Play with ClearQuest and ClearCase without installing them

I've been playing with IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase without doing any configuration. Cool. I'm hoping that we'll do the same for more IBM Rational products.

You can access a dW server with a tutorial environment setup using a Citrix client. Go to Trial: Rational ClearCase V7.0 (I just reported it, but, in case that you take the first tutorial, you'll see that the screenshots of the first part don't match the actual product: you'll have to "connect" instead of "login", and you better know that pat's password is pat and that she has the lead project role).

Quick and Easily Done Mashups + SOA and web 2.0

QEDWiki, a mashup maker by IBM, has got a nice intro and demo on video. If you liked it, better keep an eye on the Emerging Technologies You Need to Know !

Mahups and Mashup makers are an obvious way to show the value of service orientation. As the video states, Web 2.0 puts a face on SOA.

(via Ferran Rodenas' SDLC blog)

dW chats: Grady Booch on the latest Rational tools release

Another developerWorks chat that looks very interesting: Grady Booch answers your questions about this week's Rational tools release. On Thursday December 7th, at 4:30 pm his time or 10:30 pm my time.

I did not learn about this from Booch's blog itself, but from a comment by Ferran Rodenas to a post in Kelly Drahzal's blog. The interesting bit about this is that Ferran works for "la Caixa", a very important ibm client, and it is a very good thing for me and some team mates to be able to read his posts and keep track of his blogroll. Or explore his linkedin profile and our common connections. The openess that blogs and social software have brought rocks!

dW chats: Making the move to Ajax

IBM Rational's Bill Higgins will be the moderator of a developerWorks chat on Ajax. to be held on Wednesday December 6th at 1pm his time or 7pm my time. I was not aware of these dW chats going on (this is the second one, as far as I've seen).