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Communicating at Oredev Another of the vignette shows from Oredev, Carl and Richard explore topics of communication. Up first is Udi Dahan, discussing his approach to domain driven design, focusing on communicating deeply with the stakeholders and domain experts to thoroughly explore the domain - even around something on the surface that seem simple like the concept of a customer. Next, Jim Benson digs into Kanban, including the idea of personal Kanban, which like the development and manufacturing methodology, foc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR Carl and Richard talk to Damian Edwards and David Fowler about SignalR. SignalR is a library for providing persistant connections between a web server and a browser by providing an abstraction over top of technologies like WebSockets or even AJAX polling. SignalR requires .NET 4.0 on the back end and jQuery on the front end... although non-browser clients are in the future! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Development Practices at Oredev Another set of stories from Oredev, this time around development practices. The first interview is with Dan North, where he discusses how development teams can move beyond just being able to ship software into something he calls hyper-productivity. He talks about teams that ship software twenty times a day! Next up, Jean Tabaka talks about how RallyDev uses agile practices to make the entire company agile. At RallyDev every person is involved in planning out the vision of the company quarte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathleen Dollard and Son talk Algorithms Recorded live from the GrapeCity booth at DevConnections, Kathleen Dollard (and her son Ben) talk about his PhD work in algorithms, how they are being utilized by her company, software composition (see show 708 with Juval Lowy), and ruminations on the future of software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool Projects at Oredev Next up from Oredev - the cool projects! Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Tess Ferrandez from Microsoft. Tess has moved on from the mad debugging skills she blogged about to focus on Kinect and Windows Phone 7. The conversation digs into using Kinect beyond XBox games. Next up, Luca Minudel discusses his experiences building software for Formula One racing, perhaps the ultimate gadget ever! Finally, the show closes with Henrik Andersson of Tobii talking about prototype eye tracking ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Neil Roodyn on Vision-Based Systems Recorded live from the GrapeCity booth at DevConnections in Las Vegas. Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Neil about his work with Kinect, Surface 2, tablets, smart phones, and how they can all work together in a meeting space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard were part of a panel discussion on the cloud entitled 'Are We There Yet?' with Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Brian Price and Scott Seely. The conversation dug into migrating existing application to the cloud, greenfield development, security, reliability and scalability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Visualization at Oredev The next collection of tales from Oredev focuses on data visualization. The first conversation is with Alastair Allan, talking about his experiences in visualizing the GPS tracking data stored by every iPhone 4. While it was generally known that the iPhone kept a record of every GPS location and WiFi connection, it was not until Alasdair's visualization application let anyone (especially reporters) see on a map exactly what was in their own phone that the story became a sensation. Next, a c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WinRT Panel Discussion at DevConnections Where is Windows 8 taking us? While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard participated in a panel discussion with Tim Huckaby, Billy Hollis, Dr. Neil Roodyn and Paul Sheriff about the new Windows Runtime. Also listen for a brief appearance of the one-and-only Mark Minasi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web Development at Oredev The first of the vignette shows from Oredev, this show focuses on web development. The first conversation is with Peter Moskovits, talking about using HTML 5 WebSockets to build real bi-directional communicating applications in the browser. The second part of the show the boys talk to Troels Thomsen about building web applications in the cloud using AppHarbor. AppHarbor focuses on making it simple to take existing ASP.NET applications into the cloud. Finally, the last conversation is with R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro Carl and Richard talk to Dan Hanan and Danny Warren about mixing Kinect together with WinRT. Back at the Build conference keynote a 'marketecture' diagram showed how existing applications still work in Windows 8 but also introduced a new platform using WinRT. At the time attendees were told that the blue side (existing applications) and the green side (WinRT) will never cross. Then the folks at Interknowlogy got to work. Dan and Danny talk about how they built an application utilizing Kinec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil McIsaac Develops SharePoint in the Cloud Carl and Richard talk to Neil McIsaac about building SharePoint sites in the cloud. The conversation starts out talking about the state of SharePoint development - that the combination of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 really works! Neil also talks about Silverlight's role in SharePoint as well as LightSwitch. Finally, Neil digs into the challenges around SharePoint in the cloud. After spending some time talking about SharePoint hosting options, Neil digs into SharePoint Online, whi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Allen Builds Web Pages With Modernizr Carl and Richard talk to Scott Allen about Modernizr, an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites by reporting browser features. Scott talks about how Modernizr focuses on actually testing for the availability of features on a browser, rather than just relying on the browser useragent and a browser capabilities file. Along the way there is plenty of IE6 bashing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tomasz Janczuk Builds Web Apps with node.js Carl and Richard talk to Tomasz Janczuk about node.js. Node.js is all about building scalable network programs, typically using HTTP. Tomasz talks about how node.js can run as a standalone application that can completely replace a web server, as well as run within IIS as iisnode. iisnode is an implemenation of node.js as a native IIS module. Node.js has been around since 2009, and the community surrounding it is massive - it's only new to the .NET world. Ready to do something totally differ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Software Business at DevReach A great discussion with three successful software entrepeneurs with stories and advice about venturing out on your own in the wild and potentially lucrative world of software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications Carl and Richard talk to Alexander Groß about Machine.Specification (MSpec). MSpec was initially developed by Aaron Jensen as a context/specification framework to help construct tests in a more behaviour driven development style. MSpec provides a language for describing the context and requirements of a test that business owners can read. Trying to get your head around test-first? Check out MSpec! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juval Lowy is a Business Architect Carl and Richard talk to Juval Lowy about his latest thoughts on software development. As always, Juval has a controversial angle on things. After outlining the problems of current software development approaches, Juval goes on to define a new role in the software development practice, the business architect. While the term is overloaded, the core idea is the ability to model business practices in technology quickly. Is Juval predicted the death of the developer? