IBM developerWorks podcasts

Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project, and Ajay Royyuru, IBM Research lead for the project, talk about this globe-spanning effort to collect DNA samples representing a worldwide range of diversity. They talk about the project mission, how the work is being done, and what they are already learning. They address some criticisms of the project, talk about the computing systems in use, and detail how to contribute to the study.

Hakan Erdogmus, editor-in-chief of IEEE Software Magazine, talks about the mandate of the magazine, how it differs from other software publications, and why it is valuable for today's software engineer. He talks about how the content and the audience have evolved, and touches on some trends he sees in regard to essenatial skills for software engineers.

Kartik Kanakasabesan, product manager for Rational Team Concert, talks about the first offering on the Jazz platform. He discusses the development environment Rational Team Concert is designed for and looks at some of the challenges Rational Team Concert is intended to address. Scenarios, the open commercial development model, and support for Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET customers are also discussed.

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Sundeep Goel, Worldwide Channel Sales with IBM Rational, talks about principles around build and release best practices including software reproducibility, decoupling process from hardware, and building early and often. He then shares some realworld scenarios.

Sundeep Goel, Worldwide Channel Sales with IBM® Rational®, talks about the development need that Rational Build Forge® Express Edition is designed to address. He talks about what to expect in implementation, the strengths of the Build Forge product set, and where Express Edition fits into the picture.

Matt Hogstrom, architect for Geronimo-based IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and a Geronimo committer, talks about the strengths of Apache Geronimo and what's new in V2.0, including support for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5. He talks about the idea behind WebSphere Community Edition, IBM's free application server based on the Geronimo code. Getting involved with the Geronimo community and what's ahead for Geronimo are also discussed.

Ron Craig takes a look at how this new version of HATS helps users deploy to the Eclipse Rich Client platform. He also discusses additional development capabilities provided by HATS V7.0.

Michael Weider, CTO of Watchfire, an IBM company, explains Web appplication attacks and shares a top-10 list to help organizations focus on the most serious Web application security vulnerabilities. He looks at how IT organizations are addressing these exposure points and shares some best practices that have been gleaned from his work with Watchfire.

The recent addition of code search functionality on developerWorks is huge. For this podcast, Ken Krugler, co-founder of code search company Krugle, and Laura Merling, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Krugle, join to talk about how it works and what it means.

In this 26-minute podcast, Hayden Lindsey, Rational® vice president for enterprise tools and compilers, defines enterprise modernization and talks about the five key areas of business and IT focus: assets, architecture, skills, processes and tools, and development investments. He introduces the related IBM offerings and shares his views on why getting clear about the place and purpose of IT in an enterprise, and the need for modernization in the five critical areas, is so important.

Dermot Flaherty talks about one of the ways to connect core applications hosted on IBM System z (CICS applications, for example), to other distributed applications. He also explores why many organizations are under increasing pressure to do this, and he discusses one solution: IBM WebSphere® MQ for z/OS.

Paul Cronan drives the ERP curriculum, and David Douglas is a university professor in information systems, both at the University of Arkansas, Walton School of Business. In this 18-minute talk, Cronan and Douglas talk about the resurgence of mainframe computing, its effect on academic curricula, and the massive data-mining system they are building to share with faculty and students at other institutions.

In this 17-minute podcast, Brian Bryson, technology evangelist for IBM Rational Quality Management Tools, gives an overview of performance testing in general, then looks at the specific challenges of performance testing applications in a portal environment. He talks about Rational Performance Tester as a tremendous time-saver from the standpoint of data referencing, simple reports, and root-cause analysis. He closes with some suggestions for education and a trial download with Rational Performance Tester.

Wen Lu talks about IBM TXSeries, the version of IBM CICS for distributed platforms. Wen also discusses why TXSeries® is of interest to mainframe CICS users — in particular, how they can use TXSeries to test newly developed mainframe applications by running them on a desktop machine.