aids.
06 Jan 2009

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(4:32)

Photo og Chris Anderson Wired's Chris Anderson on the vision of "free"
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson joined us for a year-ender to talk about the ideas from his Wired article and forthcoming book on free and the future of business.
22 Dec 2008

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(19:34)

Photo of Todd Watson Todd Watson collides with some 2008 search words
Popular developerWorks blogger Todd "Turbo" Watson riffs on some of the top search words of 2008 and his own experiences with places and events surrounding them.
17 Dec 2008

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(19:45)
Photo of Bernie Spang Bernie Spang with more on IDUG's XML Challenge
Bernie Spang, director of marketing for IBM data management software, talks about the Pointillism meets pixelation: Using the Java 2D API to animate art. XML Challenge, sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), running through 1 Feb 2009. He talks about the levels of achievement in the contest, the state of XML skill adoption, and more.
02 Dec 2008

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(8:01)
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Photo of Paul Reiners Paul Reiners on animating art with the Java 2-D API
Paul Reiners, a software engineer at IBM and Sun-certified Java™ programmer, is the author of a developerWorks article "Pointillism meets pixelation: Using the Java 2D API to animate art." He talks about it here.
02 Dec 2008

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Photo of Fiona Flam Photo of John Robertson Fiona Lam and John Robertson on creating stand-alone Web services apps
IBM software engineers Fiona Lam and John Robertson co-authored of a tutorial series on creating stand-alone Web services applications with Eclipse and Java SE 6. They talk about the series, focusing on Part 1, which is about the Web services server application.
19 Nov 2008

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(5:38)
Photo of Irshad Raihan Irshad Raihan on the XML Challenge
IBM's Irshad Raihan talks about the XML Challenge, sponsored by IDUG, running through 1 Feb 2009. He describes the contest, the levels of participation, the prizes, and talks about IDUG.
11 Nov 2008

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(10:06)

Photo of Alex Rodriguez Alex Rodriguez on RESTful Web services
Alex Rodriguez, a software engineer at IBM focused on J2EE development and RESTful Web services,talks about his feature article "RESTful Web Services: The Basics." He talks about what REST is, the need that it fills, and recommends additional learning resources.
11 Nov 2008

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(4:28)
Photo of Nathan Harrington Nathan Harrington on workstation power use and smart activity monitoring
Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about his developerWorks article "reducing your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitoring." He talks about general approaches relevant for all modern OSes, but offers a specific example on the Linux platform.
04 Nov 2008

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(4:26)

Photo of John Wiegand Photo of Steve Abrams John Wiegand and Steve Abrams on the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration Initiative
John Wiegand, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Rational chief software architect, and Steve Abrams from the Rational CTO Team and lead architect for the OSLC, talk about the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration Initiative. Hear the latest with the Jazz platform, the challenges of integration, and the basics and benefits of the open-services approach.
04 Nov 2008

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Photo of Nathan Good Nathan Good on seven good object-oriented habits in PHP
Nathan Good, a freelance software developer from the twin cities area of Minnesota, joins to discuss an article he wrote titled "Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP."
28 Oct 2008

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Photo of Daniel Lewis Daniel Lewis on intelligent agents and the Semantic Web
Daniel Lewis, a freelance technology evangelist and post-graduate student at the University of Bristol, talks about his developerWorks article "Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web."
21 Oct 2008

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(5:42)

Photo fo Greg Truty WebSphere Application Server V7 tech chat preview
Greg Truty, a Web services architect for WebSphere® Application Server, previews a "Meet the Experts" live technical chat on new WebSphere Application Server V7. He will be joined by six other IBM WebSphere experts.
10 Oct 2008

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(9:08)

Photo of Jim Corgel Jim Corgel previews Accelerating Business Value conference
Jim Corgel, general manager of ISV and developer relations for IBM Software Group, talks about the Accelerating Business Value conference 15-16 Oct 2008 in Palisades, N.Y. He touches on the cloud computing focus, key issues driving the move to cloud computing, and talks about the kinds of discussions that will be taking place.
07 Oct 2008

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Photo of Erin O'Conner Photo of David Salinas Photo of Mark Ingebretson Rational RFE Community update
Check out this group discussion on the Rational RFE Community — lessons learned, user feedback, enhancements to come. Participants include Erin O'Conner, an IBM Rational project manager; John Muller, design lead for the Rational RFE Community; David Salinas, developerworks project lead for Rational RFE; and Mark Ingebretson, who employs Rational solutions within IBM.
07 Oct 2008

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Photo of Bob Sutor Bob Sutor commentary on the IBM Standards Principles
Bob Sutor, vice president of Standards and Open Source for the IBM, talks about last week's publication of the IBM Standards Principles. It's well worth the nine short minutes to listen. He has a blog entry about it, as well.
29 Sep 2008

