InfoQ Homepage Interviews
-
Brian Leroux on Cross Platform Mobile Application Development with PhoneGap
In this interview recorded at QCon New York 2012 Conference, Brian Leroux from Adobe team discussed cross platform mobile application development with PhoneGap technology.
-
Beyond Fearless Change: New Patterns and the Agile Mindset
In this interview Linda Rising describes what she has learned since writing Fearless Change and introduces 12 new patterns. Linda describes how she realized that some patterns are bigger, wider, and deeper than she originally imagined and offers the Piggyback pattern as an example. Linda also presents research into the fixed versus Agile mindset and renders her own conclusions.
-
Stanley Pollack on Moving Beyond Icebreakers
In his book “Moving Beyond Icebreakers” Stanley Pollack includes over 300 interactives. In this interview he talks about how to use them to achieve group goals, build teams, address difficult issues and engage communities. He discusses a number of them and how a structured approach to facilitation can result in better outcomes.
-
Aditya Bansod on Building Mobile Web Applications using HTML5
In this interview recorded at QCon NY 2012 Conference, Aditya Bansod from Sencha team talks about building mobile web applications using HTML5. He also discusses web as a technology platform, tools and cloud services that help developers take advantage of HTML5 technology.
-
Dave Logan on Core Values and Tribal Leadership
Dave Logan, in an interview at the Agile Culture Conference, talks about the importance of core values and how to identify then as well as the five stages of tribal leadership.
-
Ed Yourdon on the State of Agile and Trends in IT
At the Agile 2012 conference Ed Yourdon was interviewed and discussed the state of the industry, the uptake of agile methods and the level of awareness about these topics in senior management. He spoke about the similarities and differences between agile and previous process improvement initiatives, how agile requires cultural change and what is needed to enable that cultural change to happen.
-
Debasish Ghosh on Functional Programming, NoSQL
Debasish Ghosh talks about the advantages of functional programming and how its abstractions help to reason about code, Monads, DSLs, NoSQL and MongoDB, and much more.
-
Robert Winch on Spring Security and Multi-Tenant Applications on the Cloud
In this interview recorded at QCon NY 2012 Conference, Spring Security project lead Robert Winch discusses the new features of Spring Security 3.1 version and design strategies for multi-tenant cloud applications.
-
Jim Highsmith on Adaptive Leadership in Organizations
At the Agile 2012 Conference Jim spoke about the importance of focusing on quality as organizations move towards continuous delivery and how adaptive leadership helps organizations become agile. He discusses the dangers inherent in metrics and suggests some useful measurements that can be utilized in agile teams.
-
Mik Kersten: A Developer's View of ALM
Mik Kersten, the community team lead for the Eclipse Mylyn project and Eclipse Board Member, discusses the inspiration behind Mylyn, his surprise at its quick success in open source community, and its influence on other development tools. Taking place at Agile 2012, Mik also discusses the role of developers in Agile Lifecycle Management and recent changes in the DevOps movement.
-
Robert Greene on Versant's Java NoSQL Solution and JPA 2.0 Support
In this interview recorded at QCon New York 2012 Conference, Robert Greene from Versant Corporation discusses Versant's NoSQL database and their JPA 2.0 compliant Java NoSQL solution. He also talked about transparency of data access across the physical nodes when using NoSQL databases.
-
Peter Bell on the State of Java, Managing Software Development Teams, Startups
Peter Bell discusses the state of Java today and whether startups are using it or not, polyglot programming, startups in New York, how to keep up to date with technology, and much more.
