Scott Laningham, editor of developerWorks podcasts, talks with thought leaders
in many fields, paying extra attention to the computing and software element with each
focus. This feed also features other developer-related podcasts from IBM.
Lotusphere 2012: Summary thoughts from analyst Gary Barnett
Fri, Feb 10th 2012 10:09a developerWorks pods Bathwick Group CTO and analyst Gary Barnett joins me over his smartphone webcam from the Lotusphere Social Innovations Lab to share his end-of-conference thoughts form Lotusphere 2012. Gary talks about how IBM is delivering on the social business promise implied at last year's Lotusphere, the expanding opportunity field for developers, the bright future for android, and the state of organizational acceptance and adoption around social business. [read] Keywords: ibm
lotusphere
IOD 2011: IBM's Arvind Krishna on smart data, fostering change, and advocacy
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 12:11p developerWorks pods Arvind Krishna is General Manager of IBM Information Management and joined Todd and I at Information On Demand 2011 last week to talk about the conference theme of "Turning Insight Into Action," parallel lessons from the Moneyball keynote by Michael Lewis and Billy Beane, and the value to an organization of external advocacy and the IBM Champion Program in particular. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD 2011: IBM's Inhi ChoSuh on data finding data, relevance finding you
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 12:11p developerWorks pods Inhi Cho Suh is VO of Product Management and Strategy for IBM Information Management. She joined developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson during the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011 for a chat on the state of things with smart data and for thoughts on external advocacy and the IBM Champion Program. [read] Keywords: ibm
blogger
Andrew Glover on enterprise mobile development
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 12:11p developerWorks pods We turn the tables on Andy in this podcast and put him in the hot seat. In this interview, conducted by mobile maven Pete Erickson, founder of Disruptathon and MoDevDC, Andy discusses mobile development in the enterprise and his new venture as CTO of App47. [read] Keywords: development
enterprise
mobile
podcast
John Smart is wild for agile development
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Interested in the agile methodologies and tools? Look no further than this podcast, with Wakaleo CEO John Smart. Learn about Specification by Example, Thucydides, Jenkins, Test Driven Development, acceptance testing, and more. [read] Keywords: development
podcast
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Integrating mapping and geo-spatial analytics with business intelligence software
Fri, Oct 21st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Scott Laningham speaks with Steve Trammell with ESRI, Dave Kerr with SpotOn Systems, and Rob Dolan with Business Analytics at IBM about mapping and geo-spatial analytics and how their integration with business intelligence software is bringing new, more powerful analysis tools for all kinds of organizations. [read] Keywords: ibm
integration
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Prashant Deva and his DVR-like Java debugger, Chronon
Fri, Oct 21st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Meet the man behind Chronon, the revolutionary Java debugger that records the execution of a Java program for playback on any computer without need for connection (to the back-end database or a network). Find out why this approach is fundamentally different from standard logging and debugging and how it will improve your applications. [read] Keywords: applications
database
java
network
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IBM Champion profile: John McDonald, co-founder of CloudOne
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 7:11p developerWorks pods John McDonald is a 20-year veteran of IBM and co-founder of CloudOne, the first IBM Rational Business Partner to offer Software as a Service and cloud hosting to Rational customers. The IBM Champion program recognizes innovative thought leaders in the technical community and helps to amplify their voice and increase their sphere of influence, Find out more at ibm.com/developerworks/champion [read] Keywords: ibm
community
profile
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TWOdW: Samba, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Python, SPSS
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 7:11p developerWorks pods John Swanson and I run down the homepage highlights for the week of October 19-26. We touch on the new IBM Smart Cloud resource, new dW content on Samba, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Python, Virtualized disks, Agile, and SPSS Model Scoring, and next week's Information On Demand global conference in Las Vegas. [read] Keywords: ibm
python
websphere
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TWOdW: HTML5, JAX-RS, BigInsights, Eclipse, Lady Gaga
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 6:10p developerWorks pods This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I launch the dW YouTube Channel viewer campaign, run down the week's content highlights, including the official launch of knowledge paths on dW, and talk a little more about the upcoming Information On Demand 2011 Conference, Oct 23-27 in Las Vegas. [read] Keywords: eclipse
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IOD 2011 conference preview with Eric Sall
