Last week, I talked with Lauren Sell and Josh Dilworth of Porter Novelli Austin about doing PR for tech startups. My primary interest was figuring out what the day-to-day life of a tech PR person is, and to figure out and lessons learned. In this first part, we ...

From iPhoneDevCamp, this presentation by Christopher Allen (slides available). Christopher covers the various aspects of using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, different media formats, and then the human interaction methods to keep in mind when developing for the iPhone. Also, check out the community site iPhoneWebDev.

Cote talks with Zane Rockenbaugh of Liquid Labs about selling software in the banking market. As Zane comments, the banks are quite conservative in their technology purchasing as their business model assures steady income and, thus, they avoid change. The need for change comes, however, largely from external ...

Coté talks with Zane Rockenbaugh of Liquid Labs about the company’s business model for working with clients — namely, sharing the IP of the resulting the code. Additionally, Coté and Zane talk about growing a small software shop from one person to a team, and the challanges in ...

Coté speaks with Divakar Jandhyala of eVapt about what IT management for Software as a Service (SaaS) looks like and needs. Conversation also turns to the effects of SaaS on the IT department, and what the IT department of the future may look like. Finally, they end up ...

Coté talks with whurley, John Willis, and Mark Hinkle about the recently announced barcampESM. Barcamps are awesome ways to get together and “conference” with people, so it’s exciting that the IT management community will finally have the chance to participate in this way. The three ...

Coté talks again with William “whurley” Hurley about his thoughts on commercial open source. They discuss permissive licensing, choosing a license based on the desires for software and marketing thereof, avoiding using software licenses for political agendas (e.g., patents), and open source as a fad.

Michael Cote talks with Chip Holden about applying and using Agile Software Development in large scale projects. Chip tells us about his experience applying it over the years and across three different teams. His comments at the beginning about Agile software accentuating Conway’s Law are an interesting, ...

Michael Cote talks with Willian “whurley” Hurley about the recently kicked off open sources programs at BMC Software. They discuss the selection of the BSD license, the role open source plays in IT management, and the ways whurley has gone about starting up the BMC open source ...

In these highlgiht’s from the blogger’s corner at SAP Sapphire Vienna ‘07, James Governor first talks with SAP’s Nils Herzberg about “seeker/solvers” in communities and discuss other Enterprise 2.0-ish concerns. See Jame’s reports from Walldorf last year for more. James then get a unique “demo” from Social ...

James Governor talks with Sun’s Richard Barrington about green computing. They lay the ground work for what green computing is, discuss WEEE, the division between “the Yanks” and “the Euros” when it comes to developing green computing, go over Sun’s activities in green computing, and them end ...

While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with Ali and Roger about IBM’s efforts to dissiminate SOA best practices and knowledge, or, “excellence.” In the course of the discusion, they go over how IBM provides training and assistance world-wide, if snow-balls or fractals are ...

While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor speaks with IBM’s Robert LeBlanc about IBM’s SOA consultancy services. They talk about competing against other outsourcers, avoiding being just a body shop, and the value of co-creation with clients.

While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with IBM’s Sandy Carter about IBM’s SOA education efforts. They talk about using Second Life, the Business Process Simulator game, and the IBM SOA Business Catalog.

Coté and James talk with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. They talk about SIGARHyperic’s, open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- vs. multi-source open source development and what it means to be an open source company, comparisons to Wily as ...

Coté talks with Ed Merks about the Eclipse Modeling Framework project, or EMF. Ed gives us a quick overview of the framework and new features and then walks us through designing a model in EMF, generating code, and then round-tripping back and forth. Watching the demo you ...

Coté talks with Paul Terry Walhus about running IT for Austin’s Hotel San Jose and Jo’s coffee house. We go over the setup between different locations and then check out the data center.

Cote talks with John Graham about the newest version of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform, or DTP, in Eclipse Europa. John shows us how to use DTP as database navigator, goes over the platform offerings for establishing connections and extracting models for various data sources, and then ...

Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s ...

Coté talks with Mik Kersten of the Eclipse Mylyn team about the most recent version of Mylyn (formally Mylar) in Eclipse Europa. In a brief video segment, Mik gives us a quick overview of Mylyn’s goals as a task and “task context” plugin to Eclipse. Mylyn integrates ...

In this interview from SAP SAPPHIRE 2007, talks with Colgate-Palmolive developers Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney about their Imagineering Fellowship with SAP. After showing their development skills with projects like SAPLink and layering Ruby on Rails on-top of SAP’s platform, Ed and Dan were selected ...

Cote talks with Virgil Dodson, Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate about the new features in Eclipse BIRT. BIRT is an Eclipse project that allows you to connect to various data sources, build reports with those sources, and the UIs needed for your end-users to view those reports.

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In this screencast, Coté talks with Eclipse Equinox project lead Jeff McAffer about the new version of the Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework in Eclipse Europa. We see a demo of the the new server-side capabilities in Equinox and the development model used. The notion of “modules” and ...

In this collection of highlights from the OSBC 2007 panel with the same name, Coté talks with Akash Garg (CTO, hi5 Networks, Dave Rosenberg (CEO and co-founder, MuleSource, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder (Chairman & CEO, about open source and Service Oriented Architectures. They ...

In this episode, Coté talks with Oren Teich about the newly announced Sun Connection Inventory Channel, a free, hosted way to catelog IT assets. We then get a demo of using the Inventory Channel.