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(9:30)

Photo of Sean Poulley Sean Poulley on globalizing business reach with collaboration technologies
Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM's online collaboration services, talks about obstacles that small and medium-size businesses face in working to globalize their reach and how collaboration technologies can help.
23 Sep 2008

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Photo of John Feller John Feller on a mashup solution for spreadsheet overload
John Feller, manager of the jStart Emerging Technologies Development team, co-authored a developerWorks-highlighted article titled "IBM Mashup Center: A solution for spreadsheet overload." He previews his article and talks about the growth of mashups on the Web and in the enterprise. Also, check out his related blog entry.
23 Sep 2008

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(5:52)

Photo of Doug Lenat Doug Lenat on Cyc, a truly Semantic Web, and AI
Doug Lenat is a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) and founder of the Cyc project. The Cyc Knowledge Server is a large multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine developed by Cycorp. The Cycorp Web site explains the goal of Cyc as breaking "the 'software brittleness bottleneck' once and for all by constructing a foundation of basic 'common-sense' knowledge — a semantic substratum of terms, rules, and relations — that will enable a variety of knowledge-intensive products and services. Cyc is intended to provide a 'deep' layer of understanding that can be used by other programs to make them more flexible." Lenat talks about where Cycorp is in pursuit of that goal and about what he calls a truly Semantic Web.
16 Sep 2008

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Part 2 — LISTEN (13:20)
Photo of Greg Travis Greg Travis on building a simple WYSIWYG Web-page editor
Greg Travis is a software engineer at Google and author of a developerWorks article titled "Build a simple WYSIWYG Web-page editor." He talks about the challenge of creating effective GUIs and gives a preview of his article.
16 Sep 2008

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(6:12)

Photo of Astronaut Fong Lost in Space: Astronaut Fong's struggle to reconnect with his team
This developerWorks mock special report features an interview with astronaut Fong, adrift in space, disconnected from his team, needing your help. It also features the brilliant IBM telephony, which allows us to make local-rate calls to any place in the solar system.
16 Sep 2008

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(3:43)

Photo of Scott Shekerow Scott Shekerow on the latest WebSphere Developer Technical Journal
developerWorks editor Scott Shekerow talks about the WebSphere Developer Technical Journal. He also lays out the journal's mission and approach for those new to this online magazine.
10 Sep 2008

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(4:37)

Photo of Kevin Faughnan Photo of Dan Griffin New teaching resources for BPM, enterprise computing, and Rational
Kevin Faughnan, director of the IBM Academic Initiative, and Dan Griffin, program manager for WebSphere and SOA participation in the Academic Initiative, talk about new program resources and the impetus for IBM's work with learning institutions.
05 Sep 2008

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(10:33)

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Photo of Nathan Harrington Nathan Harrington on time-availability maps using Perl and Google Earth
Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about his new article "Create time-availability maps with Perl and Google Earth". It's been a while since we last chatted with him, so he also lists off a few more of his recent innovative contributions.
27 Aug 2008

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(4:19)

Photo of Frank Ableson Frank Ableson on developing for the Blackberry with open source tools
Entrepreneur and software developer Frank Ableson is the author of a new developerWorks tutorial titled "Create BlackBerry applications with open source tools." He talks about opportunities around development for the Blackberry, what the reader will learn with his tutorial, and his book project on Android application development.
19 Aug 2008

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Photo of Rohit Bhargava Rohit Bhargava, author of Personality not included
Rohit Bhargava, marketer, blogger, speaker and author of Personality not included , talks about his guide for companies on understanding and using their personality to better connect with customers in the social-media era. Bhargava is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy, a leading agency in helping clients navigate the social-media universe. He's been writing the Influential Marketing blog for the past three years, now ranked among the top 50 marketing blogs in the world and is often featured as an expert in media including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company.
19 Aug 2008

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Part 2 - LISTEN (16:54)
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Photo of Travis Grigsby Travis Grigsby on Web services for PoS applications
Travis Grigsby is a developer with IBM Software Group Emerging Standards and is the co-author of a developerWorks article titled "Web Services for Point of Service applications, Part 1: Retail store peripherals and Web services with PoS open standards." He talks about working on the specification and about the enhanced mobility of PoS devices and apps to come.
12 Aug 2008

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(5:09)

Photo of Michael O'Connell Michael O'Connell interviews IBM SWG leader Steve Mills
developerWorks editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with senior vice president and group executive for IBM Software Group Steve Mills. Mills speaks from his unique vantage point on important trends in software, and shares lessons learned from decades of serving clients and customers. He also talks about the experience of heading up IBM's widely distributed software development organization 33,000 strong.
05 Aug 2008

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(29:15)

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Photo of Kartik Kanakasabesan Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Beta partners talk about Rational Team Concert
Rational Team Concert product lead, Kartik Kanakasabesan, gives an update on the GA of RTC and two beta test partners, Ascendant Technology and Noblestar, join to talk about their RTC projects and the value of Rational Team Concert.
29 Jul 2008

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(16:56)

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Photo of speaker Millard Ellingsworth on the Scrum project management method
Developer Millard Ellingsworth is the author of this week's developerWorks feature article on How to use the Scrum project management method with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform, and he talks about it here. He encourages adoption of Agile development as a member of the IBM Enterprise Content Management group. He serves his team as ScrumMaster and others as an Agile coach and workshop leader.
01 Jul 2008

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(6:23)

Photo of speaker Chris Aniszczyk on Eclipse Ganymede
Chris Aniszczyk, technical lead for the Plug-in Development Environment project at Eclipse, talks about "Eclipse Ganymede at a glance."
24 Jun 2008

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(5:41)

Photo of speaker Tutorial preview: Track spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen
Nick Chase, freelance developer and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about Second Life and his new tutorial on tracking spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen.
17 Jun 2008

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(5:58)

Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: RSDC '08 host Scott Hebner's wrap-up interview
IBM Rational vice president of Marketing and Strategy, Scott Hebner, talks with Michael O'Connell about highlights from the conference, growth in attendance, increasing enthusiasm for and community around the Jazz platform, and the ever-growing focus on software as a strategic asset.
04 Jun 2008

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(16:27)
Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Erich Gamma on open development and Jazz
IBM Distinguished Engineer and Jazz technical lead Erich Gamma talks with Michael O'Connell about the open development of the Jazz platform and where things are headed.
04 Jun 2008

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(16:16)
RSDC 2008 keynote audio
Hear select keynotes from Steve Mills; Grady Booch; Colleen Arnold; Danny Sabbah; and special guest, actor William Shatner. Links to presentation slides in PDF format available, as well.
06 Jun 2008

RSDC 2008 keynotes

Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Walker Royce on how customers are evolving the enterprise
Walker Royce, vice president of Worldwide Rational Lab Services, talks about customer efforts to simplify, improve governance and collaboration, and add automation.
04 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Hayden Lindsey on five key areas of enterprise modernization
Hayden Lindsey, IBM Distinguished Engineer and vice president of the tools and compilers group, talks about the challenges of enterprise modernization, going into detail about the five key types.
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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Rational General Manager Danny Sabbah on listening to customers
Danny Sabbah, general manager of IBM Rational, spent a few minutes with Michael O'Connell, talking about some of the things Rational is doing to interact with and listen more to customers, including an increased focus on clarity around business value.
04 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Rational CTO Martin Nally on Jazz, integration, SOA
Martin Nally, IBM Fellow and Rational chief technology officer, talks with Michael O'Connell about conference announcements and their value proposition from a developer perspective, the open source opportunities around Jazz, Jazz integration on the Internet, and the Telelogic acquisition.
03 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Beth Friday on supporting Rational customers
Beth Friday, Rational vice president of Worldwide Client Support, talks with Michael O'Connell about the work her team is doing to support Rational clients and encourage the adoption of next-gen Rational technologies.
03 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Grady Booch on collaboration, multi-core and more
Grady Booch, chief scientist of Software Engineering for IBM Research, talks with Michael O'Connell about the cool stuff that keeps him awake each day: mentoring customers around architectural transformation, his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture, platforms for collaboration, multi-core development, and virtual worlds.
02 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker RSDC 2008: Scott Ambler on Agile development
Scott Ambler, Rational practice leader of Agile development, spent a few minutes chatting with Michael O'Connell at RSDC 2008. Ambler talks about the work he has been doing to promote more adoption of Agile development.
02 Jun 2008

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Photo of speaker Ray Hammond talks future tech and business
Futurologist Ray Hammond spoke at IMPACT 2008 about the impact of technology on business. I caught up with him to visit about what he calls "accelerating exponential technology development." He also touches on his other five key drivers for the future: population explosion, climate change, the energy crisis, globalization, and high-tech medicine.
21 May 2008

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Photo of speaker Tutorial preview: Facebook app development with PHP, Rational, WebSphere, and DB2
Jake Miles, freelance developer and senior analyst for Conde Nast, previews his new three-part tutorial series "Mastering Facebook application development with PHP, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2."
21 May 2008

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Photo of speaker Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and open source
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins me for a short chat on his work with Wikipedia and Wikia search, and shares his views on open source, a creative mind, and more.
13 May 2008