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 6:10p developerWorks pods Information On Demand 2011 is IBM's largest technical conference, this year themed "Turn Insight Into Action," and focused on helping companies drive innovation and optimize their systems and business. Eric Sall, V.P. of Product Marketing for IBM Information Management, joined me for a chat on what to expect at this years' conference, once again being held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. [read] Keywords: ibm
dW Editor-in-Chief Michael O'Connell on 12 years as a premier developer site
Fri, Sep 30th 2011 12:10p developerWorks pods Our chief, Michael O'Connell, joins me for a look at more than a decade of software developer content on IBM's primary resource and web interface to the worldwide software development community. Michael touches on why dW has lasted, won so many awards, and how we keep evolving while striving to stay true to our roots as a resource by and for developers. [read] Keywords: ibm
community
development
interface
Trent Gray-Donald on IBM SDK Java Technology Edition V7
Tue, Sep 20th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Trent Gray-Donald, IBM Java 7 Technical Lead, talks about how IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 7 differs from previous releases, the impact of IBM joining OpenJDK, how the Java virtual machine is helping to accelerate the performance of other programming languages, and more. [read] Keywords: ibm
java
TurboTech 14 Sep, 2011: Watson's job, TechCrunch, Twitter numbers
Wed, Sep 14th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This week on TurboTech, IBM tech evangelist Todd "Turbo" Watson covers four topics in 12 minutes, failing back off his swifter game of last week. I'll get him him back on track next week by remembering my timer. This week, the Watson supercomputer goes to work for Wellpoint, Michael Arrington out at TechCrunch, the Tweet button is on three million sites and counting, and a local Austin plug for the coming Austin City Limits Music Festival. [read] Keywords: ibm
twitter
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TWOdW Sep 8, 2011 - xdotool, CometD, CLPPlus, Apache CXF
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 12:09a developerWorks pods This Week on developerWorks is dedicated entirely to quick summaries of new content highlights for the week and new site features. developerWorks newsletters editor, John Swanson, joins podcast host Scott Laningham. [read] Keywords: podcast
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TurboTech Sep 2, 2011 -Fraud detection, ATT, Facebook vs Google plus
Fri, Sep 2nd 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This week on TurboTech, IBM tech evangelist Todd "Turbo" Watson covers six issues in ten minutes -- Twitter's role during Hurricane Irene, the IBM acquisition of fraud detection analytics firm i2, resistance to the proposed ATT takeover of T-Mobile USA, Facebook vs Google plus demographics, the graying of social networks, and Todd's favorite tool of the week. [read] Keywords: ibm
facebook
google
mobile
twitter
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TWOdW Aug 31, 2011 - Author, speaker, developer Andy Glover
Thu, Sep 1st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This week on developerWorks, John Swanson is back with his Hurricane Irene survival story and notes on this week's feature article, Generate dynamic mobile web interfaces with the Dojo Toolkit. Then author, speaker, entrepreneur Andy Glover joins to talk about his latest adventures, his Java technical series on dW, Heroku, Ruboto, and more. [read] Keywords: notes
dojo
java
mobile
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Jon Gifford on the marriage of logging, search, and cloud computing
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Loggly CTO Jon Gifford talks with Andy about the concept of logging as a service and how it allows for easier log management and manipulation. The scale of what can be done simultaneously (and stably) within large systems is truly exciting. Learn the details of how Loggly does what it does, how it's different from what you've used before, and where it's going in the future. [read] Keywords:
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Dan Allen on the Arquillian testing framework
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods The Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist explains how Arquillian eases integration testing by providing a test harness to abstract away container life cycle and deployment from test logic. [read] Keywords: integration
red hat
Paul Duvall on migrating to the cloud
Tue, Aug 2nd 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Considering moving into the cloud? This podcast, with developerWorks contributor and automation expert Paul Duvall, details the many considerations and options a company must investigate to migrate its infrastructure smoothly and safely. [read] Keywords: podcast
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David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Bradford Stephens, Co-Chair of OSCON Data
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Bradford Stephens is Co-Chair of OSCON Data and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, the "Real-Time Big Data" cloud Platform. Bradford discusses why we need ways of handling very large distributed data sets, why SQL doesn't quite work anymore, and the possibilities that lie at the intersection of structured and unstructured data. [read] Keywords: sql
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David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Steve Chin, OSCON JavaTrack organizer