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 Carl and Richard talk to Paul Lewis about doing 3D graphics in HTML 5. Paul has built a 3D engine in HTML 5 called A3. The conversation dives into the power of 3D rendering in the latest generation of browser and how it affects people. Paul talks about how he balances his time between his code monkey work and his undulating monkey work. Richard pops out an article about how physical textures, weight and size affect psychology and how that can impact your UX design. Lots of discussion about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl and Richard Drive Electric Cars! Carl and Richard talk about electric cars with a special guest - Bruce Meacham! Bruce talks about his experience converting and driving a BMW 325 to pure electric. After talking about conversions, they dig into electric cars like the Telsa Roadster, S and Nissan Leaf. Next, the discussion turns to hybrid cars, with their advantages and disadvantages. The show wraps up with solutions for batteries, including talking a bit about fuel cells. The future is electric cars, so come geek out on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky and Billy Introduce WinRT! Introducing episode one of The Tablet Show, a new weekly .NET Rocks! spinoff primarily for .NET developers but focused on Tablet development (WinRT/Metro, iOS and Android). For the inaugural show, Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka and Billy Hollis about their assessments of Windows 8, WinRT and the Metro UI. After discussing what WinRT is, the discussion dives into the real challenges of migrating applications to Metro. Rocky talks about migrating the CSLA Silverlight edition to Metro. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle Carl and Richard talk to Philip Laureano about Nemerle. Nemerle is a multi-paradigm programming language for .NET. Similar to C#, it goes beyond C# to provide metaprogramming features, allowing you to write code that changes code on the fly. Phil digs deep into the idea that programming languages should change to reflect what we want to do and is not afraid to do the changes himself, rather than wait for Microsoft. Brain twisting? Wait til you listen to the show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Philpott Develops in X++ Carl and Richard talk to Greg Philpott about X++, the most popular language you've never heard of. X++ is the programming language for Microsoft Dynamics AX, an Enterprise Resource Planning product formerly known as Navision. Greg digs into how X++ allows programmers to extend Dynamics AX, adding whole new modules as well as customizing behavior in the existing system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control! Carl and Richard talk to Guy Smith-Ferrier about the Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset. No really! Mind control for .NET! Guy talks about how the headset is wireless and works with 16 different sensors positioned around the head. The headset is able to detect expressions, head movements, cognitive thoughts and emotions. Guy discusses how the SDK makes it simple to capture the headset data into .NET. Its easy to program, the question is, what would you do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremiah Peschka Stores Data in CorrugatedIron Carl and Richard talk to Jeremiah Peschka about his project, CorrugatedIron, a .NET library that gives developers the ability to talk to Riak, Basho's highly-available Key-Value store. The conversation starts with understanding Riak, which is based on Amazon's Dynamo white paper for dynamic distributed storage. Along the way the topics of NoSQL as a whole, distributed data storage, load balancing and functional programming are explored. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show 700 - What happened at BUILD did NOT stay at BUILD Carl and Richard took thier recording rig to Tim Huckaby's epic party the night before Steven Sinofsky's keynote at the Microsoft BUILD conference September 13, 2011. They asked the industry insiders to speculate on what they would see. This is an interesting show simply because the veil of secrecy has finally been lifted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch Carl and Richard talk to Jay Schmelzer about LightSwitch. Jay talks about the launch of LightSwitch back on July 26 2011, and the new set of extensions available to help Visual Studio Pro developers support LightSwitch applications. He also reminds us that if you own Visual Studio 2010, you own LightSwitch, so take it out for a spin! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl and Richard Return To Space! You asked for it, you got it - another space show! This time around Carl and Richard talk about the latest news around commercial space, including new contracts for SpaceX and Orbital Science to fly to the ISS. They discuss the impact of the failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship to the ISS. Then they have some real fun and dive into the space debris debate and the potential of space elevators. Another total space geek out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations Carl and Richard talk to James Dawson and Grace Mollison about the DevOps movement. DevOps is about developers and operations personnel working closely together to deliver higher quality, more reliable applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Cravens Compares and Contrasts Cold Fusion and ASP.NET After Richard made some (somewhat) disparaging remarks about Cold Fusion, Billy sent an email defending the platform. The outcome of that email discussion is this show - Carl and Richard get educated by Billy about what Cold Fusion is about. Cold Fusion goes back to 1995, and is still going strong at version 10! Billy talks about the similarities and differences between Cold Fusion and ASP.NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory on the History of C, C++ and C++0x. Carl and Richard talk to Kate Gregory about the history of C, culminating in the latest version, C++0x (aka C++ 11). Kate points out that C++ is more popular than ever, no matter what the managed memory folks are saying. The conversation works through the various flavors of C, how the language has continued to evolve, even to the point of doing memory management! Along the way Kate digs into the new features of C++0x, many of which (like lambdas) seem awfully familiar... the conversation en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets Carl and Richard talk to Kerry Hammil about .NET Gadgeteer. The .NET Gadgeteer project comes out of Microsoft Research and is advancing the .NET Micro Framework with new hardware that does not require experienced electronics people to be successful with. Everything is plug-and-play! The conversation moves on to what would happen when everything in your house has an IP address and further on into the Internet of Things. Another good geekout show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza Start Xamarin Carl and Richard talk to Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza, the CEO and CTO (respectively) of Xamarin. Xamarin is the company that Nat and Miguel set up to house the Mono Project and the rest of the Mono related products including MonoTouch and Mono for Android after Novell acquired Attachmate. The conversation starts out on mobile development and moves to tablets. Click the link below for a 20% discount on Xamarin tools! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emily Lewis Builds the Web One MicroFormat at a Time Carl and Richard talk to Emily Lewis about HTML5, CSS3, Microformats, and general web development topics. Emily calls herself a 'standardista' and demonstrates that in the conversation, talking about the advantage of using schemas to identify different types of data in your web pages. Could this be the return of XML schemas in a way that makes sense? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loren Goodman Programs By the Rules Carl and Richard talk to Loren Goodman from InRule Technologies about rule engines. Loren talks about how rule engines help applications organize rules so that non-developers can modify them. The goal is to reduce maintenance costs for software. The conversation moves over to concepts of complex event processing and how it applies to developing new rules dynamically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way Carl and Richard talk to JD Meier from Microsoft about leading an agile life. JD talks about how he learned to be effective as a product manager at Microsoft, and how that lead to developing the Agile Life book. It may have a developer undertone, but the Agile Life is aimed at everyone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker about DotNetNuke. Shaun talks about the release of DotNetNuke 6, offering some substantial changes to DNN, including migrating to C# (from VB.NET). The conversation also digs into the lifestyle of having a dominant community (read: free) edition of your product vs. the commercial edition. Shaun also talks about how web development has evolved since the early days of ASP.NET. And it runs in Windows Azure! