IBM developerWorks podcasts

Josh Bruhin, Director of Business Development for ViewCast, an IBM Business Partner, talks about the exploding use of video on the Web and about the challenge and opportunity of meeting the related production, storage, and delivery needs.

David Ashley, a senior IT specialist at IBM, talks about his new developerWorks article on beginning your journey to an on demand software build service using the flexible Linux Kernel Virtual Machine.

Scott Johnson is founder of SolarNetOne, a project delivering a solar-powered, turnkey Internet hotspot. He talks about building SolarNetOne for maximum efficiency and portability, about the importance of open source software to the project, and about his initial brainstorm sessions with Dr. Vint Cerf.

IBMers Andrew Freed, Mike Gering, and Stephen Schmidt, talk about virtual appliances, the Open Virtualization Standard, and the Eclipse-based OVF Tookit.

John Hogan, Senior Technical Staff Member, Smart City Command Center Architect, and Colin Harrison, IBM Corporate Strategy director for Smart City, talk about smart cities -- what they are, how to get there, and the skills developers need to take advantage of related opportunities.

Michael Lee Stallard is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite your team's passion, creativity, and productivity. In this podcast, we talk about what Michael calls connection cultures, what happens when they're present and when they're not. He gives examples of both, including Pixar Studios.

Three individuals who are helping to drive the cross-industry Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative talk about the first year of the OSLC and what is in the just released spec. Joining are Steve Abrams, lead architect of the OSLC; Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and the lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project; and Carl Zetie, a former Forrester analyst who is now a senior IBM strategist driving Rational's ALM strategy.

Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group, talks about clean tech and why it is one of the hot areas of interest for investing. He touches on what IBM is doing to help U.S. entrepreneurs participate in federal stimulus funding around smart grid, and on broader developer opportunities.

Jeff Crystal talks about making cool solar products at Voltaic Systems and working on an efficient, green supply chain. Before joining Voltaic Systems to run operations, Jeff was on management teams at the telephony and grassroots technology company, Spoken Hub and the Java software development environment, NetBeans.

Ted Neward, popular speaker and author on Java, .NET, XML services, and other platforms, talks about his developerWorks article series on Scala and Twitter.

Josh Elman is a Platform Program Manager at Facebook where he focuses on new initiatives and programs for developers on the Facebook Platform. He talks about what it's like to work for Facebook, how FB is changing developer expectations for corporate applications, what Facebook Connect is, developer opportunities, etc.

Ami Dewar and John Muller of the developerWorks advanced design team talk about some of the human design factors and testing they've been doing with new features rolling out with My developerWorks site customization.

Inventor Mike Brickley talks about his ideas for making the internal combustion far more efficient, as a transition to next gen engines, and shares thoughts on inventing and on the urgency for forward-looking thought. Brickley is an independent inventor in Austin, Texas. He's had a life-long interest in engines and inventing, and has designed and built a number of steam engines, internal combustion engines, and Stirling engines.

Information industry analyst, Amy Wohl, and IBM VP for Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner, talk about smart and green IT being more important than ever, and an arena of vast opportunity for developers.

Virginia Sharma, IBM Event Director for IMPACT, and Neil Johnson, Convention Sales Executive for Las Vegas Convention and Visitor's Authority, address concerns that Vegas and big conferences are impractical right now. The value of Vegas and the great resources at IMPACT are discussed, including SOA case studies, technical sessions, daily keynotes by IBM execs (and hosted by Billy Crystal), and more. Listen to the podcast for a special conference offer.