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Steve Chin is Chief Agile Methodologist with GXS and organizer of the Java track at OSCON. Steve talks about JVM languages, the effect of non-Java JVM languages on the Java ecosystem, and why a Java skillset is now an on-ramp to bleeding-edge platforms. [read] Keywords: java
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David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Edd Dumbill of O'Reilly Media
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Edd is Lead Architect, Conferences, for O'Reilly Media and a former regular contributor to developerWorks. Edd discusses how OSCON has changed over the years, how the Java platform is ideal for big data and cloud computing architectures, and which languages are helping to bring functional programming into its own. [read] Keywords: java
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IT analyst Gary Barnett on developer opportunities, Part 2
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Gary Barnett is a partner and CTO with IT analyst firm, The Bathwick Group, and specializes in software development and middleware. In Part 2, more on the value of developerWorks, knowledge paths, and the IBM Champion program. [read] Keywords: ibm
development
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IT analyst Gary Barnett on developer opportunities, Part 1
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Gary Barnett is a partner and CTO with IT analyst firm, The Bathwick Group, and specializes in software development and middleware. In Part 1, Gary talks about trends, the evolution of collaboration technology, and increasing demand for and importance of soft skills. [read] Keywords: collaboration
development
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The indefatigable Nic Williams extols the virtues of JRuby
Wed, Jul 13th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Does your language of choice allow you to express yourself more effectively? Dr. Nic Williams believes so, especially when the language is Ruby / JRuby. Listen in as Nic discusses Ruby — its efficiency, syntax, and happiness factor — that makes it such a useful language for web applications and the cloud. [read] Keywords: applications
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Jeff Casimir explores Code School's take on better technical education
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Educator and engineer Jeff Casimir discusses the state of technology education (think: that stack of technology books collecting dust on your bookshelf), where it falls down, and how effective models can make all the difference in the learning experience. Rails for Zombies, the popular guide to learning Rails that was originally created as a proof-of-concept for the Code School approach, builds on the techniques used in the traditional classroom — and at a compelling price point. [read] Keywords:
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A look at the new Thomas Erl reference book, “SOA Governance”
Fri, Jun 24th 2011 1:13p developerWorks pods IBMers Andre Tost (Senior Tecnical Staff Member, SOA Technology and Software Services for WebSphere) and Robert Laird (an IBM Enterprise Architect focused on SOA governance and policy) are co-authors of the new Thomas Erl SOA series book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud. They talk about working on a project with such a large pool of contributing authors, the value of this large reference work, the reason for so many early failures in SOA implementations, and [read] Keywords: ibm
enterprise
soa
websphere
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IBM's Scott Ambler on being agile and lean
Thu, Jun 23rd 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Scott Ambler, is chief methodologist for Agile and Lean at IBM Rational, and author of several books on the Unified Process, Agile development, the Unified Modeling Language, and CMM-based development. In this interview he explains LEAN principles as they apply to software development, talks about how governance and a flatter organization are compatible, and describes what IBM has done with these approaches internally. [read] Keywords: ibm
development
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Optime Software's Jon Schlegel explores mobile application development
Tue, Jun 21st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods In this engaging discussion, Jon talks about building successful mobile applications and distinguishing yourself among the masses. He dives into the main mobile platforms, discusses native and HTML5 development, the issues that come with porting across platforms and devices, and the differences in the publishing process between Apple (review process) and Android (fragmentation). And if you're interested in how to turn a buck in this competitive market, you'll want to consider Optime's busines [read] Keywords: apple
application
applications
development
mobile
Kevin Maney, co-author of “Making The World Work Better”
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Kevin is the author of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't, The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM and Megamedia Shakeout. He was a reporter, editor and columnist at USA Today for 22 years and a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio. He has been a contributor to Fortune and Wired magazines, The Atlantic, NPR and ABC News. [read] Keywords: atlantic
ibm
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Light moment at Innovate with Gina Poole and Felicia Day
