New IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS content highlights for the week of Aug 15-22. John Swanson joins Scott Laningham for a summary of new content on continuous integration in Agile development, understanding representational state transfer in Ruby, and a new knowledge path on IBM Java 7. Calvin Powers is the feature dW staff guest and talks about editing the new security topic area on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for developers worldwide with tools, code, and education on IBM products and open standards technology.

developerWorks' Scott Laningham is joined by regular guest Todd "Turbo" Watson who riffs on technology trends and culture. This time, thoughts on the London Olympics, social media's impact, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, and a preview of some Fall conferences.

New IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS content highlights for the week of Aug 8-15. John Swanson and Steve Curtis join Scott Laningham for a summary of new content on Open Standards in Speech Processing, a new WebSphere Developer Technical Journal, Linux as a scientific computing platform, and dW sites on Cloud Computing and IBM PureSystems -- all on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for developers worldwide with tools, code, and education on IBM products and open standards technology.

New IBM.COM/DEVELOPERWORKS content highlights for the week of July 25-Aug 1. Scott Laningham give summaries on new content on big data analytics for the gaming industry, using the DataPower Web Graphical User Interface, and handling user input in HTML5 Canvas-based games -- all on developerWorks, IBM's premier resource for developers worldwide with tools, code, and education on IBM products and open standards technology.

This week, dW mobile development editor, Tom Young, joins to talk about the popular new developerWorks site focused on learn/try/discuss around mobile, and how the site is helping developers meet the accelerating BYOD needs of businesses. John Swanson checks in with the top highlight for the week, Integrate Google+ activity streams with PHP apps. I wrap it up with sneak peeks at overcoming resistance to enterprise architecture and using Drools and JPA for continuous, real-time data profiling.

developerWork's open source editor Chris Walden and I discuss Eric Raymond's recent blog post that is drawing a lot of attention in IT blogosphere, "Evaluating the harm from closed source."

Hear five innovators explain the real-world, production-level ways they use cloud technologies to meet their IT needs: Big Data, analytics, testing, and mobile security. developerWorks' Robin Langford reports.

It's me, Scott Laningham-Live, and Todd "Turbo" Watson-Simulated, providing our take on the announcements at Innovate 2012 in This Week on developerWorks.

dW open source and linux editor Chris Walden joins me to talk about the open source lifestyle. John Swanson fills us in on the newsletter focus for the week, and I share a brief travelogue from Madrid where I attended the Smarter Commerce Global Summit last week. See interviews from that conference in the blog posts below, including one with Yuchun Lee, once a member of the famed MIT blackjack card counting team and co-founder of Unica, now an IBM company. Next week, watch for our coverage from Innovate (software and systems innovation) and Edge (storage technology), two conferences going on simultaneously in Orlando, Florida.

Near Infinity's Director of Mobile Solutions goes beyond the hype about Node.js to clear up misconceptions and explain what it is (and isn't) and where it's best applied in your applications.