Ibm Developerworks Podcasts

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.

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.

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).

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.

IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the rise of frameworks in cloud computing and reflects on his recent trip to JavaOne Brazil.

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.

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.

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 he helped integrate successfully into IBM.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 his views on whether it’s realistic to expect people to participate in multiple social networks, and talks one of his favorite topics -- creating a HERO (highly empowered and resourceful operatives) culture in the office.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Swanson runs down the week’s highlights, and then Ami Dewar, Design Lead for developerWorks, and Nick Poore, dW Community Architect, join me to talk about the new developerWorks iPhone app. See Nick and Ami’s related article, Developing a social networking iPhone application based on IBM Lotus Connections 2.5.