John Swanson runs down the week’s highlights, and then Ami Dewar, Design Lead for developerWorks, and Nick Poore, dW Community Architect, join me to talk about the new developerWorks iPhone app. See Nick and Ami’s related article, Developing a social networking iPhone application based on IBM Lotus Connections 2.5.

Andy talks with Avinash Agrawal and Jon Richards, program manager and senior engineer on the setiQuest project, about the program and the open source software behind it. setiQuest taps the global brain trust, harnesses the power of citizen scientists, and seeks to improve current searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and our understanding of our place in the cosmos.

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc., IBM's largest service partner. He joins Andy Glover to talk about the broad and often vague role of software architect. With his extensive background in engineering and architecture, Ken shares his thoughts on the experience needed and the ideal path to achieving the level of architect, and what lies beyond it.

What’s new on developerWorks, plus dW Editor in Chief Michael O'Connell talks about the results of a new developerWorks user survey.

David Boloker is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. He joined me to talk about Project Blue Spruce, which he describes as “a telepresence light solution.” This browser-based cooperative platform is built with open source technologies OpenAjax Hub, eJabber, and the Dojo Toolkit, and incorporates freely available IBM video and audio standards. David shares use cases and talks about the small workgroup target audience for Blue Spruce.

Steven Adler, Program Director for IBM Data Governance Solutions, talks about what companies face in the data governance space and some key elements in a successful program. Steve will be keynoting at the Information on Demand Global Conference coming up Oct 24-28 in Las Vegas, NV. Also, you can follow his related website, infogovcommunity.com.

We look at what's hot this week on dW then turn to the three winners of this summer's Do You DB2? essay contest, sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group. Michael Krafick and Sigen Chen are both senior database administrators at their respective companies. And Nadir Doctor is a DB2 consultant and IBM information champion. All three wrote short essays on their use of DB2 products and share those success stories with us.

Bill Chamberlin is a member of IBM's Corporate Market Intelligence team which supports the IBM Corporate Strategy and Marketing organization with market insights research. He founded the blog, HorizonWatching, that looks at emerging business issues, trends, and technologies. Bill joins Todd Watson and I for a chat about the three smarter planet pillars of new intelligence, interconnectedness, and an instrumented world.

Andy Glover interviews concurrency expert Alex Miller on his favorite topic, concurrency, as well as his recent article on GPars, the multicore future, and more. Alex works at Revelytix, building federated semantic web query products. Before that, he was technical lead at Terracotta, an engineer at BEA Systems, and chief architect at MetaMatrix. Alex tweets as @puredanger and blogs at Pure Danger Tech. He also founded the Lambda Lounge group for the study of functional and dynamic languages and the Strange Loop developer conference.

Andy Glover continues his interview with concurrency expert Alex Miller on his favorite topic, concurrency, as well as his recent article on GPars, the multicore future, and more.