IBM Developer Works Days 2012.

IBM Developer Works Days 2012.
14 -15 Nov 2012

General Trends in Development

• The term “GUI” is promoted to “User Experience” !
• IDE’s and Technologies are trying to prove all the time that they are Agile oriented.
• Applications Should be seen as a Service not a product.
• Domain Specific Languages (DSL) are languages meant for non-developer application users to be able to perform activities on the system without developer involvement. I see it as one step forward from API’s but for users not developers. (just like how SQL was meant to be for databases).
• Mixed Environments , more that one technology (or programming language) in one application to provide a service.
• Mobile development is gaining ground and attention for accessing mobile B2C and B2B.
• Office-Automation using mobile applications for the corporate employees.
• BIG Data.
• There is still a lot of work for developers to do.

IBM Products

• IBM is sill committed to the IBM i platform with RPG and other legacy technologies.
• The Process of Agile , Development, Testing and Support is Being integrated into some sort of social-media web platform (sort of Face-Book of the working environment).
• IBM is releasing a mobile application development tool with cross platform support .
• IBM released a new protocol http://MQTT.ORG for communication of sensor data for low-power low-bandwidth devices.

BIG Data

• TeraAnalytics presentation about a project in a bank for analyzing access-logs using mathematical statistical methods to detect suspicious activities on the Databases in the Bank (Outlies).
  • Hadoop stack
  • R Project
  • Splunk
  • Cassandra
  • NOSQL