Thu, Jun 16th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Felicia Day is an actress and writer whose projects include The Guild, an original web series on the eccentric lives of online gamers. Gine Poole is VP of Marketing for IBM Rational. Both joined me at Innovate last week for some light-hearted chat about taking on Watson and Grady Booch in Jeopardy, hosting a big developer conference, social geeking, and the Innovate conference experience. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Big Lever’s Charles Krueger on a factory view of your operation
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Charles Krueger is CEO for BigLever Software, Inc., creator of GEARS, a product line engineering tool and lifecycle framework for systems software. He joined me at Innovate 2011 to talk about the growing need for reducing production complexity and simultaneously increasing scalability, and sites examples of aerospace and automotive companies they have helped. BigLever utilizes numerous IBM Rational tools -- Doors, Rhapsody, Team Concert, ClearCase, and Synergy. [read] Keywords: ibm
Smarter planet tech at IBM SmartCamp Austin 2011
Tue, May 31st 2011 6:08p developerWorks pods Here are my interviews with three of the finalists, including the winner, at IBM SmartCamp Austin. Sam Fuller (Waldo Health), Brad Wiemerslage (Stormpulse), and Barrett Taylor (SecureWaters, Inc. and SmartCamp Austin Winner) talk about their respective smarter planet solutions. Jim Corgel, Director of ISV and Developer Relations for IBM, wraps it up with a few words about the IBM SmartCamp experience. [read] Keywords: ibm
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TWOdW for 26 May 2011: Grady Booch, Innovate preview
Thu, May 26th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This week we hear from both Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM, and Theresa Quatrani, Rational's Technical Event Content Lead. Grady is a favorite speaker and teacher among software developers and well-known for many things, including his work as a co-developer of the Unified Modeling Language. Theresa plays a key role in putting on the IBM Rational Innovate Conference. Both will help us preview what's coming up at Innovate 2011, June 5-9 in Orlando, Florida. [read] Keywords: ibm
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David Champagne on the R programming language and its relevance in the world of big data
Tue, May 24th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods R is an open source, object-oriented, flexible language for statistical analysis — with powerful visualization capabilities. As businesses become more data driven, R is finding itself at the center of the business analytics storm. Find out how you can leverage R in your work and how it can assist you in an increasingly data driven world. [read] Keywords:
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Interview with the authors of 100 SOA Questions
Thu, May 19th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Kerrie Holley, an IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM's SOA Center for Excellence, and Dr Ali Arsanjani, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and and Chief Architect for the Center join to talk about their book, 100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered. We cover the impetus for the book, how SOA helps businesses align IT and business processes, how SOA methods are fostering new development roles, and the progress that has been made in challenge areas like security and testing. [read] Keywords: ibm
development
security
soa
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James Phillips on the post relational world he envisions
Fri, May 6th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods CouchOne and Membase joined forces to produce Couchbase, a NoSQL solution that provides the elasticity and high performance of CouchDB with traditional features like queries and indexing. Join Andy and Couchbase cofounder James Phillips as they discuss the brave new world of fast and safe web applications. [read] Keywords: applications
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VIDEO: TWOdW and the IBM Champion Program
Wed, May 4th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This Week on developerWorks, we check in with John Swanson on dW newsletters focus, run down the home page headlines, and talk to developerWorks Community lead, Branavan Ganesan, about the IBM Champion Program and what it means for developerWorks users. [read] Keywords: ibm
community
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TWOdW and the IBM Champion Program
Wed, May 4th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods This Week on developerWorks, we check in with John Swanson on dW newsletters focus, run down the home page headlines, and talk to Director of developerWorks, Alice Chou, and developerWorks Community lead, Branavan Ganesan about the IBM Champion Program and what it means for developerWorks users. [read] Keywords: ibm
community
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Curt Cotner on easier migration with DB2 SQL Skin
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow as well as VP and CTO for Database Servers at IBM. He's joins the podcast to talk about DB2 SQL Skin, which is all about reducing the cost and risk of moving applications from Sybase to DB2. He talks about the challenges of migrating, and how DB2 SQL Skin makes it simpler and faster by eliminating the need to modify client applications or retrain the end-users sending in the queries. [read] Keywords: ibm
applications
database
db2
podcast
sql
John Steven on software security and the role of today's application developer
