This week we hear from both Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM, and Theresa Quatrani, Rational's Technical Event Content Lead. Grady is a favorite speaker and teacher among software developers and well-known for many things, including his work as a co-developer of the Unified Modeling Language. Theresa plays a key role in putting on the IBM Rational Innovate Conference. Both will help us preview what's coming up at Innovate 2011, June 5-9 in Orlando, Florida.

R is an open source, object-oriented, flexible language for statistical analysis — with powerful visualization capabilities. As businesses become more data driven, R is finding itself at the center of the business analytics storm. Find out how you can leverage R in your work and how it can assist you in an increasingly data driven world.

Kerrie Holley, an IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM's SOA Center for Excellence, and Dr Ali Arsanjani, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and and Chief Architect for the Center join to talk about their book, 100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered. We cover the impetus for the book, how SOA helps businesses align IT and business processes, how SOA methods are fostering new development roles, and the progress that has been made in challenge areas like security and testing.

CouchOne and Membase joined forces to produce Couchbase, a NoSQL solution that provides the elasticity and high performance of CouchDB with traditional features like queries and indexing. Join Andy and Couchbase cofounder James Phillips as they discuss the brave new world of fast and safe web applications.

This Week on developerWorks, we check in with John Swanson on dW newsletters focus, run down the home page headlines, and talk to developerWorks Community lead, Branavan Ganesan, about the IBM Champion Program and what it means for developerWorks users.

This Week on developerWorks, we check in with John Swanson on dW newsletters focus, run down the home page headlines, and talk to Director of developerWorks, Alice Chou, and developerWorks Community lead, Branavan Ganesan about the IBM Champion Program and what it means for developerWorks users.

Curt Cotner is an IBM Fellow as well as VP and CTO for Database Servers at IBM. He's joins the podcast to talk about DB2 SQL Skin, which is all about reducing the cost and risk of moving applications from Sybase to DB2. He talks about the challenges of migrating, and how DB2 SQL Skin makes it simpler and faster by eliminating the need to modify client applications or retrain the end-users sending in the queries.

AppDynamic's Director of Engineering talks about three main issues (the advent of the cloud, agility, and low-cost memory) that affect performance in this informative podcast.

Today's dynamic development landscape presents a nightmare for security experts, but short of "stopping the train," what can you do to ensure a proactive approach to security? In this engaging conversation, John Steven combines his abilities as a software developer with his expertise in security to help us avoid a reactive model and prevent breaches before they occur.

Linda Grigoleit, IBM Power Systems marketing, and Kent Milligan, a senior IT specialist from IBM Lab Services and Training, join me to talk about a new topic area on developerWorks for IBM System i. We touch on what IBM i is and the content categories in the new zone, including an IBM i overview, a technical Library, forums, technical updates, tools and downloads, and related event information.