If you are planning to attend the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive event in Austin next spring, or even if you aren't but feel generous and inclined to help me out, please vote for the session that I proposed to deliver during the event. This year part of the selection process for the sessions includes a public voting process, so the sessions with the most votes have the best chance of making it onto the agenda. There are thousands of proposals submitted, and only a handful of presentation slots(!) So I can really use all the... [More]

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You're invited to attend a new Webcast,   Mobile Testing: Proven techniques to use when apps just have to work , August 15th, at 2:00 Eastern.  What it's about:  Mobile app testing is harder and more complex than testing more traditional web and desktop apps. However, new, creative techniques are being proposed, tried, and adopted every day and the ecosystem of mobile testing solution vendors is growing to provide integrated, automated, and collaborative technologies to address the issues facing... [More]

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I just published a new paper titled "Mobile 'systems of interactions' driving business innovation" located here: http://ibm.co/13WBssY The paper discusses how systems of interaction are broader than just the code running on the mobile device, and how these systems are transforming how enterprises are running their businesses. I also discuss some of the unique aspects of developing these kinds of software systems. There will be more about this topic presented at the upcoming IBM Innovate 2013 conference, June 2-6,... [More]

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Something occurred this past week that indicates to me that the industry for mobile development tools is maturing. The OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) has announced the formation of a group to explore standardization for the APIs used by tools related to mobile application development. OSLC is a industry standards group formed to define common APIs for the integration of software development tools. The fact that tools for mobile... [More]

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First of all, I want to especially emphasize that the content of this blog post is completely my own synapse connections and not those of my employer.    This recent article from ReadWrite.com ( http://bit.ly/XUwvAF ) got me thinking in terms of the old saying "what goes around, comes around". I spent a few years of my life passionately working on IBM's OS/2 operating system (a loooong time ago). I still believe that OS/2 was technically a product that led its market segment at the time ... technically. As an engineer, you could love... [More]

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What does a conference with over 70,000 attendees look like?   I recently chatted with Paridhi Verma about some of the things that stood out to me at MWC 2013: http://ibm.co/13VWX0y

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