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  • Jazz Update from EclipseCon with Erich Gamma

    Jazz Update from EclipseCon with Erich Gamma

    Click to Play Once again, I ad the pleasure of talking with Erich Gamma, currently lead of the IBM Rational Jazz project. We catch up on the recent developments in the Jazz world, discuss managing large, geo-distributed teams, and then talk about the upcoming release of Rational Team Concert, based on Jazz. We start out discussing the different parts of Jazz as I observe that I tend to think of Jazz as one unit when, in fact, there are several [...]

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  • A short history of OSGi with MakeWave’s Christer Larsson

    A short history of OSGi with MakeWave’s Christer Larsson

    Click to Play While at EclipseCon 2008, I had the chance to talk with Christer Larsson on Makewave, the folks behind the Knopflerfish OSGi runtime. We talk about some of the scenarios that Makewave’s customers use OSGi for and then jump into an interesting overview of how OSGi got to where it is today. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: eclipse, eclipsecon, knopflerfish, opensource, osgi, makewave, java

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  • OSGi and ProSyst at EclipseCon 2008

    OSGi and ProSyst at EclipseCon 2008

    Click to Play While at EclipseCon 2008, I had the chance to talk with Joachim Ritter and Roman Roelofsen of ProSyst. As we discuss, ProSyst works with OSGi from the classic mobile space to the more recent server-side. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: eclipsecon, osgi, prosyst

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  • GroundWork Monitor 5.2 – David Dennis, Part 2

    GroundWork Monitor 5.2 – David Dennis, Part 2

    Click to Play In the second part of this two part interview, I continue talking with David Dennis, Senior Director of Product Marketing at GroundWork Open Source. Here, we go over a general overview of what GroundWork Monitor is, namely, an integrated combination of different open source IT Management projects and stacks. As David notes, they’re no limited to working with just open source stacks, being able to integrate with any piece of IT Management software that has an interface [...]

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  • GroundWork Open Source in IT Management – David Dennis, Part 1

    GroundWork Open Source in IT Management – David Dennis, Part 1

    Click to Play In the first part of this two part interview, I talk with David Dennis, Senior Director of Product Marketing at GroundWork Open Source. GroundWork has a new release, so I take this time to ask David how GroundWork’s been doing and what type of deployments they find themselves in, that is, where GroundWork is fitting in in the overall IT Management stack. David uses a brief explanation of the theory of comparative advantage to explain GroundWork’s theory [...]

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  • RIA Weekly #10 – SXSW Wrap-up, Knocking Out Google’s Lights, Micro-ISVs

    RIA Weekly #10 – SXSW Wrap-up, Knocking Out Google’s Lights, Micro-ISVs

    Click to Play At the tail-end of SXSWi in Austin, Ryan Stewart and I wrap-up what we've seen and done at SXSW, more or less relevant to RIA land. As we note, the main thing at SXSW is hanging out with people during the day and late into the night. Indeed, I didn't even manage to go to any sessions. We also talk about the theory that Microsoft could use Silverlight to make parts of the web "go dark" for [...]

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  • Improving Agile Development Teams with 6th Sense Analytics and Atlassian JIRA

    Improving Agile Development Teams with 6th Sense Analytics and Atlassian JIRA

    Click to Play In this screencast, I talk with 6th Sense Analytics‘s Jared Richardson about the 6th Sense product for collecting and learning from development team metrics. He walks us through different scenerios for tracking down how time is actually spent in development and talks us through how that knowledge can be used to create a better and more productive development experience. He also shows us how 6th Sense integrates with Atlassian‘s JIRA to stream line this process and help [...]

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  • RIA Weekly Special 001 – Adobe Enage 2008: Sprout Builder and Flex at BEA

    RIA Weekly Special 001 – Adobe Enage 2008: Sprout Builder and Flex at BEA

    Click to Play While at Adobe Engage 2008 Cot Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: enage, ria, riaweekly, bea, flex, sproutbuilder, cote, ryanstewart

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