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Today's dynamic development landscape presents a nightmare for security experts, but short of "stopping the train," what can you do to ensure a proactive approach to security? In this engaging conversation, John Steven combines his abilities as a software developer with his expertise in security to help us avoid a reactive model and prevent breaches before they occur. [read] Keywords: application
development
security
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New content zone for the IBM i operating system
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Linda Grigoleit, IBM Power Systems marketing, and Kent Milligan, a senior IT specialist from IBM Lab Services and Training, join me to talk about a new topic area on developerWorks for IBM System i. We touch on what IBM i is and the content categories in the new zone, including an IBM i overview, a technical Library, forums, technical updates, tools and downloads, and related event information. [read] Keywords: ibm
system i
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Pinaki Poddar talks persistence: strategies, opinions, and his current interest, JEST
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Persistence evangelist Pinaki Poddar offers detailed insight on the issues surrounding persistence in Java web applications. As a member of the Expert Groups for both JPA and JDO, and a committer for the Apache OpenJPA project, Dr. Poddar is well positioned to provide you with the latest information on this critical layer of any production-level web application. [read] Keywords: application
applications
java
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TWOdW, Impact 2011, and Dave Nielsen
Wed, Apr 6th 2011 10:09p developerWorks pods This Week on developerWorks! dW newsletters editor John Swanson joins me to talk about our planned coverage of Impact 2011, number three of the big five IBM conferences each year and the one centered around WebSphere. Impact starts Sunday in Las Vegas and runs through Thursday, ending with a WebSphere Unconference, hosted by Cloudcamp founder, Dave Nielsen. Dave joins to talk about the latest with cloud and what to expect on Thursday. [read] Keywords: ibm
websphere
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Talking happiness with Zappos’ Jenn Lim
Wed, Apr 6th 2011 10:09p developerWorks pods Jenn Lim is CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010, to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life. She talks about the metrics of happiness, shares stories from the Delivering Happiness tour, and explains their approach to social media at deliveringhappiness.com [read] Keywords: community
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Jason Huggins and Simon Stewart on Selenium 2
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Find out how changes to the Selenium framework take version 2 to a new level, where WebDriver fits into the picture, and how the Android and iPhone support enhances mobile web testing (which is notoriously tricky). Interested in leveraging the cloud for testing? Then you'll not want to miss Simon's "Spinal Tap" analogy for some background. [read] Keywords: iphone
mobile
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How developerWorks helped one partner drive business results
Thu, Mar 31st 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Ryan Koop and Patrick Kerpan of Cohesive Flexible Technologies, along with developerWorks’ Aimee Dean, join to talk about a joint publishing effort that won a Beacon Award runnerup honor for “Most innovative use of developerWorks to drive business results.” The article they discuss is "Deliver cloud network control to the user: See how using a virtual network can put the customer in control of cloud networking". [read] Keywords: network
networking
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Tom Jenkins on Grails security
Tue, Mar 29th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Tom's extensive work in the government sector requires a laser focus on security. His framework of choice? Grails. He's put this popular framework through its paces and describes where it excels and how it handles vulnerabilities found in other approaches. [read] Keywords: security
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David Meerman Scott's marketing lessons from The Grateful Dead
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 1:11p developerWorks pods Marketing strategist, author, speaker David Meerman Scott is always perched out there on the leading edge of the web marketing conversations. I love his use analogies, proving again that great story-telling makes for great communication. I caught up with him at SXSWi last week. [read] Keywords:
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SXSWi Wrapup
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 6:08a developerWorks pods IBMers Rawn Shah (Business Transformation Consultant), Ranjun Chahun (Social Intelligence Strategist), and Kate Motzer (Social Business Manager for the IBM Centennial) join me for our closing podcast from SXSWi 2011. [read] Keywords: ibm
podcast
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SXSWi: Cisco's Tim Washer on business humor
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 6:08a developerWorks pods I met Tim Washer when he was a podcaster and corporate communications guy at IBM where he produced the now legendary spoof video series, Mainframe: The Art of the Sale. Now a social media guy at Cisco, Tim's comedy moonlighting has included appearances on The Onion News Network, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and as a writer for David Letterman. I ran into Tim at SXSWi in Austin. [read] Keywords: ibm
