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Developers have a chance to significantly expand the appeal and reach of their applications by voice-enabling their applications, but is that going to be enough? Mark Ericson, vice president of product strategy for BlueNote Networks argues that in order to take advantage of new voice technologies you have to have a plan for integrating that capability directly into the applications that drive your existing business processes.
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Software development is an inherently creative process. Many developers compare it to art, and - like artists - take great pride in their work. However, the artistic process typically is not an efficient one. Given that software development is a business, many software development managers and team leads have wondered how to make it more productive and predictable, without restricting the freedom of thought involved in making good software.
Sergei Sokolov, C/C++ Solution Manager at Parasoft, explains how infrastructure elements allow development teams to increase productivity without restricting creativity. Learn how several industry-standard practices reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft. When the more mundane aspects of development are automated, developers can focus on the creative tasks they enjoy most, and still deliver better software in less time.
time: 0:27:11 - size: 12.4 MB
In this premium edition of the ACM Queuecast, host Mike Vizard talks to Jeff Johnstone, senior director of sales for TechExcel, about why there is a need for a new approach to application lifecycle management that better reflects the business requirements and challenges facing development teams.
time: 0:39:36 - size: 13.5 MB
Considering the open source approach: Queue listens in on a rare meeting between a popular sci-fi author and a Sun VP.
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time: 0:20:41 - size: 9.5 MB
The deployment of applications, updates, and patches is one of the most common - and risky - functions of any IT department. Deploying any application that isn't properly configured for distribution can disrupt or crash critical applications and cost companies dearly in lost productivity and help-desk expenses - and companies do it every day. In fact, Gartner reports that even after 10 years of experience, most companies cannot automatically deploy software with a success rate of 90 percent or better. In this ACM Premium Queuecast with host Mike Vizard, installation expert Tom Spalthoff from Macrovision discusses how companies can achieve a reliable desktop environment while reducing the time and cost spent preparing high-quality application packages that deploy successfully.
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time: 0:22:42 - size: 5.2 MB
 Software production (the back-end of software development, including tasks such as build, test, package and deploy) has become a bottleneck in many development organizations. In this interview Electric Cloud founder John Ousterhout explains how you can turn software production from a liability to a competitive advantage.
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time: 0:18:48 - size: 8.6 MB
 Intellectual Property (IP) - which ranges from ideas, inventions, technologies, and patented, trademarked or copyrighted work and products - can account for as much as 80% of a software company's total market value.
Since IP is considered a financial asset in today's business climate, the threats to IP create a real concern.
In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Michael Vizard, Aladdin vice president Gregg Gronowski explains how Software Digital Rights Management solutions are the de-facto standard today for protecting software IP, preventing software piracy, and enabling software licensing and compliance.
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time: 0:21:36 - size: 5.2 MB
Reader response to our interview with computer architecture pioneers John Hennessy and David Patterson was overwhelming, so we decided to make the entire interview available as a Queuecast. In part two of this two-part series, Hennessy and Patterson continue their discussion about today's Holy Grail of computing-how to easily and efficiently program highly scalable processors-and what roles universities, industry, and the open source community can play in reaching it.
time: 0:18:07 - size: 8.29 MB
The CTO of Finjan, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, makes a strong case for a new approach to security that relies more on analyzing the behavior of suspicious code than signatures that have to developed after the attacks have already started.
time: 0:28:26 - size: 6.5 MB
Reader response to our interview with computer architecture pioneers John Hennessy and David Patterson was overwhelming, so we decided to make the entire interview available as a Queuecast. In part one of this two-part series, they discuss the impact of their famous textbook Computer Architecture: A Quantititave Approach, the promise of FPGAs, and the challenge of parallel programming.
time: 0:21:17 - size: 9.7 MB
Today's software producer faces many challenges in building and keeping a satisfied customer base. In this ACM Premium Queuecast, Macrovision FLEXnet Publisher Product Manager Mitesh Pancholy discusses how companies can solve their license management challenges and turn their software operations into a profit center.
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time: 0:20:59 - size: 9.6 MB
In this edition of the ACM Queuecast hosted by Mike Vizard, Oracle's chief architect for tools and middleware Ted Farrell talks about the role of IDEs in the Eclipse open source era, and why developers still need IDE tools to better leverage a wide variety of middleware assets and take a more modular approach to building complex business applications.
time: 0:24:35 - size: 11.2 MB
A piecemeal approach to building data centers that relies on commodity servers, switches and systems management software only leads to inefficient systems that add unnessary cost and managment overhead to IT operations. In an interview with Queuecast host Mike Vizard, Liquid Computing CTO and co-founder Mike Kemp offers a fresh approach to enterprise computing.
time: 0:21:38 - size: 9.9 MB
Unravel the mysteries and learn the best practices associated with mastering the new application installation routines for Vista applications. In this Premium Queuecast hosted by Michael Vizard, Bob
Corrigan, senior manager for global product marketing at
Macrovision, and Robert Dickau, principal trainer, reveal the five most crucial things you need to know about Vista application installations.
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time: 0:20:17 - size: 9.3 MB
All too often the reporting tools that developers select for their applications are a little more than an afterthought. In this Premium ACM Queuecast, Vice President of Product Management for Actuate, Paul Clenahan, explains why it's in the interest of developer to select richer sets of reporting tools and how these tools more readily accessible though the Eclipse Foundation's BIRT project, spearheaded by Actuate.
