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developerWorks Interviews: Rawn Shah

editor — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:14:20 +0000

IBM developerWorks Community Programs manager, Rawn Shah, talks about a pioneering university course on Web 2.0 and online communities and a ground-breaking course he helped to launch and is co-teaching at the University of Arizona.

As Community Programs manager, Shah focuses on how to develop greater interaction between our members through the many community services we have, such as blogs, forums, user groups, wikis, and other services. He’s been a network administrator, a systems programmer, a Web project manager, an author, a technology writer, and an editor. He survived the dot-com days in his own startup before becoming a full-time writer and later joining IBM as an editor. In his spare time, he is also a student and teacher of Japanese sword fighting.

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Tags: IBM, developerWorks, Rawn Shah, Web 2.0

developerWorks Interviews: Jon “maddog” Hall - 2 of 2

editor — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:01:39 +0000

Jon Hall, president of Linux International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. In this two-part interview, he speaks at length on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education.

Over a 30-plus-year career, Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author, consultant to local, state and national governments worldwide and college educator. He is currently an industry consultant. While at Digital, he became interested in Linux and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital’s Alpha platform. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several nonprofit organizations. At the U.K. Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, he was honored with a Lifetime Recognition Award for his services to the open source community. Excerpted from Wikipedia entry

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Tags: Jon Hall, Linux, Linus Torvalds, Open Source

developerWorks Interviews: Jon “maddog” Hall - 1 of 2

editor — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:50:53 +0000

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Tags: Jon Hall, Linux, Linus Torvalds, Open Source

developerWorks Interviews: Bob Sutor, Part 1

editor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:47:33 +0000

Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM’s own strategic vision.

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Tags: Bob Sutor, open source, IBM

developerWorks Interviews: Bob Sutor, Part 2

editor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:45:50 +0000

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Tags: Bob Sutor, IBM

This week on developerWorks: Oct 25, 2006

editor — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:29:41 +0000

Mike Perrow, The Rational Edge editor, is back for a visit to talk about content in the just-released October issue.

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developerWorks Interviews: David Boloker

editor — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:49:05 +0000

In this interview, David Boloker explains Ajax as the culmination of unfolding technologies since the late 1990s and puts Ajax in the Web 2.0 perspective. He also talks about the role of the Open Ajax Alliance in promoting the adoption of Ajax and interoperability across the toolkits.

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Tags: David Boloker, Ajax, Web 2.0, Open Ajax

developerWorks Interviews: Laurance Doyle

editor — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:40:31 +0000

Dr. Laurance Doyle talks about his innovative work at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) and how the evolving communications ecosystem that we call the Web is helping SETI tap into more computing power, as well as harness the curiosity of people everywhere.

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Tags: Laurance Doyle, SETI

This week on developerWorks: Oct 18, 2006

editor — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:00:54 +0000

James Snell, a developer with IBM’s WebAhead development lab, comes on to talk about his new developerWorks article series on the Atom publishing protocol.

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Tags: James Snell, IBM, WebAhead, developerWorks, Atom

This week on developerWorks: Oct 11, 2006

editor — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:00:56 +0000

developerWorks’ SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA.

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Tags: developerWorks, SOA, Pat Flanders, Michael O’Connell

This week on developerWorks: Oct 04, 2006

editor — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:34:30 +0000

developerWorks Web content editor Denise Ruterbories talks about two new developerWorks features: the Ajax resource center and the redesigned Web development zone.

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