Ibm Developerworks Podcasts

Meet Martina Riedel, IBM Champion and a senior consultant with ReleaseTEAM, an IBM Business Partner focused on software configuration management consulting for customers of Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, and Rational Team Concert.

developerWorks recently published the results of a tech trends survey drawing on the input of the developerWorks community of IT professionals, business partners, students, and university faculty. The survey focuses on trends in the areas of business analytics, cloud computing, mobile computing, and social business. In this episode, two distinguished professors in information systems join Scott Laningham to talk about the business analytics results in the survey. Dr. David Douglas is University Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Dr. Manish Agrawal is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business at the University of South Florida.

Freelance humorist and former IBMer, Tim Washer, joins developerWorks podcast host Scott Laningham for some light-hearted fun reporting on the progress of This Week on developerWorks' Billion Viewer Campaign.

In this last 2011 episode of This Week on developerWorks, John Swanson and Scott Laningham look at new dW content around the topic of security.

Todd and Scott discuss the IBM Tech Trends Survey that detailed input from over 4000 IT professionals, students, and academics from over 90 countries on the topics of business analytics, cloud computing, mobile, and social business.

This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I preview new site content -- the IBM Tech Trends survey, new articles on monitoring and diagnosing Java apps, using Google Chart Tools with IBM Mashup Center, creating custom jQuery mobile themes, Rational Harmony, XML data mining, and alert traffic with IBM Business Process Manager.

John and Scott are back after breaking for the rush of IOD 2011. Today they highlight new developerWorks content on project risk mitigation, the Virtual IO server command line interface, Apache Mahout, balancing openness and privacy, mobile text messaging in web apps, managing change in mainframe applications, and creating interactive maps with HTML5 microdata and jQuery.

Mychelle Mollot, Vice President WW Marketing, IBM Business Analytics talks with Scott Laningham and Todd Watson at Information on Demand 2011 about how business analytics can change the way a company competes in the marketplace.

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.

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.

developerWorks'Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson share closing thoughts at the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011.

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.

Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP and Group Executive for Software and Systems, joins developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson at the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011 to talk stats, IT trends, predictive analytics, and the four "V"s of big data.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.