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Photo of speaker New expert space on Building SOA apps with patterns and reusable assets
Eoin Lane, senior solutions engineer with IBM Software Group, talks about a new developerWorks expert space he has rolled out focused on Building SOA applications with patterns and reusable assets. Check out his blog on the same, here.
13 May 2008

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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Java - still hot or losing its flavor?
Check out Scott Davis and Ted Neward, two popular speakers from the No Fluff Just Stuff Tour, jamming as much quality stuff a possible into a dynamic 42 minutes on whether Java is on it's way out.
06 May 2008

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Photo of speaker Sandy Carter's big six takeaways from IMPACT 2008
Sandy Carter, IBM vice president for SOA and WebSphere, joins me for a quick seven-minute wrap-up on the announcements made this month at IMPACT 2008. She talks about IBM SOA leadership growth, industry viewpoint, capabilities, and new offerings around business process management, new WebSphere sMash, the IBM Mashup Center, the IBM Smart SOA social network, and related services. This IMPACT press release listing has more detail and a cool video.
29 Apr 2008

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Photo of speaker InformationWeek's David Berlind talks unconferencing
Tech journalist David Berlind stopped for a few minutes to chat with me at IMPACT 2008. We talked about the SOA Camp he was facilitating in conjunction with IMPACT and about the refreshing experience of unconferencing where the trappings of a traditional conference are set aside for a more interactive peer-to-peer experience.
29 Apr 2008

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Photo of speaker Scott Hebner previews RSDC 2008
Scott Hebner, Rational vice president of Marketing and Strategy, gives a quick preview of this year's Rational Software Development Conference, 1-5 Jun in Orlando. Big keynotes, guest speaker William Shatner, comedian Mitch Fatel, and Grammy Award-winning rock band The Wallflowers top off a full lineup of more than 300 technical sessions, hands-on technical workshops, complimentary IBM certification classes, technology demonstrations, and a multitude of networking opportunities.
22 Apr 2008

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Photo of speaker New Rational RFE community
In this 13-minute podcast, Beth Friday, vice president of Rational's worldwide client support, and David Salinas, developerWorks project lead for this new application, talk about what the new Rational Request For Enhancement (RFE) community is, why developers should care, why it represents a big improvement over past efforts, and developerWorks' role in making it a reality.
02 Apr 2008

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In this 23-minute podcast, hear about an innovative computer science class at the University of California at Los Angeles that offers students the opportunity to choose an open source project adventure focused on Web 2.0 technologies and interact with professionals from IBM during the project. UCLA computer science professors Paul Eggert and Jens Palsberg join IBM project lead Gergana Markova and classroom assistant Gabe Nataneli in the discussion.
25 Mar 2008

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Photo of speaker Downloads update: Lotus® Quickr™ and developerWorks e-kits
developerWorks' Robin Langford joins me for a quick update on some new download offerings — a 90-day trial of Lotus Quickr, a Web 2.0-based team-collaboration tool for sharing documents and rich media, and developerWorks e-kits, which deliver targeted collections of tutorials, articles, webcasts, podcasts, and demos about a particular product, task, or role.
25 Mar 2008

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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Java technology outlook from Evans Data Corp. and IBM
In this 13-minute podcast, Stephanie Martin, worldwide lead for Developer Relations, IBM Software Group; and John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data Corp. talk about the state of the adoption of the Java programming language worldwide, how Java technology stacks up against other languages and platforms, what IBM is hearing from the Java community, and what lies ahead for Java technology.
18 Mar 2008

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Photo of speaker SXSW roundup with David Salinas
developerWorks software engineer David Salinas attended his third consecutive South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin last week and shares his thoughts on the week and on the growth of the popular interactive technology track.
18 Mar 2008

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Photo of speaker Paul Reiners on dynamic programming and sequence alignment
IBM software engineer and musician Paul Reiners previews his featured article on Dynamic programming and sequence alignment, looking at how computer science aids molecular biology.
11 Mar 2008

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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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 essential skills for software engineers.
05 Dec 2007

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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Performance testing portal applications
IBM Rational® technology evangelist Brian Bryson offers 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Web luminary Tim O'Reilly discusses Internet publishing, Web 2.0, and open source.
09 Jan 2007

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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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.
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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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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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IBM vice president on the vision, reality, and future of open standards and open source.
29 Sep 2006

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Three critical players in alphaWorks' history reflect on IBM's highly regarded early-adopter program.
12 Sep 2006

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

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

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Photo of speaker Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Photo of speaker 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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Manager of IBM Eclipse strategy talks about the Eclipse story.
24 May 2006

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IBM Fellow Grady Booch discusses innovation and evolution in IT, being an IBM Fellow, and keeping an eye on the horizon.
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