Ibm Developerworks Podcasts

Nick Chase, freelance developer and regular dW contributor, talks about Second Life and his new tutorial on tracking spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen.

IBM Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy, Scott Hebner, talks with Michael O 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.

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.

In a podcast interview from the rational Software Development Conference 2008, Walker Royce, VP of Worldwide Rational Lab Services, talks about customers efforts to simplify, improve governance and collaboration, and add automation.

Hayden Lindsey, IBM Distinguished Engineer and VP of the tools and compilers group, talks about the challenges of enterprise modernization going into detail about the five key types.

Danny Sabbah, GM 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.

Martin Nally, IBM Fellow and Rational Chief Technology Officer, talks with Michael O'Connell about RSDC conference announcements and their value proposition from a developer perspective, the open source opportunities around the Jazz platform, Jazz integration on the Internet, and the Telelogic acquisition.

Michael O'Connell is pounding the pavement at RSDC 2008 this week and he caught up today with Beth Friday, Rational VP of Worldwide Client Support. Beth talks about the work her team is doing to support Rational clients including the new Rational RFE Community.

Scott Ambler, Rational Practice Leader of Agile development, spent a few minutes chatting with Michael O'Connell today at RSDC 2008. Scott talks about the work he has been doing to promote more adoption of Agile development.

Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of Software Engineering for IBM Research, talks with Michael O about the cool stuff that keeps him awake each day - mentoring customers around architectural transformation, work on the Handbook of Software Archtecture, platforms for collaboration, multicore development, and virtual worlds.

Jake Miles, freelance developer and senior analyst for Conde Nast, previews his new three-part tutorial series on Mastering Facebook application development with PHP, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sandy Carter, IBM VP for SOA and WebSphere, joins me for a quick seven minute wrap-up on the big announcements made earlier 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 and the IBM Mashup Center, the IBM Smart SOA social network, and related services. This IMPACT press releases listing has more detail and a cool video. Check out tomorrow's (April 30) webcast featuring IBM executives and customers laying out a roadmap for aligning business and IT for maximum impact.

Here's a second engaging discussion on WebSphere sMash and a beta development partner's experience. Rob Nicholson, Senior Technical Staff member with the IBM Java Technology Center, and Naveen Noel, Senior Solutions Architect for ZSL joined me for a windy 23 minutes by one of the pools at the Las Vegas MGM Grand. They talk about WebSphere sMash, it's impact on ZSL's application development, and next steps in the evolution of sMash.

Scott Hebner, Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy, gives a quick preview of this year's Rational Software Development Conference, coming June 1-5 in Orlando, Florida. Big keynotes, guest speaker William Shatner, comedian Mitch Fatel, and Grammy-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.