network
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SXSWi: The art of community with Rachael Happe
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 6:08a developerWorks pods Rawn Shah put me in touch with Rachael Happe, Principle and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, a virtual table where social media, community, and social business practitioners network, learn, and further the discipline of community management. Rachael talks about the art of fostering, encouraging and managing a community, something that is inherently non-hierarchical but which is the lifeblood of a business. [read] Keywords: community
network
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SXSWi: Julia Neznanova on social media in Russia
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 6:08a developerWorks pods One of the great things about any conference is the networking opportunity. Todd Watson and I met Julia Neznanova during a session on brands and celebrities on the web. Julia is with the Moscow-based marketing agency Digitalizm, and was at SXSWi 2011 soaking up the ideas and looking for potential partnering opportunities. She talked with us about the state of social media and mobile in Russia and how they help international companies market to Russian customers. [read] Keywords: mobile
networking
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SXSWi with Amplifier, GlennzTees, and FoundFootageFestival
Wed, Mar 16th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Stopped by a popup shop near the Austin Convention center where Joel Bush (Amplifier.com), Glenn Jones (glennztees.com), Glenn Severance (FoundFootageFestival.com) we're relaxing in the warehouse area behind GlennzTees' retail space. We talked about their businesses, impressions from SXSWi 2011, and one of Joel's inspirations - Howdy, Neighbor. [read] Keywords:
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Day 3 from SXSWi 2011
Sun, Mar 13th 2011 10:00a developerWorks pods Day three from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas found Turbo Todd in sessions and me in multiple interviews -- Tim Washer (comedian and Social Media Lead at Cisco), David Meerman Scott (Marketing strategist and author), and Rachael Happe (Founder of The Roundtable Community). I'll post those soon, but here Todd and I share thoughts from the day on augmented reality, good storytelling, Guy Kawasaki on Enchantment, and more. [read] Keywords: community
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Day 2 from SXSWi 2011
Sat, Mar 12th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Highlights from day 2 sessions at SXSWi: Social Media Club, The Last Broadcast - Entertainment is social, Brand Journalism, Customer Experience: Trends and Insights. TurboTodd and I reflect on what we heard. I also attended Web Mashup platforms for future programmable cities after we recorded the podcast. Some interesting stuff, like the Copenhagen Wheel. Seemed incomplete without IBM's John Tolva on the panel. [read] Keywords: ibm
mashup
podcast
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Day 1 from SXSW Interactive
Fri, Mar 11th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Todd Watson and I reflect on the Tim O'Reilly session from the opening half day at SXSWi 2011 in Austin, Texas. Then IBM Business Transformation Consultant and author, Rawn Shah, joins us for a recap of Thursday's Social Business Summit put on by the DachisGroup. We'll have more from SXSWi over the next few days, so keep an eye on this blog. This morning, we're doing a 10am US Central time (-6 UTC/GMT) video interview with Sandy Carter and Kathy Mandelstein of IBM Lotus, live from the Social [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
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Andres Almiray on Griffon
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Find out what this open source application framework, inspired by Grails, has over its competitors and how it can help you build rich desktop applications in Java and Groovy, and, when appropriate, other JVM languages, like Scala, Clojure, and even Erlang. [read] Keywords: application
applications
desktop
java
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Ryan McGeary on CoffeeScript
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Learn more about this lightweight language, syntactically inspired by Ruby and Python and referred to as JavaScript's less-ostentatious kid brother. Find out how CoffeeScript, which is built on top of node.js and compiles to JavaScript, makes functional programming cleaner and produces more readable JavaScript. [read] Keywords: javascript
python
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TWOdW, and Jennifer Chu-Carroll from the Watson/Jeopardy team
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, talks about the Watson computer taking on Jeopardy Grand Champions last week. She digs into the technology, how it all worked, and lessons learned. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ami Dewar on our new site design
Thu, Feb 10th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods dW Advanced Design Team Lead, Ami Dewar, explains what changed with the new site design and how it came about. Plus John Swanson, quite excited about the new MastheadMegaMenu, talks about features and highlights for the week in the developerWorks newsletter. [read] Keywords:
Andy Glover Java series: Scott Davis on HTML 5
Wed, Jan 26th 2011 8:16p developerWorks pods Andy interviews Scott Davis, founder of ThirstyHead.com, on HTML 5, the already pervasive and "hip" web technology. Scott is a regular developerWorks contributor on Grails and Groovy. [read] Keywords: java
