Voice Recording Meets Open Source
Dr. Dobb's talks with Bruce Kaskey, cofounder of OrecX, about the Oreka open source project and why it's an important contribution to the open source community.

What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed)
Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.

Ubuntu and the Software Around It
Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.

Simply Rails 2
Dr. Dobb's talks with Patrick Lenz, author of the book Simply Rails 2 about the improvements in the latest release of the Ruby on Rails framework and the challenge of finding a European-based Rails hosting service.

Pre-Flight Builds: What They Are, Why You Should Care and How to Make Them a Reality
The build is back, and it's back in the hands of developers. That's the message of this webinar. There's a fundamental disconnect between a developer doing incremental builds on their small section of a build and the nightly build rebuilding everything. Agile techniques increase the frequency of 'nightly' builds making them happen many times per day, but developers still break the build by checking in bad code. The solution is the pre-flight build: a complete software build in the hands of every software developer and run before they ever commit code. In this webinar we'll discuss the benefits and impact of pre-flight builds, along with ways to make them a reality in your organization. Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 - 11 am PT / 2 pm ET

The Great Debate: PostgreSQL versus MySQL
Common industry perceptions of MySQL and PostgreSQL aren't as true with the current generation of releases as they used to be. DBAs, developers, and IT managers and decision-makers will benefit from this hour-long presentation about the pros and cons of using PostgreSQL or MySQL, which will include a discussion about the ongoing trend towards using open source in the enterprise. Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT

Creating Software Like a Band Plays Jazz: The Future of Software Delivery
The workforce of the future is changing, becoming increasingly organizationally and globally distributed, fluid and dynamic. And nowhere is this shift more visible than in the domain of software delivery, where business and technical expertise is increasingly distributed across town or around the world. Join us as two IBM luminaries, renowned software futurist Grady Booch and Eclipse luminary Erich Gamma, explore IBM's vision of the future and what IBM is doing to realize this vision with the Jazz project and Rational Team Concert. Event Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multithreaded Java Applications
Join Coverity on June 3 at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT for a web seminar "Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multi-threaded Applications." In this session Thomas Schultz of Coverity's Advanced Technology Group will offer a presentation and demonstration of Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java, a new dynamic analysis solution for multithreaded Java applications that automatically and predictably detects existing and potential race conditions and deadlocks that can cause deadly application behavior. Register today and find out how to:

• Automatically and rapidly detect serious concurrency errors
• Avoid data corruption and application failures
• Sharply reduce the problem of testing billions of unpredictable thread interleavings
• Reduce risk of migration to multicore systems
• Combine dynamic and static analysis to improve overall code quality