IBM developerWorks podcasts

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this 18-minute podcast, Grady Booch, Lee Nackman, and Walker Royce join developerWorks' Scott Laningham and Michael O'Connell on this fifth anniversary of the IBM acquisition of Rational to talk about what it has meant for each company and for the software profession in general. Refinement of Rational's focus, the expansion of IBM's software paradigm, the further embracing of open source and open standards, the investment in growing technical talent, and the Jazz platform are all discussed.

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.

An IBM senior software engineer previews his new article on realizing the power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0 applications, featured on this week's developerWorks homepage.

IBM® Rational® leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in this developerWorks podcast. Hear them talk about Jazz, how it fits into the overall Rational story, and what the big news is with the Rational Team Concert open beta. They touch on how open source has contributed to the development of Jazz, and they share insights on the motivation for moving to an open commercial software development model. Additional resources for education on Jazz and Rational Team Concert are also mentioned.

John Boyer is Lotus® Forms architect and chair of the W3C Forms Working Group that produces the XForms standard. In this 25-minute podcast, he digs deep into how XForms works, its business value, and how it offers a substantial improvement over common Web application technologies by combating the coding complexity inherent in these technologies. Boyer explains why he thinks XForms is the killer app of Web 2.0 and closes with some resources for further education about XForms.