As a Certified Sr. Software IT Architect working at IBM, I spend much time with customers talking about new technologies and industry trends. I think that many of these presentations can be of much interest to the general public. That is why I have decided to reuse some of the material, stripped from any references to IBM products and making special efforts to make them vendor neutral.

Please let me know what you think about these presentations, what topics you would like to see discussed in the future, and if you would like to see these presentations in additional formats (ie. podcast, video podcast).

• Introduction to XML I (English, Spanish)
• Introduction to XML II (English, Spanish)
• Introduction to SOA I (English, Spanish)
• Introduction to XML III (English, Spanish)
• Introduction to SOA II (English, Spanish)
• AJAX (English, Spanish)
• Successful SOA Implementation (English, Spanish)
• SOA Presentation layer (English,Spanish)
• WWDC 2006 (English,Spanish)
• Green Data Centers (English,Spanish)
• Standards based Web apps (Spanish)

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Service Oriented Architecture is probably the hottest topic today in the IT World. Inthis section I will discuss what SOA is, what old problems it solves and which new ones are created.

XML is a relatively old technology that is at the cornerstone of many of the hot new technologies that everyone is talking about. Without XML there would be no SOA, AJAX or even xForms. Therefore, a thorough understanding of XML is required before any of these topics can be covered.