Topic: Software Development
Tom Copeland, system administrator of RubyForge.org joins Phil, Matt, and Scott in an assessment of the current state of the Ruby programming language, including a review of the establishment of RubyForge as an alternative to SourceForge. The group also has a lively discussion of the new Microsoft Novell partnership, along with other current issues.
Krugle bills itself as "the search engine for developers," and although Google is now a competitor, Krugle takes its own unique approach to searching source code, primarily open source. In this interview, Ken Krugler talks about the particular challenges of building a search engine for software developers.
The scope of designing software stretches beyond the artifacts to be materialized. Peter Merholz, Director of Practice Development at Adaptive Path, discusses the subtleties of a good design, the barriers thereto, and what skills an exemplary designer must have.
Do bloggers have an impact on customer support? How is Oracle impacting the current state of Novell and is Oracle going to buy RedHat? What is Microsoft's involvement in the SCO lawsuit? These are some of the questions discussed by Phil Windley, Matt Asay, Scott C Lemon, and their guest Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource. They also review such topics as alternative operating systems, the release of Firefox 2.0 and other current technology stories.
Making personal information available online, both to yourself and others, is a critical tool for businesses. Cosmo and Scooby, the code names for the Open Source Application Foundation's calendar server projects, are new open source information sharing applications. Listen to the OSAF's server projects development team as they introduce Cosmo and Scooby, the idea behind information management systems and how standards compliance affects development.
The purpose of a natural language, such as English or Japanese, is to describe facts, thoughts, and feelings. Mankind thinks in the language and the particular language determines the way we think. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language, asks whether programming languages influence human thought as well. He shows how program language usability is important and how Ruby fits into the mold.
The Apache Tomcat Web server, Roller blogging server and Derby database initiatives all share one thing: substantial contributions by Sun Microsystems. Apache is also incubating Harmony, an open source implementation of Java. In this episode, a trio of Sun open source leaders explains where and how Sun contributes to Apache projects, and why it is content for now to let Harmony proceed without Sun's direct contribution.
Stuart Halloway announces the launch of his company's new Streamlined framework for the rapid development of CRUD applications using Ruby on Rails. He introduces the feature set of the first release, discusses the possible direction of future enhancements, and proves the accuracy of the software's name by demonstrating the ease with which a flexible administration interface may be created using Streamlined.
How are large multinational corporations dealing with changes in the software industry? CIOs of several large organizations discuss how their IT departments are dealing with budgets and vendor relations in a constantly changing environment. Learn how companies like Wal-Mart, Shell, and Motorola are getting the best bang for their buck in this Software 2006 Keynote Chief Information Officers panel.
What's in store for the popular MySQL database application? At the 2006 MySQL Users Conference, leading MySQL developers discuss the latest release, ideas for the future and licensing issues the open source community faces. Listen to Kaj Arno, David Axmark and Michael Widenius as they talk about catching up on feature requests and working on even faster storage engines.