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Lotusphere 2011 preview
Wed, Jan 26th 2011 8:16p developerWorks pods Lotusphere 2011 starts this Sunday in Orlando, Florida and I’m joined in this episode by Kathy Mandelstein and Collen Hayes of IBM Collaboration Solutions, and by fellow traveler Todd Turbo Watson in a preview of themes and happenings at the conference. Check this blog starting Sunday for video content from the conference, including streamed keynotes and and interviews from the Product Expo, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. [read] Keywords: collaboration
ibm
lotusphere
traveler
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This week on dW, and Noah Gift on business analytics and cloud
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 9:00a developerWorks pods Noah Gift, Associate Director of Engineering at AT and T Interactive, talks about synergy between cloud computing and business analytics, and give a working example from his new developerWorks article, Cloud Business Analytics: Write Your Own Dashboard. He also shares some interesting background on the history of business analytics, citing controversial U.S. political figure Robert McNamara as a business analytics pioneer and talking about the connection to games and statistical analysis. [read] Keywords:
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James Mathewson on audience, relevance, and search
Thu, Jan 13th 2011 10:12a developerWorks pods James Mathewson, Search Strategy and Expertise Lead for IBM, is the co-author of "Audience, Relevance, and Search." In this interview, he talks about the critical elements in creating successful, audience-winning web copy, why it's more important than ever, making new media more searchable, and the relevant skills which are growing in demand. James has served as editor in chief of ibm.com, and was editor-in-chief of ComputerUser magazine and its website. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Andy Glover Java series: Andrew Binstock on open source
Thu, Jan 13th 2011 10:12a developerWorks pods Andy interviews notable technology analyst and open source advocate Andrew Binstock, who discusses the open source business model, including licensing and code hosting options, and talks to the perfect storm that must occur for an open source project to become widely used (and actually make you money). [read] Keywords: java
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Doug Tidwell on cloud computing frameworks
Thu, Dec 16th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the rise of frameworks in cloud computing and reflects on his recent trip to JavaOne Brazil. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Andy Glover Java series: Sacha Labourey of CloudBees
Wed, Dec 15th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods Andy Glover talks with the former JBoss CTO, Sacha Labourey, about his new endeavor, CloudBees, a Java Platform as a Service for both enterprises and ISVs, from development to production. Sacha talks about Hudson (an open source Continuous Integration project), the importance of a complete set of tools for the application lifecycle in the cloud, and also shares his thoughts on the Google app engine, Oracle-Sun and Java politics, and more. [read] Keywords: application
development
google
integration
java
oracle
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Andy Glover Java series: Ted goes Neward
Thu, Dec 9th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods Recorded during the summer, No Fluff, Just Stuff speaker Ted Neward talks .Net lessons for the Java world, alternative languages on the CLR, why Eclipse is the one IDE the Visual Studio team fears, closed source versus open source, Microsoft's cloud platform Azure, and why he thinks Apple is the next target of the U.S. Department of Justice. [read] Keywords: apple
eclipse
java
microsoft
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Jeff Papows on the impact of faulty software
Tue, Dec 7th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods Jeff Papows, author of, "Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software," talks about three converging forces that are leading to a proliferation of glitches, impacting businesses, governments, and consumers. Jeff delves into what can be done, and a third branch of the software development profession that he sees emerging. Jeff is CEO and President of WebLayers, Inc., a company focused on the automated governance space, and was previously CEO and President of Lotus Development Corporation which [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
development
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Todd Watson recaps the IBM Industry Summit in Barcelona
Wed, Nov 24th 2010 2:15p developerWorks pods Two weeks ago, executives from companies around the globe representing industries across the spectrum gathered in Barcelona, Spain to present, listen, and brainstorm on global business challenges and solutions. Turbo Todd was there as official event blogger and chimes in here with his recap. See Todd’s event coverage here, and additional developerWorks resources on industry opportunities here. [read] Keywords: ibm
blogger
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AMI Partners talks social media marketing awards
