IBM developerWorks podcasts

Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about his new article, "Social networking open source visualization aids: Using Graphviz, the Google Chart API, and CAIDA's plot-latlong tool to analyze your social networks' attributes." And we run down the other titles highlighted this week.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson joined us for a year-ender to talk about the ideas from his Wired article and forthcoming book on free and the future of business.

Popular developerWorks blogger Todd Watson riffs on some of the top search words of 2008 and his own experiences with places and events surrounding them.

Chris Rothemich, developerWorks editor for Business Process management, SOA and Web services content, introduces the new Business Process Management Journal.

Holly Hayes, Data Studio Program Manager for IBM talks about Model Driven Data Governance. She outlines big concerns companies are facing such as dilution of brand value, loss of revenue, and compliance, and talks about present and future solutions including model-driven data governance.

Bernie Spang, director of marketing IBM data management software, talks about the XML Challenge sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) running now through Feb 1 2009. He talks about the levels of achievement in the contest, the state of XML skill adoption, and more.

Paul Reiners, a software engineer at IBM and Sun-certified Java programmer is the author of a developerWorks Java technology zone article, Pointillism meets pixelation: Using the Java 2D API to animate art. He talks about it here.

IBM software engineers Fiona Lam and John Robertson co-authored of a new tutorial series on creating stand-alone Web services applications with Eclipse and Java SE 6. They talk about the series, focusing on Part 1 which is on the Web service server application.

developerworks' David Salinas gives a quick update on new features in the Rational RFE Community site.

IBM's Irshad Raihan talks about the XML Challenge sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) running now through Feb 1 2009. He desribes the contest, levels of participation, prizes, and talks about IDUG.

Alex Rodriguez, a software engineer at IBM focused on Java 2 EE development and RESTful web services,talks about his feature article this week, RESTful Web Services: The Basics. He talks about what REST is, the need that it fills, and recommends additional learning resources.

Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor talks about his developerWorks highlighted article this week on reducing your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitoring. He talks about general approaches relevant for all modern OSs, but offers a specific example on the Linux platform.

John Wiegand, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Rational Chief Software Architect , and Steve Abrams from the Rational CTO Team and Lead architect for the OSLC talk about the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration Initiative. Hear about the latest with the Jazz platform, the challenges of integration, and the basics and benefits of the open services approach.

Nathan Good, a freelance software developer from the twin cities area of Minnesota, talks aout his developerWorks feature article, "Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP."

Daniel Lewis, a freelance technology evangelist and post-graduate student at the University of Bristol talks about his feature article on this week's developerWorks homepage, Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web.