Videos tagged with Collaboration


Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea

Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea

Posted in Conferences

Summary Paul Downey discusses the risks of premature standardisation, unnatural constraints, partial implementations and open extensions, how to avoid cloud computing lock-in, formal activities versus lightweight open processes as exemplified by open source, Microformats, OpenID, OAuth and other Web conventions being ratified through open, lightweight, continuous agreement. Bio Paul is a member...

Tags: Conferences, InfoQ, Architecture, WS Standards, QCon, JCP, WSDL, Collaboration, Standardization, BPEL, Communication, ...



Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops

Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops

Posted in Conferences, Cloud Computing, Development

Summary Jake Sorofman talks on how to glue together the application development world and the business operations one in an automated, virtualized and cloud computing environment where everything moves faster than ever. Bio Jake Sorofman is Vice President of Marketing at rPath. He held several other leadership positions in the past: SVP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, the...

Tags: Conferences, InfoQ, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Business/IT Alignment, Collaboration, Communication, Development, Gluecon


GluCon: Post-it Notes (mini-Keynotes)

GluCon: Post-it Notes (mini-Keynotes)

Posted in Web Technologies, Conferences, Development

Summary This presentation is a collection of five fifteen-minute mini-keynotes (called post-it notes) presented at the Glue conference in Denver, 2009. All presentations focused on aspects of "gluing together" web applications, with Fulkerson talking about WOA, and most of the others presenting various ideas about identity and sharing / assuring identity across sites and applications. Bio Aaron...

Tags: Web 2.0, Conferences, REST, InfoQ, Architecture, Collaboration, WOA, Development, Gluecon, Identity Management


Ian Robinson discusses REST, WS-* and Implementing an SOA

Ian Robinson discusses REST, WS-* and Implementing an SOA

Posted in Web Technologies, Project Management, Testing, Conferences

Summary In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Ian Robinson discusses REST vs. WS-*, REST contracts, WADL, how to approach company-wide SOA initiatives, how an SOA changes a company, SOA and Agile, tool support for REST, reuse and foreseeing client needs, versioning and the future of REST-based services in enterprise SOA development. Bio Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with Thou...

Tags: Technologies, Interview, REST, Web Services, BDD, InfoQ, SOA, WS Standards, Specifications, QCon, WSDL, ...


How (7 years of) Eclipse Changed my Views on Software Development

How (7 years of) Eclipse Changed my Views on Software Development

Posted in Conferences, Development

Summary Erich Gamma shares the lessons learnt being deeply involved in the development of the Eclipse platform over the years. From being a platform in closed development, Eclipse turned into an open source one supported by a large and growing community. Erich also talked about Jazz, IBM’s software development platform which incorporates the lessons learnt from Eclipse. Bio Erich Gamma is...

Tags: Conferences, Eclipse, IDE, Java, InfoQ, Releases, QCon, QCon London 2008, Collaboration, Jazz, Programming, ...



Jay Phillips on Adhearson and VoIP

Jay Phillips on Adhearson and VoIP

Posted in Networking, Development, Conferences

Summary In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Jay Phillips talks about VoIP, Asterisk and how his framework Adhearson makes it easy to write voice applications. Bio Jay Phillips is an innovator in the spaces where sophisticated VoIP development falls apart and where Ruby rocks. As the creator of Adhearsion and its parent company Codemecca, Jay brings new possibilities to these two technolog...

Tags: Networking, Ruby, Technologies, Interview, VoIP, InfoQ, Collaboration, Communication, RubyFringe, Domain Specific Languages


Activity States Framework: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Actual Human Collaboration on the Web

Activity States Framework: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Actual Human Collaboration on the Web

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Science, Web Technologies, Development

The development of "activity states framework" came from our research motivation to understand how people punctuate events and induce communication protocols (knowing to communicate through which Web tools, with whom, and when) during Web collaboration. With such understanding, it would enable the prediction of people's responses (e.g. the most likely tool(s) to use) within different ...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Conferences, Science, Computer Science, engEDU, Education, Collaboration, Google Tech Talks, Web, Development, ...


Human Aspects of Software Engineering: Social and Cognitive Perspectives

Human Aspects of Software Engineering: Social and Cognitive Perspectives

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Project Management, Development

The talk focuses on human aspects of software engineering and illustrates how agile software development helps coping with some challenges of software projects. The talk is based on the working assumption that the people involved in software development processes deserve more attention. In this spirit, the talk attempts to highlight the world of software engineering from the perspective of the ...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Practices, Conferences, Agile, engEDU, Education, Collaboration, Google Tech Talks, Development, Companies, ...


Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?

Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?

Posted in Conferences, Companies

In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month. Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game design process as well as how cooperative games can point t...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Business, Conferences, engEDU, Education, Collaboration, Google Tech Talks, Games, Companies


Scott Ambler On Agile’s Present and Future

Scott Ambler On Agile’s Present and Future

Posted in Project Management, Conferences

Summary In this interview, InfoQ’s Chief Editor, Floyd Marinescu, interviewed Scott Ambler, Practice Lead for Agile Development at IBM, on the current status of the Agile community and practices having a look at the perspective of the Agile’s future. Bio Scott Ambler is Practice Leader Agile Development within the IBM Methods group in Ontario, Canada. He has worked in the IT industr...

Tags: Practices, Interview, IBM, Agile, InfoQ, Modeling, Collaboration, Distributed Teams, Agile Techniques, Agile in the Enterprise, Large Projects, ...