IBM developerWorks podcasts

New IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS content highlights for the week of July 25-Aug 1. Scott Laningham give summaries on new content on big data analytics for the gaming industry, using the DataPower Web Graphical User Interface, and handling user input in HTML5 Canvas-based games -- all on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for developers worldwide with tools, code, and education on IBM products and open standards technology.

It's me, Scott Laningham-Live, and Todd "Turbo" Watson-Simulated, providing our take on the announcements at Innovate 2012 in This Week on developerWorks.

Near Infinity's Director of Mobile Solutions goes beyond the hype about Node.js to clear up misconceptions and explain what it is (and isn't) and where it's best applied in your applications.

Neo4j, the popular NoSQL graph database, has garnered a lot of press and praise. Find out more about this robust open source database, how to access data from it, and how you can best apply it in your projects.

Learn more about Jaspersoft's open source data connectors project — what they do and how to get started — which allows you to pull data from any number of NoSQL datastores and do the reporting and analytics required by today's applications.

Peter explains the different types of NoSQL datastores and then gets into the Neo4j graph database: what it is, how it fits into the NoSQL picture, and what problems it solves.

Barry traces his own conversion to agile development and digs into the movement itself, from its conceptual beginnings in "olden times" to the present and with an eye toward the future. A fascinating discussion with a very interesting man.

Learn from the source about InfiniDB, Calpon'ts high-performance, horizontally scalable, and cost-effective solution built for data warehousing and analytics.

You've probably heard about PhoneGap, the popular mobile platform for developing native applications using web technologies, but what about Mulberry? This sleek framework -- what might be characterized as Rails for PhoneGap -- provides both the scaffolding as well as the tools for creating application components. Learn more about Mulberry and how it fits into the mobile world in this podcast with the framework's creators.

The AppFog CEO talks in depth about the PaaS landscape, where it's been and how it's shaping up in the future.

IBM service management specialist, Ivor Macfarlance, talks about his experience teaching the popular service management simulator workshop and gives a preview of what to expect at Pulse 2012.

John Swanson updates us on the hole in his backyard and then we do a quick rundown on new feature and highlights on the site for the week of Feb 15-23.

IBM blogger and in-house tech journalist Todd "Turbo" Watson joins Scott Laningham for a recap of the 2011 IBM Smartcamp Finals, held Jan 31-Feb 2 in San Francisco. More at turbotodd.com and ibmsmartcamp.com.

Bathwick Group CTO and analyst Gary Barnett joins me over his smartphone webcam from the Lotusphere Social Innovations Lab to share his end-of-conference thoughts form Lotusphere 2012. Gary talks about how IBM is delivering on the social business promise implied at last year's Lotusphere, the expanding opportunity field for developers, the bright future for android, and the state of organizational acceptance and adoption around social business.

This week on developerWorks, some site navigation updates and new content on LDAP authentication with MediaWiki, transforming your supply chain, building multiple VPNs and VLANs, designing an integration landscape, the CoffeeScript language, testing Adobe Flex and Flash apps, and device-aware mobile sites.