Andy Piper from the IBM Hursley Lab joins to talk about making the most of remote reporting devices with WebSphere MQ Telemetry. And, we run down this week's dW highlights.

What's new this week on dW, plus Sandy Carter, IBM's Lead for Business Partners, and IBM technology evangelist Todd Watson join for a chat about a new social media survey and an IBM social media skills initiative announced this week.

How about an insight engine application that runs in a browser for domain experts to explore data at web scale? That's called Big Sheets. In this episode, Stephen Watt, a software architect and Emerging Technologies Hadoop Lead at IBM, and Dan Gisolfi, an IBM Software Group Strategy Architect talk about the data deluge, Apache Hadoop, and Big Sheets. Also see Stephen's dW article, Deriving New Business Insights With Big Data.

Brian Snitzer, Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Global Technology Services, is back with an update on enhancements to IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud, including VPN/VLAN, dual site support, and premium support 24x7.

This week, the technically curious Andrew Glover interviews Stuart Halloway, co-founder of Relevance, Inc. and the author of Programming Clojure. They discuss the Clojure language and Halloway explains the two main reasons the language has been quickly adopted and is rising rapidly in popularity: It unleashes the power of the JVM and it gives Java programmers the Lisp ability to focus tightly on software development.

Andrew Glover -- developer, author, speaker, entrepreneur -- and the developerWorks Java zone introduce a new technical podcast series. Follow the technically curious Glover each week as he provides a new way to input knowledge from the sources you trust most. This week, Andrew interviews Matthew McCullough on Git, the open source distributed versioning system.

The Turbodacious one is back in fine form with a humorous take on forgetting your Windows password.

This Week on developerWorks, John Swanson talks a Ruby on Rails focus, we run down the week's highlights, and developerWorks' Leah Ketring joins to talk about both her job as a web manager focused on supporting dW's international web sites and her blog -- i18n, L10n, and me.

New content for the week, a request for your dW user stories, and a chat with IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell who is at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon this week. Doug shares thoughts from the week. And check out his tweets from the convention.

Watts Humphrey continues on the team software process and team-building, recognizing problems, when social networking tools help and when they don't, challenges that have come with progress, and more. His latest book is "Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself."