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  • Snow-balls vs. Fractals, and how Flat World Theory is Killing the Earth

    While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with Ali and Roger about IBM’s efforts to dissiminate SOA best practices and knowledge, or, “excellence.” In the course of the discusion, they go over how IBM provides training and assistance world-wide, if snow-balls or fractals are better metaphors for scaling up and down SOAs, and how the “world is flat” think seems to be doing enviornmental harm.

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  • Robert LeBlanc on IBM SOA Consulting

    While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor speaks with IBM’s Robert LeBlanc about IBM’s SOA consultancy services. They talk about competing against other outsourcers, avoiding being just a body shop, and the value of co-creation with clients.

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  • Sandy Carter on IBM SOA Education, BPM Games, and the SOA Business Catalog

    While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with IBM’s Sandy Carter about IBM’s SOA education efforts. They talk about using Second Life, the Business Process Simulator game, and the IBM SOA Business Catalog.

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  • Hyperic and the Management Landscape in Java-land

    Coté and James talk with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. They talk about SIGAR Hyperic’s, open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- vs. multi-source open source development and what it means to be an open source company, comparisons to Wily as far as trouble-shooting, and finally the Java middle-ware landscape that Hyperic finds in its customer base.

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  • Eclipse EMF Demo, Large

    Below is a larger version of the EMF demo:

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  • IT with Paul – The One Man IT Department at San Jose and Jo’s

    Coté talks with Paul Terry Walhus about running IT for Austin’s Hotel San Jose and Jo’s coffee house. We go over the setup between different locations and then check out the data center.

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  • Eclipse EMF Demo – A complete modeling platform for Java

    Coté talks with Ed Merks about the Eclipse Modeling Framework project, or EMF. Ed gives us a quick overview of the framework and new features and then walks us through designing a model in EMF, generating code, and then round-tripping back and forth. Watching the demo you can see how EMF could be used to create data models at the begining of a project and then maintain them throughout. There is a larger version of the video available, as well [...]

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  • Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Demo

    Cote talks with John Graham about the newest version of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform, or DTP, in Eclipse Europa. John shows us how to use DTP as database navigator, goes over the platform offerings for establishing connections and extracting models for various data sources, and then shows us some helpful DbUnit integration that DTP provides. There’s a larger Flash version available, as well as a larger video.

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  • Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Demo

    Below is the large Flash version of the Eclipse DTP demo:

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  • iPhone: One Week Later

    Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s pleasure at finally having a smart-phone that meets his expectations, using the mobile Web to to find things like good Chinese food while he’s out, the different developer integration points and hooks [...]

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  • Europa Mylyn Demo – Task Management and Context Filtering for Teams

    Coté talks with Mik Kersten of the Eclipse Mylyn team about the most recent version of Mylyn (formally Mylar) in Eclipse Europa. In a brief video segment, Mik gives us a quick overview of Mylyn’s goals as a task and “task context” plugin to Eclipse. Mylyn integrates with issue and task tracking applications like BugZilla, trac, and Rally, giving Eclipse users a normalized and team-driven GUI for task management. Tightly-linked to tasks is the idea of creating and managing “task [...]

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  • Europa Mylyn Demo – Task Management and Context Filtering for Teams (Large)

    Mylyn (formally Mylar) is the latest episode in RedMonkTV’s Eclipse Europa screencast series. Below is a very large version of the screencast for those who’d like a detailed look: Disclaimer: Eclipse is a client and sponsored this screencast.

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