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl and Richard Space Out! You asked for it - Carl and Richard geek out about space. With the space shuttle retiring, the boys debate the relative merits of the shuttle program and where space should go next. Carl loves Virgin Galactic and Richard loves SpaceX. But what about Armadillo Aerospace and Bigelow Space? Join the boys for a good old fashioned geek out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tatham Oddie Makes HTML 5 and Silverlight Play Nice Together Carl and Richard talk to Tatham Oddie about building web applications using HTML 5 *and* Silverlight. Tatham talks about the idea that the two technologies are not mutually exclusive - that you can take advantage of the mix of browsers and plugins to build the best experience possible for users. The conversation also moves into data and connectivity in general, ending up on cloud platforms. Tatham talks about how Azure can't scale down far enough, that technologies like AppHarbor are fillin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS Carl and Richard talk to Cristian Libardo about N2 CMS. N2 CMS is an open source CMS system designed to be very light weight and allow developers to work with editors to build great web sites. Cristian talks about how N2 CMS focuses on strongly typed code to define structure to the web site and only content in databases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities Carl and Richard talk to Julie Lerman about Entity Framework. Julie talks about her Entity Framework books - one for EF1, the other for EF4. The conversation digs into Entity Framework 4.1 and the key features added, as well as the June CTP which added even more. Julie talks about enum support in the CTP, which was the most demanded feature, but then goes onto the other cool areas of the CTP, including new model support, spatial, table-value functions and support for stored procedures that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pete Brown Has Fun With Silverlight and More! Carl and Richard talk to Pete Brown from Microsoft about the cool things he's working on, including building a Commodore 64 emulator in Silverlight! Pete also touches on the fact that Silverlight is not dying at all - there's lots of good things going on! The conversation digs into Pete's favorite new features of Silverlight 5. Pete is the author of Silverlight 5 in Action, you can get a discount by using code s5ia38 at the Manning web site. Ultimately the conversation ends up on the .NET M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rendle Has Some Simple.Data Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about Simple.Data. As Mark describes it, Simple.Data is not an ORM because there's no objects and no relational mapping. Simple.Data is a dynamic data utility to make your data persistence layer as light weight as possible. Mark also talks about Nancy, a light-weight web development framework. The conversation also moves to OWIN, the Open Web Server Interface. The show wraps up with Mark's insights on simpler, more open software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams late of Microsoft, now at Google. Recently moved to Palo Alto, Brad talks about Google+, Google's social networking application for sharing thoughts, pictures and video. Brad has just joined the team to start developing API for developers to work with Google+. The conversation moves onto Google's Web Toolkit and App Engine, products Brad spent his first year at Google on. Brad digs into his thinking around building platforms, what it really means to comp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rey Bango is all about Javascript Carl and Richard talk to Rey Bango from Microsoft about his web development career. Rey has deep ties into the Javascript community and talks about how Javascript development process has evolved. Today Rey takes care of the Script Junkies web site at Microsoft with some awesome cross browser content and code. The conversation also digs into the state of HTML 5 and it's potential in mobile development. Rey also walks through his tool kit of Javascript libraries. The show closes with a discus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sebastien Lambla Builds OpenRasta Carl and Richard talk to Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta and OpenWrap. OpenRasta is a framework for simplifying building resource-oriented web-based applications. OpenRasta can work with ASP.NET or directly with HTTP.SYS. OpenRasta will work side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC, Webforms and more. Sebastien also talks about OpenWrap, a package manager for .NET that helps OpenRasta stay lean but extensible. Sebastien also speaks passionately about the role of Open Source in the Microsoft community ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen Architect S#arply Carl and Richard talk to Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen about S#arp architecture. S#arp architecture provides guidance on how to build ASP.NET MVC applications with nHibernate. It follows Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design principles very closely. The conversation also jumped over to StyleCop, the CodePlex project for standardizing code standards and Templify, an open source tool for building T4 templates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC One more show from NDC - a silly one. Late in the conference, Carl and Richard talked to Uncle Bob Martin about professionalism, clean code and the Clojure language. Lots of jokes and giggling in this one - we were all getting a little punchy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile Development Panel Discussion from NDC! What, another mobile panel? Yes - a totally different one. This mobile panel discussion was recorded at the Norwegian Developer Conference. Lots of strong debate about HTML 5 vs. native applications, the power and problems of PhoneGap and how app stores are breaking down. Not to be missed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie at NDC! Fresh off his keynote at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Scott Guthrie dropped into the fishbowl to talk to Carl and Richard about his new role with the Azure team. Scott digs into how Azure has evolved and his focus on improving the developer experience. The conversation wraps up with a chat about the upcoming Build conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ingo Rammer Builds Native HTML 5 Apps While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard talk to Ingo Rammer about building 'native' HTML 5 apps. Ingo talks about PhoneGap, a wrapper over HTML for building applications that run on all mobile platforms. But then he goes further, talking about other variations on the idea of using HTML 5 as the presentation markup while still being able to connect to the native resources of the platform. Could this be the programming platform of the future? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security! While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Dominick Baier to talk about claims-based security. Dominick walks through the entire claims-based security process, separating identity claims from resource claims, how to actually work with active directory in a sensible way and how the whole thing comes together in your code in a way that won't make you cry every time you need to make a change. The time for claims-based security is now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories from NDC! While at the Norwegian Developer Conference, Carl and Richard collected a couple of stories from the speakers at the event. First up is Magnus Mårtensson and Björn Ekengren talking about Java on Azure. No really! Next, Gill Cleeran and Kevin Dockx talk about where Silverlight is going... to version five and beyond! