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Showing posts with label Interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interview. Show all posts

[Tech] Cloud Computing

As I think, I already mentioned here, I believe, that Cloud Computing (and Software as a Service, but this is a slightly different topic) are true game changers in our understanding of software infrastructure and development/deployment. Currently things are still quite rough around the edges, but I believe, that in like 3-5 years the default option of application deployment will be in one cloud

[Misc] Managing Commercial Software Projects

At IT-Conversations there is a recent interview with Jon Udell talking to Andy Singleton about "Managing Commercial Software Projects". This interview is highly recommended. Actually I figured that Singleton is following pretty much on the same track as I am. However he is making some bold statements; in projects he is using no phone-conferences ("the more phone conferences in a project the more

[Arch] Apache CXF and "Code First" Webservices

Dana Gardner has an interesting interview in his Briefings Direct podcast (transcript) talking about the Apache CXF project. Apache CXF is one of the leading "Open Source Service Framework", supporting a series of service protocols like SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA. Additionally CXF plays in the concert with Apache Camel, ServiceMix and ActiveMQ.I believe, that CXF is a great project

[Tech] Tim O'Reilly: From Web 2.0 to Robotics and Genomics?

Tim O'Reilly speaks in an interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin about the "second coming of the web", that they named Web 2.0 at time ("a stupid name") and he shares some thoughts about current "social networks" and "social graphs" like implemented in Facebook, and why he is not really happy with many of the current developments. He again stresses the importance of data over applications and

[Event] OLPC Presentation, Podcast

Last week Aaron Kaplan and Christoph Derndorfer from OLPC Austria presented the OLPC (one laptop per child project) at Vienna University of Technology. The presentation was vivid, also because several laptops were presented and the interaction was demonstrated (including a drop from approx one meter height).Presented topics included the idea of the project but also several details to technical

[Event] VLDB Interviews 2: E. Brewer, M. Stonebraker, M. Brodie

As already explained in the previous posting, we had the great opportunity to record interviews with the keynote speakers of VLDB 2007. In the second podcast episode we got three more interviews with Eric Brewer, Michael Stonebraker and Michael Brodie (from left to right):Eric Brewer talks about technologies that can help emerging countries in building up IT and communications infrastructure,

[Event] "Does Amazon do research?" Amazon CTO Vogels in Interview

Today I had the pleasure to record the interview with Werner Vogels, the CTO from Amazon.com, who held the keynote speach of the Very Large Databases Conference currently held in Vienna.The interviewer is Dr. Ross King from Vienna University and the interview is part of our "Woche der Informatik" podcast. This podcast is actually in German, however for the English speaking audience the VLDB
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