IBM developerWorks podcasts

Day three from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas found Turbo Todd in sessions and me in multiple interviews -- Tim Washer (comedian and Social Media Lead at Cisco), David Meerman Scott (Marketing strategist and author), and Rachael Happe (Founder of The Roundtable Community). I'll post those soon, but here Todd and I share thoughts from the day on augmented reality, good storytelling, Guy Kawasaki on Enchantment, and more.

Highlights from day 2 sessions at SXSWi: Social Media Club, The Last Broadcast - Entertainment is social, Brand Journalism, Customer Experience: Trends and Insights. TurboTodd and I reflect on what we heard. I also attended Web Mashup platforms for future programmable cities after we recorded the podcast. Some interesting stuff, like the Copenhagen Wheel. Seemed incomplete without IBM's John Tolva on the panel.

Learn more about this lightweight language, syntactically inspired by Ruby and Python and referred to as JavaScript's less-ostentatious kid brother. Find out how CoffeeScript, which is built on top of node.js and compiles to JavaScript, makes functional programming cleaner and produces more readable JavaScript.

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, talks about the Watson computer taking on Jeopardy Grand Champions last week. She digs into the technology, how it all worked, and lessons learned.

dW Advanced Design Team Lead, Ami Dewar, explains what changed with the new site design and how it came about. Plus John Swanson, quite excited about the new MastheadMegaMenu, talks about features and highlights for the week in the developerWorks newsletter.

Sandy Carter has worn many hats at IBM and is currently VP of Social Business and Collaboration for IBM Lotus. In our chat, she defines social business, the social enabling process, and cultural and organization issues for businesses in transition.

Lotusphere 2011 starts this Sunday in Orlando, Florida and I’m joined in this episode by Kathy Mandelstein and Collen Hayes of IBM Collaboration Solutions, and by fellow traveler Todd Turbo Watson in a preview of themes and happenings at the conference. Check this blog starting Sunday for video content from the conference, including streamed keynotes and and interviews from the Product Expo, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Noah Gift, Associate Director of Engineering at AT and T Interactive, talks about synergy between cloud computing and business analytics, and give a working example from his new developerWorks article, Cloud Business Analytics: Write Your Own Dashboard. He also shares some interesting background on the history of business analytics, citing controversial U.S. political figure Robert McNamara as a business analytics pioneer and talking about the connection to games and statistical analysis.

IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the rise of frameworks in cloud computing and reflects on his recent trip to JavaOne Brazil.

Recorded during the summer, No Fluff, Just Stuff speaker Ted Neward talks .Net lessons for the Java world, alternative languages on the CLR, why Eclipse is the one IDE the Visual Studio team fears, closed source versus open source, Microsoft's cloud platform Azure, and why he thinks Apple is the next target of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Check out this week’s content highlights, then listen to our interview with Chris Wanstrath, founder of GitHub, the popular web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. Chris talks about creating GitHub, about the user-based, collaborative interface that GitHub employs, and about his love for neo-classical heavy metal music.

John Swanson is back with a quick word about industry recognition of developerWorks success, and Todd Watson joins for a look back at highlights from last week’s Information On Demand Global Conference.

Michael Curry, IBM Director of Portfolio Strategy for Information Management, shares some of what he'll be talking about around big data analytics at the Information on Demand Global Conference coming up Oct 24-28 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ajoy Kumar and Srinivas Kandikonda from Virtusa Corporation, a global IT services company, join to discuss their experience with data warehousing and ECM solutions. Both will be at the Information on Demand Conference 2010 in Las Vegas, Oct 24-28.

What’s new on developerWorks, plus dW Editor in Chief Michael O'Connell talks about the results of a new developerWorks user survey.