Tue, Nov 23rd 2010 11:14a developerWorks pods developerWorks received the "best in class" award for community development in the first annual Small and Medium Business Social Media Marketing Awards given by New York-based AMI-Partners. The awards acknowledge Information and Communications Technology (ICT) providers who effectively use social media to inform the purchase process of small and medium businesses (SMBs). Don Best and Ryan Brock of AMI Partners talk with me about the awards, trends, and developerWorks. [read] Keywords: community
development
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This week on dW, and Chris Wanstrath of GitHub
Wed, Nov 17th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods Check out this week’s content highlights, then listen to our interview with Chris Wanstrath, founder of GitHub, the popular web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. Chris talks about creating GitHub, about the user-based, collaborative interface that GitHub employs, and about his love for neo-classical heavy metal music. [read] Keywords: interface
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Andy Glover series: Google’s Max Ross on the GAE platform
Tue, Nov 16th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods Andy Glover interviews Max Ross, a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he leads the development of the App Engine datastore. Max also founded Hibernate Shards as a Google 20% project. They talk about the Google App Engine platform, how it differs from Amazon EC2, how the datastore works, and where it is going in the future [read] Keywords: development
google
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Forrester’s Josh Bernoff on empowering business
Thu, Nov 11th 2010 5:13p developerWorks pods Josh Bernoff, Senior VP of Idea Development at Forrester Research, is also co-author of the new book “Empowered: Unleash your employees, energize your customers, transform your business.” In this episode, Josh talks about why developerWorks was given the 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award in the business-to-business "supporting" category. We also talk about how social technologies are changing business, how to use them effectively, and what it all means to the IT professional. Josh shares hi [read] Keywords: development
office
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This week on dW, plus IOD conference highlights
Mon, Nov 8th 2010 9:00a developerWorks pods John Swanson is back with a quick word about industry recognition of developerWorks success, and Todd Watson joins for a look back at highlights from last week’s Information On Demand Global Conference. [read] Keywords:
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IBM Smart Business Test/Dev on the IBM Cloud update
Tue, Nov 2nd 2010 10:00a developerWorks pods Brian Snitzer is back with more user input and added features for the IBM Smart Business Test and Development on the IBM Cloud. Also, be sure to check out the developerWorks Cloud Computing zone for great cloud content. [read] Keywords: ibm
development
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IOD Conference preview: IBM's Michael Curry on big data analytics
Tue, Oct 19th 2010 10:00a developerWorks pods Michael Curry, IBM Director of Portfolio Strategy for Information Management, shares some of what he'll be talking about around big data analytics at the Information on Demand Global Conference coming up Oct 24-28 in Las Vegas, Nevada. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD Conference preview: Virtusa talks data warehousing and ECM
Mon, Oct 18th 2010 10:00a developerWorks pods Ajoy Kumar and Srinivas Kandikonda from Virtusa Corporation, a global IT services company, join to discuss their experience with data warehousing and ECM solutions. Both will be at the Information on Demand Conference 2010 in Las Vegas, Oct 24-28. [read] Keywords:
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Marty Moseley on master data management in healthcare
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 7:30p developerWorks pods Marty Moseley talks master data management and challenges/opportunities in the ballooning healthcare area. Marty is an architect in IBM's Information Agenda Tiger Team. He joined IBM as CTO of Initiate, an IBM company focused on helping its clients achieve complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple sources, utilizing master data management. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM, Oracle, OpenJDK, and the implications
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 7:30p developerWorks pods Rod Smith, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group, and Jason Gartner, IBM's Director of Java Technologies talk about this week's news on the IBM and Oracle agreement to cooperate on OpenJDK. [read] Keywords: ibm
java
oracle
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Andy Glover Java series: Opensourcing the search for E.T.
Wed, Oct 13th 2010 2:26p developerWorks pods Andy talks with Avinash Agrawal and Jon Richards, program manager and senior engineer on the setiQuest project, about the program and the open source software behind it. setiQuest taps the global brain trust, harnesses the power of citizen scientists, and seeks to improve current searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and our understanding of our place in the cosmos. [read] Keywords: java
Andy Glover Java series: Ken Sipe on the software architect
Fri, Oct 8th 2010 10:00a developerWorks pods Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc., IBM's largest service partner. He joins Andy Glover to talk about the broad and often vague role of software architect. With his extensive background in engineering and architecture, Ken shares his thoughts on the experience needed and the ideal path to achieving the level of architect, and what lies beyond it. [read] Keywords: ibm
java
