R-U Ready to Save the Day?

It's time to join the League of Extraordinary Software Developers at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel.

Yes, Rational User, look to the skies! The R-Signal is sweeping across the clouds with the challenge: R-U Ready to Save the Day?



We've also introduced the key 'Heroes' on Myspace.
You can type in the URLs below and engage with them via the emails provided below:

• Developer: myspace.com/rsdc2008_developer
  
• (email: rhero.phanindra@gmail.com )
• Architect: myspace.com/rsdc2008_architect
  
• (email: rhero.robert@gmail.com )
• Analyst: myspace.com/rsdc2008_analyst
  
• (email: rhero.iris@gmail.com )
• Tester: myspace.com/rsdc2008_tester
  
• (email: rhero.camille@gmail.com )
• Release Mgr: myspace.com/rsdc2008_releasemanager
  
• (email: rhero.gary@gmail.com )
• Project Mgr: myspace.com/rsdc2008_projectmanager
  
• (email: rhero.tim@gmail.com )

Visit us at SD West next week!

SD West 2008 is next week, in Santa Clara CA. IBM is a platinum sponsor of the event, and Scott Ambler, Practice Leader of Rational's Agile Development business will be speaking at the conference on Agile Model Driven Development.

He also has another interesting talk scheduled - here's the abstract:

Sci-Fi 2008
Speaker: Scott Ambler (Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM)
Date/Time: Monday (March 3, 2008) 7:00pm — 8:30pm

Presentation Abstract
The 2007-2008 television and movie season has provided us with a bonanza of science fiction: Jericho, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, Torchwood, Dr. Who, Stargate Atlantis, Iron Man, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek XI … Let's get together and share our opinions about what is actually worth watching. If you like we can even discuss why none of the other captains hold a candle to James T. Kirk.

In my opinion - worth watching: Torchwood and Doctor Who. If you don't get BBC America - sign up for it now!

More importantly, Ken will also be at the show, bravely staffing the booth. I'm sure he'll be blogging the event too!

XML 2007 pictures

Well, XML 2007 is over for another year, and it was a very successful conference. You can find links to comments, reviews and photos here, including a set on Flickr. Happily, to prove I was there, the set includes one of me.

Just to add to the excitement, I also took a couple of pictures of the IBM booth at the show:

XML 2007

I'm on the road again in a couple of weeks - this time at the XML 2007 conference in Boston on December 3rd through 5th at the Marriott Copley Place:

I'll be showing Rational Application Developer's XML tools - for those who are not aware of this, we have some powerful XML tools in our Architecture Management tools, including:

• DTD editor
• XML editor
• XML Schema editor
• XSL editor
• XPath Expression wizard
• XML to XML Mapping editor
• XSL debugging and transformation
• Generating Java beans from an XML schema
• Generating HTML documentation from an XML schema file
• Generating XML schema file from XML, DTD, and relational tables

and, in Rational Software Architect:

• UML to XSD transformations

While I'm on the subject of RAD, the Rational Application Developer Programming Guide has been updated for version 7. It's available as a free PDF download from here.

In it, there's a whole chapter (Chapter 12) on the XML development environment. Check it out, and don't forget to visit me at the XML 2007 conference exhibition.

Submit your papers for RSDC now!

Call for papers for RSDC 2008 in Orlando is now open!

We're looking for good, technical presentations on architecture and construction. Topics such as SOA, modeling or case studies using RAD or RSA are welcome. So be an R-Hero and join us in sunny Florida next summer!

Rational and Data-driven Applications

Well, I'm back from Vegas (and fortunately, with most of the family fortune intact) with IOD 2007 just a distant memory.

While at the show however, I got my eyes opened to the sheer amount of data, information and content floating around the world. Managing, understanding and delivering that content to users is what IOD was all about, and Rational plays a part in the process too - by building the applications that deliver the content. So, with that in mind, I've put together some articles that explain how to leverage data in your applications using Rational Architecture Management tools. Here are some links:

• Generate Web Services for DB2 9 pureXML
• Visual Data Modeling in Rational Application Developer
• Create web services for DB2 stored procedures
• Enabling a service-oriented architecture with SDO and the JDBC Data Access Service

Pictures from the show....

Well, it was a busy first session at SD Best Practices yesterday - lots of people stopped by the booth to chat about Architecture and Construction tools. I snapped a couple of (really low quality) pictures with my phone. First, you can't miss the IBM booth!


We have one tiny little corner of the IBM mega-booth. I'm hiding behind a huge post, so you'll really have to work to find me (ha! - qualified leads!!):


And finally, a general shot of the booth, with Mr. Brian Bryson excitedly talking about testing with a conference-goer.

Don't forget that there's still time to make it out to the booth today - so if you haven't yet - what are you waiting for?

Meet Steve in Boston!

Steve,

have a safe trip to Boston. I would say catch a game of the #1 Boston Red Sox's at Fenway Park, but I believe they are away this week. Next best thing is meet a few customers and take them out for a pint or two. :-) Look for Steve if you are in Boston this week.

Safe travels!

See you at SD Best Practices

I'm heading out today to go staff the Architecture Management booth at SD Best Practices 2007 in Boston, running from today through Friday.

If you're going to the show, or are looking for something to do this week, stop by the IBM booth and say hello. We're giving away some cool stuff (I can't tell you what it is yet, but it will be worth it!!) and I'll be demoing RSA, RAD and RAM. What could be better than that?