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LANINGHAM: Welcome to this week on developerWorks.
I'm Scott Laningham in Austin, Texas.
Before we cover what's new on the developerWorks website this week, I did want to remind viewers
and listeners of the interviews that we did
at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Orlando last week.
We had a lot of conversations with thought leaders in social business
and this more customer-centric age that is really being empowered by technology innovation.
So a lot of good interviews there to follow on our blog at ibm.co/scottlaningham, my name.
S-C-O-T-T Lotus-A-N-I-N-G-H-A-M.
It's long, yes.
We'll come up with something more creative here in the near future but anyway.
And one other quick thing to mention before John joins us.
I want to mention a new 60-day free trial to test drive the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
for a hands on experience with a flexible, security rich virtual server environment.
And you can check that out at ibm.com/developerworks/cloud and look
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We call it all those things now.
John Swanson joins us now from his home in Wakefield, Massachusetts,
to talk about what he's focusing on in the developerWorks newsletter this week.
Hi, John. Good to see you.
SWANSON: Hey Scott.
Always good to see you.
Been a few weeks.
LANINGHAM: You always have a new exciting angle for us in the house.
You have infinite angles to use for backdrops.
SWANSON: Always trying to find a new...
LANINGHAM: I like this one.
SWANSON: I'm not sure I always achieve that.
But this week kind of taking a look back now.
I've been with developerWorks since the first year or so.
You've been around since then.
Right? LANINGHAM: Well, yes.
Like the early 2000s certainly.
SWANSON: Yes.
And in fact, I think at one point you were doing what I'm doing now: newsletters.
LANINGHAM: That's right.
It's a great gig.
SWANSON: Something cool like that.
And you did a great job.
And I have big shoes to fill.
LANINGHAM: No.
You fill them thoroughly.
SWANSON: Well, I'm trying.
And this week, we're talking about basically taking a look back
at where developerWorks began.
It's been just about 13 years since developerWorks started,
and that time has gone really fast, of course.
But if you remember back when we got started we did a lot of articles and tutorials
about open source solutions and IBM products.
And that was really the bread and butter of what we were all about: articles and tutorials.
LANINGHAM: Right.
SWANSON: And some other stuff, but that's really what we were doing.
And this week, of course, September there's always a lot going on but this week I'm noticing
that we've got a bunch of things going on that harken back to those days.
There's a series on the open source section of developerWorks: a series on Spring Roo,
which is in high gear and we're up to Part 7 of that.
But the Spring Roo series is hugely popular.
Of course, Spring Roo is a lightweight productivity tool for the Java platform
that makes it easy to develop Spring-based applications, and this week we've got Parts 6
and 7, which, Part 6 talks about new features
in Spring Roo 1.2 including the MongoDB...including support for MongoDB.
And Part 7 talks about using Spring Roo to develop Spring MongoDB applications.
So getting really into, although the series is about an introduction to Spring Roo,
it really is getting into the details there.
LANINGHAM: Okay.
SWANSON: So that's sort of the Open Source side of what's going on.
And okay, over on the products side we've got three articles on Rational Focal Point.
I'm chatting this week, by the way.
In case you didn't notice.
LANINGHAM: There's a lot to talk about.
There's a lot to talk about.
SWANSON: There's actually a lot more; this is the tip of the iceberg.
But there are three articles about Rational Focal Point all coming
out at once, which I thought was noteworthy.
And Rational Focal Point, these articles show you how to use Rational Focal Point
to determine your return on investment.
Also, you can use Rational Focal Point to take snapshots of investment
and analysis data and how to track project status.
Really, it's all about getting your money's worth
and making the most...maximizing your bottom line.
And of course, everybody, no matter what your role is in the company, you've got to be keeping
that in the back of your head as you move forward.
LANINGHAM: Thank you for those words, John, and that information.
There's always a lot of new content on the site.
More than we can ever cover in any given week.
But we do want to mention the other two items that were featured on the homepage this week.
From the Agile transformation topic area there's a piece
on Agile DevOps: Infrastructure automation.
Author Paul Duvall is the CTO at Stelligent, and he has these introductory words
from a video he presents in the piece.
DUVALL: Hi, everyone.
This is Paul Duvall.
I'm the author of the Agile DevOps series on IBM developerWorks.
In this screencast I'll be going over infrastructure automation,
and there's an associated article with this on IBM developerWorks.
You see the snippet here.
I go over examples in Chef and Puppet and talk about the whole idea
of scripting environments and infrastructure automation.
In this screencast... [VOICE FADE]
LANINGHAM: Author Paul Duvall talking about his new article on developerWorks,
Agile DevOps: Infrastructure Automation.
Also from the business analytics topic we have using Hadoop with Couchbase.
And Martin Brown is the VP of Technical Publications
at Couchbase and authored this piece.
Hadoop is great for processing large quantities of data and resolving that information
down into a smaller set of information that you can query.
However, the processing time for that process can be huge.
By integrating with Couchbase Server, you can do live querying and reporting
on information while continuing to work with Hadoop for the large data set
and heavy processing of the data set.
Couchbase Server also uses a MapReduce querying system which makes it easy for you to migrate
and integrate your indexing and querying system to extract
and manipulate the information effectively.
Again, that one is Using Hadoop with Couchbase, and it's a business analytics topic.
A new business analytics topic area on developerWorks.
And we'll be having the editor for that topic, Veneatra Reid,
come on and visit with us some time soon, John, to give us more of a scoop
on what's going on with that new area.
That's a very, very hot topic industry wide and will be for us as well, I think.
SWANSON: Yes.
Indeed. She's got...she's in charge of one
of the more cutting-edge sections of the site right now.
LANINGHAM: Let me tell you just one more thing.
Of course, find out about all of this at ibm.com/developerworks.
We do have a new interview this week in our interview series separate This Week
on developerWorks that we want to mention.
Of course, we did talk about all the stuff from Smarter Commerce,
but we have a new conversation this week as well with Ian Story, who is a Senior Product Manager
with IBM's Enterprise Content Management product line.
And Ian talks about IBM Content Navigator, a new user interface
for Enterprise Content Management Systems.
In that conversation we touch on the data challenges of structured and unstructured data,
multiple repositories dealing with that and the need for workflow and collaboration
and how IBM Content Navigator unifies the experience for IBM ECM repositories.
It's standards based and includes innovative features for content collaboration.
And you can see that interview with Ian Story on IBM Content Navigator
on our blog this week, ibm.co/scottlaningham.
John, what do you got planned for the rest of the week?
Anything exciting?
SWANSON: The rest of the week I'm just going
to absorb this fantastic California weather we're having up here.
LANINGHAM: Yes.
We're having that, too.
It's wonderful.
I wonder if California got our weather.
I hope not.
SWANSON: May everyone get this wonderful, wonderful season that we're getting right now.
LANINGHAM: Let's go back outside next week.
What do you say?
I'll go out into the arbor; you go in the back porch and let's enjoy this weather,
and let's share it with our listeners and viewers.
What do you say?
SWANSON: Weather permitting, let's make it happen.
LANINGHAM: All right.
John Swanson, my good friend in Boston...Wakefield,
Massachusetts, the Greater Boston area.
Editor of the developerWorks newsletter, which you can subscribe to and you should subscribe
to this customized newsletter at ibm.com/developerworks/newsletter.
This is the developerWorks podcast.
I'm Scott Laningham.
Talk to you next time.
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