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introduction to virtual patterns and their use in the cloud for building expertise into applications and systems.

Jeffrey Douglas explains online fraud today: What it costs the consumer (ultimately!) and how sophisticated it can be.

This week on developerWorks, Millard Ellingsworth explains how to make Scrum teams productive via "backlog grooming" with Rational Team Concert, Vikram Vaswani demonstrates how to create REST apps with the Slim PHP micro-framework, and more.

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Scott Laningham and John Swanson run down new content highlights on a new series on Agile DevOps, Spring Roo, Using Hadoop with Couchbase, investment analysis with IBM Rational Focal Point, an IBM SmartCloud Enterprise 60 day free trial, and more.

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Scott Laningham interviews Ian Story a Senior Product Manager for IBM ECM business They talk about the data challenges of structured and unstructured content, multiple repositories, and the need for workflow and collaboration, then how IBM Content Navigator unifies the experience for IBM ECM repositories

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS TWOdW: Data analytics process more important than ever to support smart commerce

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Scott Laningham takes a quick look at four new content pieces on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for software developers and other IT professionals

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Rich Holada, VP for IBM Predictive Analytics joins Scott Laningham on the developerWorks podcast to talk about bringing strategy around big data, social media, and automation/optimization together to help companies support and inform business decisions.

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Scott Laningham completes the Wisconsin remote podcasting experience for 2012 and talks briefly about two new developerWorks sites, one focused on Agile transformation content and the other on Commerce. Find this and more on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for developers worldwide with tools, code, and education on IBM products and open standards technology.

IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS Scott Laningham talks with Eric O'neill, a product manager on the IBM Master Data Management team, about reference data -- what it is, challenges around it, how to manage it, and how InfoSphere RDM Hub helps. Eric will be speaking at Information On Demand 2012, the week of October 21-25. Get more information and register to attend at http://www.ibm.com/events/informationondemand.