In this three part interview/screencast combo, we talk with Dennis Howlett, Darren Hague, and David Pollak about their work on ESME. Dennis and David spend time talking about how ESME came to be and their involvement, while Darren gives a peek at the code-base by showing us how he added search to ESME.

For a demo of ESME in action and more info, check out the original demo video referred to in a recent post of mine

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Thanks to Dennis, Darren, and David for coming together quickly to record their segments!

Disclosure: SAP is a client and sponsored the above video.

In the first part, Steve gives us an overview of xVM Server, talks about usage scenarios and getting started with xVM Server, and then how it fits in to Sun’s virtualization portfolio.

In the second part, Steve Wilson demo’s xVM Server, showing us the embeded web-based console, browsing libraries of virtual machines, creating a new guest, and looking at activity logs for auditing and other needs. Check out the interesting commentary towards the end about how much ATOM is used in the xVM world:

After a brief face-to-face overview of zembly.com, Todd Fast gives us an extensive demo of what zembly.com is and how it does "social programming."

We walk through the modification of a simple favorite movies application in Facebook, and then dive into how zembly.com helps "casual programmers" develop, find, and extend applications like these.

I liked walking through this demo because you get to see the workflow of creating applications and see the actual features and services that zembly.com provides. Also, I have some fond reminiscences of the Spicegirls and horizontal scrolling.

Todd Fast, CTO of zembly.com gives us a brief overview of what zembly.com is all about: namely, “social programming.” I talk to him about how and why zembly is used to build applications on the web (in the cloud, if you like) for sites like Facebook, Meebo, and other platforms. We discuss the deployment times tools and zembly offers (and could offer in the future) and then wrap-up discussing Sun’s curious method of doing zembly in as an incubator.

Nandini Ramani, Director of Engineering for the JavaFX Platform at Sun, gives us a quick overview of the JavaFX Preview SDK release and then we jump into a description of the common workflow for developing and deploying JavaFX widgets and applications

In this demo of the JavaFX Preview SDK, we start out seeing a demonstration of JavaFX’s video capabilities and then jump into NetBeans to show of several other JavaFX-based widgets

After letting it rest way to long, I finally got around to editing and publishing this short video with Neil Bartlett from EclipseCon 2008.

While at Microsoft TechEd 2008, James and I had the chance to talk with Brian Goldfarb about Silverlight. We start out discussing the new features, libraries, and other parts of the upcoming Silverlight 2.0 (now in beta).

James then asks Brian about the Deep Zoom demo's we'd seen earlier, which leads us into a discussion about using Deep Zoom for document management, or, at least, digital asset management.

We then talk about the availability of Silverlight. The current beta may be used in production – as Hard Rock, NBC, and others are doing – while the final release will come out sometime in the rest of this year.

Disclaimer: Microsoft is a client and paid travel and expenses for TechEd.