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.

Bringing The Coolness to enterprise software – SAP Colgate-Palmolive Imagineering

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In this interview from SAP SAPPHIRE 2007, talks with Colgate-Palmolive developers Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney about their Imagineering Fellowship with SAP. After showing their development skills with projects like SAPLink and layering Ruby on Rails on-top of SAP’s platform, Ed and Dan were selected to help SAP innovate new and exciting technologies on-top of their platform, business intellegence in particular.

Disclaimer: SAP is a client.

Reporting with Eclipse Europa BIRT

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Cote talks with Virgil Dodson, Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate about the new features in Eclipse BIRT. BIRT is an Eclipse project that allows you to connect to various data sources, build reports with those sources, and the UIs needed for your end-users to view those reports.

After a brief chat on the topic of BIRT and reporting in general, Virgil gives us a demo of the latest features in the upcoming BIRT 2.2.0 release.

For a larger version, check out the full size MP4 video or the larger Flash version.

This episode was sponsored by The Eclipse Foundation.

OSGi on the Server-side: Eclipse Europa Equinox Demo

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In this screencast, Coté talks with Eclipse Equinox project lead Jeff McAffer about the new version of the Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework in Eclipse Europa. We see a demo of the the new server-side capabilities in Equinox and the development model used. The notion of “modules” and “components” is fast becoming an important topic in the Java world so it’s interesting to see the Eclipse platform’s framework moving from the desktop to the server.

A larger version of the MP4 video is available as well, as is a larger Flash version.

Disclaimer: Eclipse is a client and sponsored this video.

Open Source, SOA, and the Next-generation Data Center (Panel from OSBC ’07)

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In this collection of highlights from the OSBC 2007 panel with the same name, Coté talks with Akash Garg (CTO, hi5 Networks, Dave Rosenberg (CEO and co-founder, MuleSource, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder (Chairman & CEO, about open source and Service Oriented Architectures. They cover the complexity of the “WS-Deathstar” stack, the role of open source in enterprise middle-ware, how virtualization positively effects data centers and development, SaaS’s effect on middleware, and potential uses of Amazon EC2.

Thanks to OSBC for permission to use the video, and be sure to check out next year’s OSBC, March 25-26, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.