Ibm Developerworks Podcasts

Greg Truty, a Web Services Architect for WebSphere Application Server, previews a "Meet the Experts" live technical chat on new WebSphere Application Server Version 7, happening next Thursday, Oct 16. Greg will be joined by six other IBM WebSphere experts.

JCheck 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.

Jim Corgel, general manager of ISV and developer relations for IBM Software Group, talks about the Accelerating Business Value conference coming up next week, October 15 and 16, in Palisades, New York. He touches on the cloud computing focus, key issues driving the move to cloud computing, and talks about the kind of discussions that will be taking place.

Bob Sutor, VP of Standards and Open Source for the IBM, talks about last week's publication of the IBM Standards Principles. It's well worth the short nine minutes to listen. He has a blog entry about it here as well.

Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM's online collaboration services, talks about obstacles that small and medium sized businesses face in working to globalize their reach and how collaboration technologies can help.

John Feller, manager of the jStart Emerging Technologies Development team, co-authored a developerWorks highlighted article this week, "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.

Doug Lenat is a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and founder of the CYC project -- a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can be used by other programs to make them more flexible. Doug talks about where Cycorp is in pursuit of that goal, and talks about the vision of a truly sematic web.

Doug Lenat is a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and founder of the CYC project -- a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can be used by other programs to make them more flexible. Doug talks about where Cycorp is in pursuit of that goal, and talks about the vision of a truly sematic web.

Greg Travis is a software engineer at Google and author of a developerWorks highlighted article this week on building a simple WYSIWYG Web page editor. He talks about the challenge of creating effective GUIs and gives a preview of his article.

If you're following the story here (connectmrfong.com), then you'll know that this news exlusive is a big deal. Getting this interview with Fong across the emptiness of space was no walk in the park with my copper phone line. Thankfully, the IBM conference call system works up to and including the Pluto formerly known as a planet.

developerWorks editor Scott Shekerow talks about the brand new issue of the WebSphere Developer Technical Journal. He also lays out the Journal's mission and approach for those new to this excellent online magazine.

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.

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

Continuation of podcast with Rohit Bhargava, marketer, blogger, speaker and author of Personality Not Included. Rohit talks about his guide for companies on understanding and using their personality to better connect with customers in the social media era.

Entrepreneur and software developer Frank Abelson is the author of a new developerWorks tutorial on creating Blackberry applications using 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.

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.

Travis Grigsby is a developer with IBM Software Group Emerging Standards, and is the co-author of a new developerWorks article on Web Services for Point of Service applications. He talks about working on the specification and about the enhanced mobility of POS devices and apps to come.

dW editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with Senior VP and Group Executive for IBM Software Group, Steve Mills. Steve 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 of 33,000 strong.

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.

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. Millard 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.