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

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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.

Hyperic and the Management Landscape in Java-land

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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.

Eclipse EMF Demo – A complete modeling platform for Java

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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 as a larger Flash version.

Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Demo

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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.

iPhone: One Week Later

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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 (like knowing the iPhone agent ID, CSS, and the tel and mailto protocols for URLs), integration with corporate IT, and then the drawbacks of trying to do everything at once on the iPhone.

Europa Mylyn Demo – Task Management and Context Filtering for Teams

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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 contexts” which focus your code-base and related project down to just the items related to a task. These task contexts are saved with the task and can be shared among the team to get highly-focused views of the project, cutting away the inevitable clutter that even the most successful projects encounter.

For a larger version, see the large video or the even larger Flash video.

Disclaimer: the Eclipse Foundation is client, and this screencast was sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation.