Ibm Developerworks Podcasts

Day three of the IMPACT 2008 technical conference featured a customer roundtable on the impact of SOA in their businesses. IBM's Katie Kean hosts executives from Norwich Union, Pep Boys, Nortell, and Spotlight Pty.

We got SugarCRM's co-founder and CTO Jacob Taylor and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo to sit down for an intriguing exchange on WebSphere sMash, the SugarCRM application built on sMash using PHP, and the realities and promises of this approach to development.

Larry Bowden, IBM VP for Portals and Mashups, talks to developerWorks Scott Laningham about Lotus Mashups, Lotus Connections, and related developer opportunities.

In his keynote speech at the WebSphere IMPACT SOA technical conference in Las Vegas, Gary Cripps of Delaware Electric Cooperative talks about the huge transforming effect of SOA on his company's bottom line.

In this 11-minute keynote, Harley-Davidson CIO Jim Haney talks about what his company has done with SOA to enhance the consumer experience.

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 it making it a reality.

developerWorks' Robin Langford joins for a quick update on some new download offerings: Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering, which transforms the way everyday business content such as documents and rich media (such as photos and videos) can be shared and enables more effective team collaboration across organizational boundaries. This is a 90-day free trial. And developerWorks e-kits give you a collection of tutorials, articles, webcasts, podcasts, and demos about a particular product, task, or role.

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.

developerWorks software engineer David Salinas attended his third consecutive South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas last week and shares his thoughts on the week and on the growth of the popular interactive technology track.

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 adoption of the Java programming language worldwide, how Java stacks up against other languages and platforms, what IBM is hearing from the Java community, and what lies ahead for Java.

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. Then Gary Steen, technology director for Martin Dawes Systems, an IBM partner, joins to talk about what his company is doing in the SaaS space. Mitchell and Steen talk about what the partnership has meant to both organizations.

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. Also, check out Paul's dW Space on music programming and algorithmic composition.

Rob Crowther, a Web developer in London, joins us to preview his highlighted article on planning a semantic Web site.

IBM's Sera Lewis talks about a new sandbox for asset modernization that provides hands-on walkthroughs 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.

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.

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 this week on the developerWorks homepage, Agile RUP: Experiences from the trenches.

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.

Nick is back! Regular developerWorks contributor Nick Chase talks about his new 2-part article, "Create an Ajax Mindreader application with E4X and Prototype."

Greg Hodgkinson is co-author, along with Bertrand Portier, of this week's homepage feature -- Part 3 of "Exploring the fundamentals of architecture and services in an SOA." This week's entry is focused on Service-oriented solutions and enterprise architecture. Greg is a lead consultant at Prolifics (www.prolifics.com) and lives in London.

A senior software developer in the SAS Advanced Computing Lab previews his new article on learning to create iPhone Web sites using Eclipse, Aptana's iPhone Development plug-in, and the iUi framework.