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.

While at the RedHat Summit this year I talked with Aaron Darcy about RedHat's recent announcement of beta support for running JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon EC2, currently in beta. In addition to the general idea, we talk about the types or things customers may do or are looking to do with this offering. Also, I get an update on JBoss in general.

Disclaimer: RedHat is a client.

In the last of our RSDC video series I had the chance to talk with John Simonds of IBM Analyst Relations. We spend our time talking about how John uses Web 2.0 tools and concepts to help out with his day-to-day analyst relations. For example, we talk about his use of Twitter several times with a couple of examples of how he and other IBM AR staff have monitored analysts Twitter streams to find things they need help with.

We then discuss blogging, esp. as it relates to Twitter. Check-out some of the photos of John's from RSDC include "Mr. Black Socks," and also the video he mentions.

Finally, I ask John about the tags they've been coming using for events like ibmrsdc08 for RSDC this year. At the end, I squeak in some therapy for my (personally) vexing issue of two or four character dates in tags – "08" vs. "2008."

Disclaimer: IBM is a client, paid for T&E to RSDC, and sponsored this video.

While at RSDC, Stephen O'Grady and I had the chance to talk with Dave Klavon (Director Quality and Requirements Management, Rational). We start out by quickly walking through the Rational testing and requirements management portfolio, and then dive into the testing silo.

We talk about testing in general and at the end get into a discussion about which aspects of the testing chain would do well in hosted, either as a SaaS or just in infrastructure in the cloud.

Disclaimer: IBM is a client, paid for T&E to RSDC, and sponsored this video.

While at RSDC, Stephen O'Grady and I had the chance to talk with Dave Klavon (Director Quality and Requirements Management, Rational). We start out by quickly walking through the Rational testing and requirements management portfolio, and then dive into the testing silo.

We talk about testing in general and at the end get into a discussion about which aspects of the testing chain would do well in hosted, either as a SaaS or just in infrastructure in the cloud.

Disclaimer: IBM is a client, paid for T&E to RSDC, and sponsored this video.

While at RSDC I had the chance to talk with Mike O'Rourke, VP of Development for IBM Rational. We started out talking about the productized Jazz, Rational Team Concert. Then I ask Mike to tell us about the types of customers and users Rational targets in general – ISVs, corporate developers, or others? Finally, being from BuildForge (acquired by IBM not too long ago), I ask Mike about new innovations and thinking in the build world.

Disclaimer: IBM is a client, paid for T&E to RSDC, and sponsored this video.