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time: 0:15:08 - size: 6.9 MB
Although the industry is generally getting better with dealing with routine types of security attacks, developers are today being challenged by more complex attacks that not only flow below the radar, but also specifically target certain types of applications. In this Queuecast edition, Ryan Sherstobitoff, CTO of Panda Software describes what new types of sophisticated attacks are being created and what proactive steps developers need to take to protect their applications.
time: 0:17:25 - size: 15.9 MB
Companies building applications in an SOA environment must take care to ensure seamless interaction and make certain that any changes to their applications won't negatively impact other applications. In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Mike Vizard, John Michelsen, CTO of iTKO, a Dallas based provider of testing tools for SOA applications, discusses the need for companies to recognize this delicate balance.
time: 0:20:55 - size: 19.1 MB
Although complying with myriad regulations affecting information technology these days can feel like a chore, technology professionals now have an opportunity to leverage these efforts and create a proactive approach to IT governance. Tune into this month's Queuecast as Kris Lovejoy, CTO of Consul, discusses with host Mike Vizard why companies must shift their focus on compliance to a new governance approach that will ultimately better serve a company's needs.
Sponsored by IBM
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As vice president of server technologies for Oracle, Amlan Debnath is one of the few people who can synthesize Oracle's software infrastructure plans. In an interview with ACM Queucast host Mike Vizard, Debanth provides some insights to how Oracle's strategy is evolving to simultaneously embrace service-oriented architectures alongside the demands of new and emerging events-driven architectures.
time: 0:15:45 - size: 14.4 MB
Although Google remains relatively mum about its ambitions in the area of speech recognition, Mike Cohen, head of the company's efforts in this area and a co-founder of Nuance Communications, says that speech recognition will increasingly play a bigger role in all Web-based applications going forward. But for developers to be successful in this space, they will need to get in touch with their inner persons more than ever if they hope to create applications that ordinary people will actually use.
time: 0:18:38 - size: 8.5 MB
The ultimate alternative human computer interface is speech. Mastering the development skills to integrate speech into applications, however, has never been simple. But as time goes on, significant strides are being made, particularly in applications that leverage embedded processors. In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Mike Vizard, Roberto Sicconi, manager for mobile conversational computing at IBM, explains how and why speech technologies will become a standard element of most mainstream applications.
time: 0:24:49 - size: 11.3 MB
As developers move to build applications that span service-oriented architectures, many of them underestimate the testing challenges associated with building and maintaining applications that can comprise hundreds of different Web services. Developers need a robust set of testing tools and a systematic approach to testing to prevent errors from being introduced or, worse yet, propagated throughout the system. Wayne Ariola, vice president of corporate development for Parasoft, in a conversation with Queuecast host Mike Vizard, highlights some of the more common miscues associated with SOA and discusses best practices for building SOA applications.
time: 0:17:08 - size: 15.6 MB
Building software components and then integrating them with applications built by others has always been one of the most difficult challenges for any development team. In today's Web environment, developers are now being asked to build components that can be dynamically plugged into any application anywhere on the Web. In a conversation with Queuecast host Mike Vizard, David Johnson, CTO of IPCommerce, a company that specializes in distributed payment systems, explains how his company is rising to that very challenge.
time: 0:20:57 - size: 19.1 MB
As the Eclipse Foundation gears up to ship its most comprehensive set of open source application development tools to date, Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, explains why a best-of-breed approach based on an integrated set of open source tools ultimately will provide a better experience for developers.
time: 0:23:52 - size: 10.9 MB
Today general-purpose processors from Intel and AMD dominate the
landscape, but advances in processor designs such as the cell processor
architecture overseen by IBM chief scientist Peter Hofstee promise to
bring the costs of specialized system on a chip platforms in line with
cost associated with general purpose computing platforms, and that just
may change the art of system design forever.
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time: 0:19:23 - size: 17.7 MB
A new paradigm created to empower business system analysts by giving them access to meta-data that they can directly control to drive business process management is about to sweep the enterprise application arena. In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Michael Vizard, Oracle vice president of product development Edwin Khodabakchian explains how the standardization of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and the evolution of the business process execution language (BPEL) are coming together to finally create flexible software architectures that can adapt to the business rather than making the business adapt to the software.
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time: 0:24:27 - size: 22.3 MB
Time again companies moving to build large scale systems and networks stumble over the same problems. In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Michael Vizard, Jarod Jenson, the brains behind the Enron Online trading site, talks about the best practices he emphasizes now that he is the chief architect for Aeysis, a consulting firm that specializes on advising clients on how to build manageable high performance systems.
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time: 0:21:30 - size: 19.6 MB
Probably the single biggest challenge with large scale systems and networks is not building them but rather managing them on an ongoing basis. Fortunately, new classes of systems and network management tools that have the potential to save on labor costs because they automate much of the management process are starting to appear. In an interview with Mike Vizard, Rob Gingell, formerly chief engineer at Sun Microsystems and now the CTO of Cassatt, explains how these new IT automation tools are being created and what impact they are likely to have on day-to-day IT operations.
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time: 0:22:40 - size: 20.7 MB
When it comes to managing and deploying large scale systems and networks,
discipline and focus matter more than specific technologies. In a conversation with ACM Queuecast host Mike Vizard, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says the key to success is to have a relentless commitment to a modular computer architecture that makes it possible for the people who build the applications to also be responsible for running and deploying those systems within a common IT framework.
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