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC While at the Norwegian Developers Conference, Carl and Richard moderated a panel discussion on Aspect Oriented Programming. The discussion ranges over a diverse number of scenarios that aspects make sense for, how you can get in trouble with aspects, and the various aspect toolsets that exist. The audience jumps in with lots of questions for panelists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Bone Goes Parallel with Project Mercury Carl and Richard talk to Paul Bone about the Mercury Project. Mercury is a logic programming language designed to natually execute in parallel without requiring the programmer to understand much about parallelism. Get ready for some brain-twisting - this sort of programming is quite different from what you're use to! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile Development Panel Discussion from DevTeach While at DevTeach in Montreal, Carl and Richard sat down with a panel of mobile development experts to talk about where mobile development is at. The development process for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 was explored. The conversation also dug into the potential of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, alternative ways of building applications for iPhone and Android respectively. Finally, the debate dug into HTML 5 and the dream of building an application once that runs on all p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Neilsen Develops for the Cloud Carl and Richard talk to David Neilsen about doing cloud development. David digs into the various flavors of cloud, defining the differences between Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service. David is one of the original organizers of CloudCamp, free one day events to help people get started with the cloud. The conversation then digs into the challenge of migrating existing .NET applications to Azure. David finishes by defining the core criteria of cloud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories from Tech Ed US! While at Tech Ed US in Atlanta, Carl and Richard talked to a variety of folks about the work they're doing in .NET. First up was Geert van de Horrik, talking about the Catel MVVM framework. Then Miguel Castro talked about MVVM. We also caught up with Stephen Rose who discussed Windows InTune. And finally, Tod Anglin from Telerik talked a bit about HTML 5. These are the stories from Tech Ed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about identity. Michele starts the conversation with the state of the union on identity. She walks through the evolution of identity concepts and how the various peices are being implemented. Michele also talks about the rise of REST-based identity (as opposed to SOAP-based) and the efforts to simplify identity. She also talks about Access Control Services (ACS), which is part of Azure AppFabric. oAuth, OpenID, Claims-Based Identity... this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories Ignoring the unusual show number, Steve Smith talks to Carl and Richard about his experiences tuning ASP.NET for better performance. Steve tells three different stories from different eras of web development, also digging into situations where he's made mistakes, where he's found mistakes, and when he wished he'd called Microsoft tech support sooner. Don't let the number scare you, this is a great show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Arteaga Talks Windows Phone 7 and Mango Carl and Richard talk to Mark Arteaga about his experiences building Windows Phone 7 applications. The conversation starts with a run down of what's coming in the upcoming Mango release. Mark then digs into the challenges of small teams building games for the phone, and what enterprise developers are going to need to be successful with the phone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Astronomy on DotNetRocks - ICRAR and SKA Carl and Richard talk to professors Andreas Wicenec and Kevin Vinsen of the ICRAR and SKA project. SKA is the Square Kilometer Array for radio astronomy. The concept is to build a really huge array of radio telescopes that work together to provide far deeper resolution into space. SKA plans on a first phase of 1,000 12 meter radio telescopes. ICRAR is the data processing project for handling the massive amounts of data that are generated by SKA. How much data are we talking? 7 petabits a se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lagunas Uses the Extended WPF Toolkit Carl and Richard talk to Brian Lagunas about the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit goes beyond Microsoft's WPF Toolkit to add even more controls for WPF. Since September 2010, Brian has been adding controls to the library, as of April 2011 he's up to 21 controls! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Koen Zwikstra Spies on Silverlight Carl and Richard talk to Koen Zwikstra. Koen is the author of Silverlight Spy, a tool for inspecting the run time of a Silverlight application in browser, out-of-browser and even in Windows Phone 7. Think of it as Reflector or View Source for Silverlight! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Block Simplifies WCF with WebAPI Richard caught up with Glenn Block at Mix 2011 to find out what he's been working on since the MEF days. After a quick tour down memory lane about MEF and Brad Abrams, Glenn discusses WCF Web APIs. The Web APIs focus WCF onto pure HTTP, making it easier to build RESTful applications while not requiring your applications to use REST. WCF Web APIs are all about creating HTTP clients and servers that do not have to be browsers and web servers, opening HTTP to a whole new world of devices and s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chatting with the Imagine Cup Winners! While Richard is climbing a mountain in Nepal, Carl talks to the US regional winners of Imagine Cup 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Hollis is a XAML Developer While at Mix 2011, Richard talked to Billy Hollis about XAML development. Billy talks about the balance between WPF and Silverlight work, how he chooses which approach to use. The conversation also digs into steering clear of the 'One Right Way' mindset, and how right now is a great time to be ready to experiment with new technologies - XAML, touch and even gesture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery After getting an email from Shaun van Halewyn in Christchurch, New Zealand, Carl and Richard talk to Pat Hynds about disaster recovery for developers. This show is less about technology and more about planning - if you're responsible for your company's systems, have a listen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remi Caron Connects Applications using BizTalk and the Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit Carl and Richard talk to Remi Caron about his project utilizing Enterprise Service Bus architecture to connect a huge number of applications together. Remi talks about using Microsoft Biztalk with the Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit to create a consistent mechanism for having different applications 'report-up' to a common infrastructure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Campbell Talks Tech Ed 101 Carl interviews Richard about Tech Ed US in Atlanta. Richard does the Tech Ed 101 sessions at the conference, in the interview he shares his secrets for how to get the most from Tech Ed. Carl and Richard also talk about their own activities at Tech Ed US, including Speaker Idol and the 64 Bit Question game show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes is looking through Prism 4 Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about Prism 4. Prism is a combination of guidance and tooling from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft to help build WPF and Silverlight based applications. Brian digs into why Prism exists and what has been added to the latest version of Prism to work with Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4. There's also a version for Windows Phone 7! