At Jazz.net, we put a lot of emphasis on building the Jazz community through events. In the past, we’ve notified you of upcoming events through a lengthy static list. In light of changes towards making the Jazz community more events focused, we’ve decided to redesign the events page to make events more discoverable, engaging, and […]

The Heartbleed bug is a worldwide security vulnerability affecting services with SSL/TLS encryption using the OpenSSL library. We have reviewed all the systems hosting jazz.net and JazzHub and would like to update you on the following actions that have been taken: All affected jazz.net and JazzHub systems have been patched. All affected IBM-owned SSL Certificates […]

While the move to the new forum software last year brought new and more modern capabilities, we also lost some (like news reader compatibility). While you can get RSS feeds from the forum, unless you use the advanced searching capabilities, the feeds can seem more like fire hoses than drinking fountains, splattering you with more […]

In October, I had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.  The conference brings together women from all areas of computing for a time of networking, mentoring, professional development, and technical learning and discussions.  With over 3600 attendees, women from all backgrounds, from students to professors […]

Ok…admit it…we’ve all done it.  While soaping up your hair in the shower, you break into an off-key rendition of that ballad you loved in high school….the one that told your boyfriend or girlfriend just how you felt about him or her.  Maybe later you added it to your mix tape. But little did you […]

You may have noticed that Jazz.net has had a little bit of a makeover, which we’re pretty excited about. Here are some highlights: All new Forum with a Q&A model, voting on answers, flexible tagging, badges, and user reputation. Check it out and build up your reputation as a Jazz expert by answering others’ questions. […]

We know it can be frustrating to discover if an integration exists for the products you use. You’re probably tired of managing an endless list of bookmarks that you’ve collected to look up those integrations! The Jazz.net and Rational Integrations Gearbox teams have joined up to improve how information about Integrations is made available. Over […]

Today, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced it has awarded the ACM Software System Award for 2011 to the IBM technical leaders responsible for Eclipse: John Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Greg Adams, Philippe Mulet, Julian Jones, John Duimovich, Kevin Haaland, Erich Gamma (now with Microsoft) and Steve Northover (now with Oracle).  JohnW, Dave, Philippe, Julian, Kevin, […]

We have such a great line up of sessions for you this year.  Please check out our new promo page where you will get to meet our wonderful Jazz Development Team, see what they will be presenting to you, and get to know who’s who and what they do on our team.  A record number […]

I have a hand in various parts of the jazz.net community site, but we’re coming up on one of my annual favorites: talking about and promoting the IBM Rational Software Conference – Innovate 2012! Why you should go to Innovate 2012 The view that most people out there may have of developers, and IT geeks […]