IBM developerWorks podcasts

Travis Grigsby is a developer with IBM Software Group Emerging Standards, and is the co-author of a new developerWorks article on Web Services for Point of Service applications. He talks about working on the specification and about the enhanced mobility of POS devices and apps to come.

dW editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with Senior VP and Group Executive for IBM Software Group, Steve Mills. Steve speaks from his unique vantage point on important trends in software and shares lessons learned from decades of serving clients and customers. He also talks about the experience of heading up IBM's widely distributed software development organization of 33,000 strong.

Rational Team Concert product lead, Kartik Kanakasabesan, gives an update on the GA of RTC and two beta test partners, Ascendant Technology and Noblestar, join to talk about their RTC projects and the value of Rational Team Concert.

Developer Millard Ellingsworth is the author of this week's developerWorks feature article on "How to use the Scrum project management method with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform," and he talks about it here. Millard encourages adoption of agile development as a member of the IBM Enterprise Content Management group. He serves his team as ScrumMaster and others as an Agile Coach and workshop leader.

Nick Chase, freelance developer and regular dW contributor, talks about Second Life and his new tutorial on tracking spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen.

IBM Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy, Scott Hebner, talks with Michael O about highlights from the conference, growth in attendance, increasing enthusiasm for and community around the Jazz platform, and the ever-growing focus on software as a strategic asset.

IBM Distinguished Engineer and Jazz technical lead, Erich Gamma, talks with Michael O'Connell about the open development of the Jazz platform and where things are headed.

In a podcast interview from the rational Software Development Conference 2008, Walker Royce, VP of Worldwide Rational Lab Services, talks about customers efforts to simplify, improve governance and collaboration, and add automation.

Hayden Lindsey, IBM Distinguished Engineer and VP of the tools and compilers group, talks about the challenges of enterprise modernization going into detail about the five key types.

Danny Sabbah, GM of IBM Rational, spent a few minutes with Michael O'Connell talking about some of the things Rational is doing to interact with and listen more to customers, including an increased focus on clarity around business value.

Martin Nally, IBM Fellow and Rational Chief Technology Officer, talks with Michael O'Connell about RSDC conference announcements and their value proposition from a developer perspective, the open source opportunities around the Jazz platform, Jazz integration on the Internet, and the Telelogic acquisition.

Michael O'Connell is pounding the pavement at RSDC 2008 this week and he caught up today with Beth Friday, Rational VP of Worldwide Client Support. Beth talks about the work her team is doing to support Rational clients including the new Rational RFE Community.

Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of Software Engineering for IBM Research, talks with Michael O about the cool stuff that keeps him awake each day - mentoring customers around architectural transformation, work on the Handbook of Software Archtecture, platforms for collaboration, multicore development, and virtual worlds.

Scott Ambler, Rational Practice Leader of Agile development, spent a few minutes chatting with Michael O'Connell today at RSDC 2008. Scott talks about the work he has been doing to promote more adoption of Agile development.

Jake Miles, freelance developer and senior analyst for Conde Nast, previews his new three-part tutorial series on Mastering Facebook application development with PHP, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2.