IBM developerWorks podcasts

developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson share closing thoughts at the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011.

Arvind Krishna is General Manager of IBM Information Management and joined Todd and I at Information On Demand 2011 last week to talk about the conference theme of "Turning Insight Into Action," parallel lessons from the Moneyball keynote by Michael Lewis and Billy Beane, and the value to an organization of external advocacy and the IBM Champion Program in particular.

Inhi Cho Suh is VO of Product Management and Strategy for IBM Information Management. She joined developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson during the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011 for a chat on the state of things with smart data and for thoughts on external advocacy and the IBM Champion Program.

Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP and Group Executive for Software and Systems, joins developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson at the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011 to talk stats, IT trends, predictive analytics, and the four "V"s of big data.

We turn the tables on Andy in this podcast and put him in the hot seat. In this interview, conducted by mobile maven Pete Erickson, founder of Disruptathon and MoDevDC, Andy discusses mobile development in the enterprise and his new venture as CTO of App47.

Interested in the agile methodologies and tools? Look no further than this podcast, with Wakaleo CEO John Smart. Learn about Specification by Example, Thucydides, Jenkins, Test Driven Development, acceptance testing, and more.

Scott Laningham speaks with Steve Trammell with ESRI, Dave Kerr with SpotOn Systems, and Rob Dolan with Business Analytics at IBM about mapping and geo-spatial analytics and how their integration with business intelligence software is bringing new, more powerful analysis tools for all kinds of organizations. They discuss: Geo-spatial analytics, the big needs and solutions being considered; How the user of business intelligence software benefits; An integrated solution that bridges the gap between business intelligence systems and GIS systems.

Meet the man behind Chronon, the revolutionary Java debugger that records the execution of a Java program for playback on any computer without need for connection (to the back-end database or a network). Find out why this approach is fundamentally different from standard logging and debugging and how it will improve your applications.

John McDonald is a 20-year veteran of IBM and co-founder of CloudOne, the first IBM Rational Business Partner to offer Software as a Service and cloud hosting to Rational customers. The IBM Champion program recognizes innovative thought leaders in the technical community and helps to amplify their voice and increase their sphere of influence, Find out more at ibm.com/developerworks/champion

John Swanson and I run down the homepage highlights for the week of October 19-26. We touch on the new IBM Smart Cloud resource, new dW content on Samba, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Python, Virtualized disks, Agile, and SPSS Model Scoring, and next week's Information On Demand global conference in Las Vegas.

This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I launch the dW YouTube Channel viewer campaign, run down the week's content highlights, including the official launch of knowledge paths on dW, and talk a little more about the upcoming Information On Demand 2011 Conference, Oct 23-27 in Las Vegas.

Information On Demand 2011 is IBM's largest technical conference, this year themed "Turn Insight Into Action," and focused on helping companies drive innovation and optimize their systems and business. Eric Sall, V.P. of Product Marketing for IBM Information Management, joined me for a chat on what to expect at this years' conference, once again being held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This Week on developerWorks is dedicated entirely to quick summaries of new content highlights for the week and new site features. developerWorks newsletters editor, John Swanson, joins podcast host Scott Laningham.

This Week on developerWorks is dedicated entirely to quick summaries of new content highlights for the week and new site features. developerWorks newsletters editor, John Swanson, joins podcast host Scott Laningham.

Our chief, Michael O'Connell, joins me for a look at more than a decade of software developer content on IBM's primary resource and web interface to the worldwide software development community. Michael touches on why dW has lasted, won so many awards, and how we keep evolving while striving to stay true to our roots as a resource by and for developers.