IBM developerWorks podcasts episodes:

• October 30, 2007developerWorks Interviews: Matt Hogstrom on Geronimo and WebSphere CE

  Matt Hogstrom, architect for Geronimo-based IBM WebSphere Application

  Server Community Edition and a Geronimo committer, talks about the strengths of

  Apache Geronimo and what's new in V2.0, including support for Java Platform,

  Enterprise Edition 5. He talks about the idea behind WebSphere Community Edition,

  IBM's free application server based on the Geronimo code. Getting involved with the

  Geronimo community and what's ahead for Geronimo are also

  discussed.

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• October 24, 2007"Did you say Mainframe!?": Deploying to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform with help from WebSphere

  Ron Craig takes a look at how this new version of HATS helps users

  deploy to the Eclipse Rich Client platform. He also discusses additional development

  capabilities provided by HATS V7.0.

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• October 23, 2007Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Watchfire's Mike Weider on web application security

  Michael Weider, CTO of Watchfire, an IBM company, explains Web

  appplication attacks and shares a top-10 list to help organizations focus on the

  most serious Web application security vulnerabilities. He looks at how IT

  organizations are addressing these exposure points and shares some best practices

  that have been gleaned from his work with Watchfire.

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• October 12, 2007developerWorks Interviews: Krugle and code search

  The recent addition of code search functionality on developerWorks is

  huge. For this podcast, Ken Krugler, co-founder of code search company Krugle, and

  Laura Merling, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Krugle, join

  to talk about how it works and what it means.

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• October 09, 2007Spotlight on IBM software solutions: The growing importance of enterprise modernization

  In this 26-minute podcast, Hayden Lindsey, Rational® vice president for

  enterprise tools and compilers, defines enterprise modernization and talks about the

  five key areas of business and IT focus: assets, architecture, skills, processes and

  tools, and development investments. He introduces the related IBM offerings and

  shares his views on why getting clear about the place and purpose of IT in an

  enterprise, and the need for modernization in the five critical areas, is so

  important.

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• October 03, 2007"Did you say Mainframe!?": Connecting core applications in a highly available, scalable, and secure way

  Dermot Flaherty talks about one of the ways to connect core applications

  hosted on IBM System z (CICS applications, for example), to other distributed

  applications. He also explores why many organizations are under increasing pressure

  to do this, and he discusses one solution: IBM WebSphere® MQ for

  z/OS.

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• September 25, 2007developerWorks Interviews: Massive data mining and the resurgent mainframe

  Paul Cronan drives the ERP curriculum, and David Douglas is a university

  professor in information systems, both at the University of Arkansas, Walton School

  of Business. In this 18-minute talk, Cronan and Douglas talk about the resurgence of

  mainframe computing, its effect on academic curricula, and the massive data-mining

  system they are building to share with faculty and students at other

  institutions.

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• September 18, 2007Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Performance testing portal applications

  In this 17-minute podcast, Brian Bryson, technology evangelist for IBM

  Rational Quality Management Tools, gives an overview of performance testing in

  general, then looks at the specific challenges of performance testing applications

  in a portal environment. He talks about Rational Performance Tester as a tremendous

  time-saver from the standpoint of data referencing, simple reports, and root-cause

  analysis. He closes with some suggestions for education and a trial download with

  Rational Performance Tester.

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• September 14, 2007"Did you say Mainframe!?": TXSeries like you have never seen it before — The next generation of distributed CICS

  Wen Lu talks about IBM TXSeries, the version of IBM CICS for distributed

  platforms. Wen also discusses why TXSeries® is of interest to mainframe CICS users —

  in particular, how they can use TXSeries to test newly developed mainframe

  applications by running them on a desktop machine.

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• September 14, 2007"Did you say Mainframe!?": Using IBM discovery tools to understand existing and composite applications

  Daniel Moul talks about how IBM discovery tools, such as IBM WebSphere

  Studio Asset Analyzer and Asset Transformation Workbench, help users discover and

  understand mainframe applications and composite applications, (applications with

  components on both the mainframe and distributed platforms).

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