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Wahlin Digs Deep on Web Client Development While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard talk to Dan Wahlin about the state of web client development. Dan talks about his experiences with Silverlight, HTML 5, MVC and jQuery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luca Passani Builds Mobile Web Pages with WURFL Carl and Richard talk to Luca Passani about WURFL. WURFL stands for Wireless Universal Resource File. Originally, WURFL was an XML file containing the device capabilities of a huge variety of mobile devices. Today its available in a variety of database formats, including formats friendly to .NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Randall Goes Virtual Live at DevConnections! Recorded in front of the DevConnection audience in Orlando, Carl and Richard talk to Brian Randall about virtualization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure Carl and Richard talk to Cory Fowler about running PHP on Azure. Cory digs into the challenges of getting PHP up and running in Azure, especially the evil popup dialog box. Cory also points out the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Command Line edition that allows you to install anything from the WebPI onto Azure. The conversation also digs into the differences between Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft runs open source software well on Azure, check it out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini, aka Ayende Rahein, about RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL JSON document database. Oren explains how he came to the realization that he needed to build his own data store, and the advantages of document databases over relational databases. Is SQL dead? Not hardly, but RavenDB is an interesting addition to your data solution! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lippert Talks About Project Roslyn Recorded on PI day, Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Eric Lippert from the C# Compiler team. But we don't only talk about C#! The conversation wanders around all the languages, a little F#, a little IronPython, heck, even VB.NET! Eric talks about Project Roslyn, Microsoft's efforts to make the C# compiler available as a service. A little artificial intelligence, a little parallelism, and you've got one brain twisting show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jean Paoli is All About Web Interoperability Carl and Richard talk to Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft. Jean Paoli was part of the team at the W3C that created the XML specification. Jean does a great job of helping us understand how huge the interoperability effort at Microsoft is. He also digs into the iterative (almost agile!) process of developing web specifications by building prototype code and taking that experience back to the working group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS Carl and Richard talk to Adam Driscoll of Quest Software. The conversation starts with a discussion around Adam's TFS plugin for Android. Then it moves into PowerGUI and the PowerGUI extensions for Visual Studio. PowerGUI is a UI for writing PowerShell scripts and PowerGUI VSX ties PowerGUI into Studio. Adam talks about applications can be built to be PowerShell driven with UI over top to generate the PowerShell commands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Snook Takes CSS3 Seriously Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Snook about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Jon is a designer and developer, which makes him a rare creature indeed. He talks about the history and role of CSS in web development and how CSS3 makes significant strides in equalizing design and layout between browsers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Millett Gets Our Specs Sharp! Carl and Richard talk to Scott Millett about SpecFlow, a free tool to help you implement Behaviour Driven Design. SpecFlow lets you build plain text requirements that actually connect with code and tests to help reinforce acceptance testing. The conversation also wanders over design patterns in general and ASP.NET specifically. Scott also talks through the various free tools he uses together to build better software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Alstad Makes Javascript Perform Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad about the state of Javascript today. Kent admits that he has fallen in love with Javascript of late, that the newest browsers make Javascript incredibly fast and powerful. The conversation digs into how to keep Javascript fast, which is primarily focused on downloading the right bytes at the right time - when in doubt, delay! Kent is down in the nitty gritty of web site performance, his insight on what to do to make things go faster will blow your mind. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect! Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller and Seth Juarez about their crazy experiments with Kinect. The boys discuss how they are building an interface with Kinect to do programming with Visual Studio 2010. A large part of this conversation ends up diving deep into the relative merits of machine learning in systems. Are we crossing the streams? You bet! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Lawson and Remi Sharp on HTML 5 Carl and Richard talk to Bruce Lawson and Remi Sharp about HTML 5. Bruce and Remy have been involved with HTML 5 from the early days, although more as activists than movers-and-shakers. They provide some great insight into how HTML 5 has come to be and how regular developers can get involved and affect the outcome of an important specification. Bruce and Remy have one of the very first books out on HTML 5, creatively named Introduction to HTML 5. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giorgio Sardo on the IE9 Release Candidate Carl and Richard talk to Giorgio Sardo about the IE9 Release Candidate. Giorgio talks about his experience with Imagine Cup a few years back before diving into what's new in IE9. These features include geolocation and Web Open Font Format. Giorgio also digs into the test strategies of IE9 as well as performance. When will IE9 be released? Giorgio won't say! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gael Fraiteur is Still PostSharp! Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur about the state of PostSharp and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Gael talks about the advantage of AOP, modifying applications without changing source code by using post-compilation techniques. He digs into different examples of using AOP to add features without burying business code in the plumbing. Finally Gael talks about the evolution of PostSharp into community and retail versions and what is coming in version 2.1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udi Dahan Clarifies CQRS Carl and Richard talk to Udi Dahan about Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). CQRS is an enterprise application pattern derived from the DDD movement, where responsibility for data integrity and consistency lies soley in the application itself. The conversation digs deeply into using caching intelligently - not just create and expire, but actual maintenance of caching with a publication approach. Udi is the software simplist and makes this potentially confusing pattern absolutel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Eisenberg MVVMs Us with Caliburn.Micro! Carl and Richard talk to Rob Eisenberg about Caliburn.Micro, a MVVM framework available on Codeplex. Caliburn.Micro takes Convention-over-Configuration further, utilizing naming conventions to handle a large number of data binding, validation and other action-based characteristics in your app. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entering the WebMatrix! Carl and Richard talk to Josh Holmes about Microsoft's Web Matrix! Josh keynoted the launch of WebMatrix at CodeMash in January 2011. Web Matrix brings together great installer technologies with some of the latest Microsoft web application technologies to make it dirt simple to deploy and maintain web sites. The tool is free and the projects you make can be maintained with Studio Express or full blown Visual Studio. Enter the WebMatrix! You'll be glad you did. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe O'Brien Does Ruby on Windows Carl and Richard talk to Joe O'Brien about efforts to bring Ruby on Rails to the Windows platform. The conversation digs into current community efforts to get Ruby on Rails working on Windows, the state of IronRuby and the role that Visual Studio could bring to Ruby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Russell Develops XNA Games for XBox, iPhone and More! Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Russell about converting applications from XNA to Silverlight, iPhone and even Android. Andrew is working on a project called ExEn to make migration between these platforms easier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson Educate Kids in Software! Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in programming. The conversation spans over use of computers in schools, teaching fundamental uses of computers, actual programming, and looking beyond. Andrew gets into Imagine Cup, a world-wide competition of students building software to change the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 Carl and Richard talk to Grant Skinner about Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML 5 game. The game runs on all of the HTML 5 browsers including IE 9 Beta. The conversation also digs into Easel JS, an open-source library that Grant helped create to make Pirates, simplifying the animation process on HTML 5 canvas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 Carl and Richard talk to Grant Skinner about Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML 5 game. The game runs on all of the HTML 5 browsers including IE 9 Beta. The conversation also digs into Easel JS, an open-source library that Grant helped create to make Pirates, simplifying the animation process on HTML 5 canvas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doc Norton Sharpens His Saw Carl and Richard talk to Michael 'Doc' Norton about how developers can grow their career. The conversation dives deep into techniques and approaches to practice in development, comparing it to music and katas. The reference 'sharpen the saw' comes from Stephen Covey, and focuses on the idea of practice independent of work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson Educate Kids in Software! Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in programming. The conversation spans over use of computers in schools, teaching fundamental uses of computers, actual programming, and looking beyond. Andrew gets into Imagine Cup, a world-wide competition of students building software to change the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Toub is more Parallel than Ever Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Toub from Microsoft about parallel development. Stephen digs into the Async-CTP, released in October 2010, to provide asynchronous keywords Async and Await. The conversation also digs into what's coming next in the parallel space from the team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DotNetRocks and JavaPosse Together at CodeMash Carl and Richard participated in a panel discussion at Codemash 2011 on January 12, 2011 alongside the hosts of the popular Java Posse podcast. The discussion was moderated by Barry Hawkins. They talked about the differences and similarities between the Java and .NET ecosystems, the origins of their podcast (and ours), and more. Even if you're not a Java developer this is great stuff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk does TFS in the Cloud Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about the state of Team Foundation Server (TFS) today. Joel digs into how TFS has moved into the cloud and is reaching a larger span of developers. The conversation digs into how to split the work of development up between cloud and premise - source code on the cloud, builds locally, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk does TFS in the Cloud Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about the state of Team Foundation Server (TFS) today. Joel digs into how TFS has moved into the cloud and is reaching a larger span of developers. The conversation digs into how to split the work of development up between cloud and premise - source code on the cloud, builds locally, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk does TFS in the Cloud Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about the state of Team Foundation Server (TFS) today. Joel digs into how TFS has moved into the cloud and is reaching a larger span of developers. The conversation digs into how to split the work of development up between cloud and premise - source code on the cloud, builds locally, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Japikse is All About BDD While at CodeMash, Carl and Richard talk to Phil Japikse about Behaviour Driven Developement. Phil has been doing TDD and BDD for years and has an interesting take on how to be successful with the process - primarily getting over the 'blank slate syndrome.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! Carl and Richard talk to Boris Scheiman about nKinect, a codeplex project to bring Kinect to .NET! Boris talks about what it takes to make nKinect work and the new features that are coming, while Carl and Richard geek out on the possibilities. Minority Report is here! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Conery Talks OpenID and More Rob Conery tells us why OpenID is a nightmare, and why he's stopped using it. Oh yeah, he's also given up Twitter. We also talked about the mind/body connection and the challenges of working at home. Also: whale watching, home brewing, music, barbeque, wine, and following your bliss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gus Issa Has a Micro .NET Framework! Carl and Richard talk to Gus Issa from GHI Electronics, a company that makes small programmable boards, devices, controllers, and sensors that use the .NET Micro Framework to allow Visual Studio developers to program smart hardware devices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DotNetRocks Year In Review Carl, Richard and Mark Miller chat about events that occurred in 2010 that affect the .NET world. From C# to F#, Studio to Lightswitch, Windows Phone 7 to Kinect. What a great year! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaun Walker on the state of DotNetNuke Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker, CTO of DotNetNuke Corp. Last time Shaun was on the show, the commercial version of DotNetNuke was just starting out. Shaun brings us up to date on the state of the business, the balance between community and commercial, and the evolution of the store front for the thousands of plug-in products for DotNetNuke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Falsken Builds Object Databases Carl and Richard talk to Eric Falsken of db4o. db4o is an open source object database for Java and .NET. Object databases have been around since the 1980s, but recently have become part of the NoSQL movement. Eric discusses the NoSQL movement in general and how various products fit into the ecosystem, including db4o. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miguel de Icaza Builds .NET Apps on the Mac with MonoMac Carl and Richard talk to Miguel de Icaza about MonoMac and rest the of the Mono universe. MonoMac is a set of tools to let .NET developers build applications for the Mac using the Mac UI elements in Cocoa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobility at Øredev Carl and Richard did a series of interviews at Øredev with folks building mobile applications. First up is Jeff Wilcox, who talks about Silverlight in the context of Windows Phone 7 and beyond. Next, Marcus Zarra talks about building iPhone and iPad applications. Third, Sanyu Kiruluta discusses building applications for Blackberry. Finally, Carl and Richard talk to Evan Doll, former Apple employee and co-founder of Flipboard about his incredible social media application for iPad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, HTML 5 ,oData and more! Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, HTML 5, oData and more! Yes, a lot of topics, but it all holds together on how people are going to build applications in the future, for the desktop, the web and the phones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel Discussion on Data Access in Silverlight at DevReach Carl and Richard talk to John Waters and Walt Ritscher about the data access technologies available to work with Silverlight. The conversation wanders over all of XAML, including WPF and Windows Phone 7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie is still working on Silverlight Carl and Richard chat with Microsoft Vice President and all around great guy, Scott Guthrie. Scott talks about some of the new features coming in Silverlight 5. The conversation jumps over to HTML 5 toward the end, focusing on what ASP.NET will support in the space. Apologies for Carl's phone track. We'll try to be better people. :) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie is still working on Silverlight Carl and Richard chat with Microsoft Vice President and all around great guy, Scott Guthrie. Scott talks about some of the new features coming in Silverlight 5. The conversation jumps over to HTML 5 toward the end, focusing on what ASP.NET will support in the space. Apologies for Carl's phone track. We'll try to be better people. :) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Up in the Clouds at Øredev! Another set of stories from Øredev, this time about cloud technology. First up is Chris Auld, talking about the economics of Azure. Next is Adrian Cole, talking about jCloud provisioning. Third is a deep discussion with Jim Webber and Ian Robinson about REST. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Woodward Brings Team Foundation Server to Everyone! Carl and Richard talk to Martin Woodward about Team Foundation Server being used for more than just .NET development. Martin used to work for Teamprise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2009. The conversation ranges over the new features of TFS 2010, how Java developers can also use TFS, the effects of different process templates in TFS, and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing Your Career at Øredev! This show is three interviews recorded at Øredev, all around thoughts to expand your career and education. The first is from Michael Norton, discussing taking control of your career. Second, a conversation with Dave Hoover about the apprenticeship and journeyman process of software craftsmanship. Finally, Bill Pugh talks about teaching college students to program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Keynoters at Øredev This show is a collection of interviews with the keynote speakers at Øredev. First up is a conversation with Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA, who's keynote focused on the agility shown by folks like Alexander Graham Bell. Next, John Seddon talks about maturing management techniques to get management out of the way of productivity. Finally, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E Cheese, talks about the future of education. Three amazing luminaries in one show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET Luminaries at OreDev! While at OreDev 2010 in Malmö, Sweden, Carl and Richard got to interview some of the great thinkers and doers of .NET. The first interview is with Jon Skeet, who talks about the upcoming Async features in C# 5. Next, Glenn Block talks about where WCF is going and the move to put WCF source at wcf.codeplex.com. Finally, Ade Miller digs into how parallel development is becoming a focus at Microsoft. This is the first in a series of shows from OreDev 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C# Carl and Richard talk to Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner about C#. Both Jon and Bill have published books on C# and have reach each other's work. But C# is such a vast language, there are plenty of things that are subject to interpretation. We could have called this show a C# Smackdown, but these guys are too nice for such a thing! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Natural User Interfaces at SDC! While at SDC in Zeist, Netherlands, Carl and Richard talked to Scott Stanfield and Tim Huckaby about where user interfaces are going. The conversation ranged over touch, Kinect and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Huckaby Live at DevConnections While at DevConnections in Las Vegas, Carl and Richard talk to Tim Huckaby about his new company, turning the great innovations from Interknowlogy into products. Tim digs into his favorite NUI topics, as well as exploring the differences between services and product companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designers and Developers at DevReach! While at DevReach 2010 in Bulgaria, Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield, Stephen Forte and Lino Tadros about the working relationship between developers and designers. The conversation explores a number of platforms, including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, Silverlight, Flash and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward and Dierk Konig Compare .NET and JVM Evolution While at DevCon in London, Carl and Richard hosted a discussion with guests Ted Neward and Dierk Konig about the differences and similarities between .NET and the JVM. The discussion ranges over the different languages that are implemented against the platform, how the ownership model of the platforms differs and how that impacts the evolution, right down to how to make the two platforms work and play well with each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C# Carl and Richard talk to Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner about C#. Both Jon and Bill have published books on C# and have read each other's work. But C# is such a vast language, there are plenty of things that are subject to interpretation. We could have called this show a C# Smackdown, but these guys are too nice for such a thing! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Lhotka is CSLA and More From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka. What else is there to say? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Randell is Completely Virtual From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Brian Randell about his work with TFS and Hyper-V. The conversation digs into testing infrastructure using Hyper-V. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Web Apps from Tech Ed New Zealand While Carl and Richard were at Tech Ed New Zealand, Richard moderated a panel discussion on the future of web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Evans Knows IT Carl and Richard talk to Steve Evans during the .NET Rocks Live Weekend. Steve and Richard totally geek out on living in the space between development and infrastructure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Internet Explorer 9 with Pete LePage While at TechDays in Vancouver, Carl and Richard recorded a .NET Rocks Live with Pete LePage, talking about IE9, which had just been released to public beta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show 600! Holy cow, it's show 600! Carl and Richard look back on memorable moments from the last 100 shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Brust Gets All BI On Us Andrew Brust joins Carl and Richard on the .NET Rocks Live Weekend to talk a little Business Intelligence. The conversation also jumps to Windows Phone 7, Google Android and the Apple iPad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Relph Wants More Windows Applications! While at TechDays Vancouver, Carl and Richard talk to Mark Relph from the Microsoft Windows team about building Windows applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building More Windows Phone 7 Applications Carl and Richard talk to two different developers currently working on Windows Phone 7 applications: Jeff Walker and Ahmed Zaman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Hollis Still Builds Apps From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis. Billy was last on the show during the .NET Rocks Road Trip, and it seems like the conversation just picked up from there... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brandon Watson and Friends Build Windows Phone 7 Apps! In the first of a two-part series on the Windows Phone, Carl and Richard talk to developers in the field currently building Windows Phone 7 apps. A talk with Brandon Watson from the WP7 team kicks it off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Petzold Talks New UI From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Charles Petzold about the old days of development and the new days - Charles is focused on WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Hynds Still Cares About Security Pat Hynds talks to Carl and Richard during the .NET Rocks Live Weekend about how security still matters in the mature .NET 4.0 world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Howard is very Telligent From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard catch up with Rob Howard. Rob talks about how Telligent has changed and their new focus on a different customer base that has significantly refocused their product development efforts toward social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Howard is very Telligent From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard catch up with Rob Howard. Rob talks about how Telligent has changed and their new focus on a different customer base that has significantly refocused their product development efforts toward social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Howard is very Telligent From the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard catch up with Rob Howard. Rob talks about how Telligent has changed and their new focus on a different customer base that has significantly refocused their product development efforts toward social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories from Tech Ed Australia! While at Tech Ed Australia, Carl and Richard did a variety of interviews with speakers and attendees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Dunn is All About Training During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to former co-host Mark Dunn about his working in training programmers to be more productive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sahil Malik is Still Nutty About Sharepoint Another great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Sahil Malik about Sharepoint 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sahil Malik is Still Nutty About Sharepoint Another great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Sahil Malik about Sharepoint 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethan Winer, Very Old School During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Ethan Winer about the old days of development as well as audio systems, design and myths. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethan Winer, Very Old School During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talk to Ethan Winer about the old days of development as well as audio systems, design and myths. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward Programs in Everything Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward during the Live Weekend go back over the acquisition of Sun by Oracle and the potential for Oracle to muster a significant move in the development marketplace. Ted also talks about his exploring of other languages, including Objective-C for the iPhone. The conversation also explores how Oracle will have to rationalize their collection of databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward Programs in Everything Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward during the Live Weekend go back over the acquisition of Sun by Oracle and the potential for Oracle to muster a significant move in the development marketplace. Ted also talks about his exploring of other languages, including Objective-C for the iPhone. The conversation also explores how Oracle will have to rationalize their collection of databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Stanfield Advertises Online A great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield from Vertigo. Scott discusses Vertigo's work around building video players for the NFL, Olympics and more. The conversation drives into how the advertising models around these events work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Stanfield Advertises Online A great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield from Vertigo. Scott discusses Vertigo's work around building video players for the NFL, Olympics and more. The conversation drives into how the advertising models around these events work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Hundhausen looks anew at Scrum Regional Director and MVP Richard Hundhausen takes a new look at Scrum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Hundhausen looks anew at Scrum Regional Director and MVP Richard Hundhausen takes a new look at Scrum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes Looks Through Prism A show from the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Brian Noyes talks about what's coming up in the latest incarnation of Prism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes Looks Through Prism A show from the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Brian Noyes talks about what's coming up in the latest incarnation of Prism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Schmelzer unveils Microsoft LightSwitch Jay Schmelzer takes the wraps off Microsoft LightSwitch, a new tool that promises to significantly reduce the complexity involved in producing line of business applications for the cloud and the desktop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Schmelzer unveils Microsoft LightSwitch Jay Schmelzer takes the wraps off Microsoft LightSwitch, a new tool that promises to significantly reduce the complexity involved in producing line of business applications for the cloud and the desktop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hanselman Enters the WebMatrix Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hanselman (yeah, *that* Scott Hanselman) about WebMatrix, a new set of tools added to the Web Platform Installer to make building and deploying web sites much easier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hanselman Enters the WebMatrix Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hanselman (yeah, *that* Scott Hanselman) about WebMatrix, a new set of tools added to the Web Platform Installer to make building and deploying web sites much easier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Alstad is All About Performance Another great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad, Richard's partner in crime at Strangeloop. Kent talks about his latest thoughts on making web sites go faster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Alstad is All About Performance Another great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad, Richard's partner in crime at Strangeloop. Kent talks about his latest thoughts on making web sites go faster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Block is Still a MEF Head During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talked to Glenn Block - discovering he was no longer with the MEF team, but was still a MEF head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Block is Still a MEF Head During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talked to Glenn Block - discovering he was no longer with the MEF team, but was still a MEF head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tribune does Azure Jerry Schulist from Tribune company talks to Carl and Richard about Tribune's embrace of Microsoft Azure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tribune does Azure Jerry Schulist from Tribune company talks to Carl and Richard about Tribune's embrace of Microsoft Azure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silverlight PivotViewer Matt Jubelirer from Microsoft talks with Carl and Richard about Silverlight PivotViewer, a radical new tool based on Deep Zoom for conceptualizing data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silverlight Pivot Matt Jubelirer from Microsoft talks with Carl and Richard about Silverlight Pivot, a radical new tool based on Deep Zoom for conceptualizing data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Roy Osherove at NDC Roy Osherove talks about his experience moving his software company's build servers into the cloud. Recorded June 17th in the Fishbowl at the Norwegian Developer's Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Roy Osherove at NDC Roy Osherove talks about his experience moving his software company's build servers into the cloud. Recorded June 17th in the Fishbowl at the Norwegian Developer's Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Juarez on Machine Learning Carl and Richard talk to Seth Juarez on his work with Machine Learning algorithms. Seth breaks it down into a simple process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Juarez on Machine Learning Carl and Richard talk to Seth Juarez on his work with Machine Learning algorithms. Seth breaks it down into a simple process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Sanderson on MVVM, Knockout, and HTML 5 Steven Sanderson from the UK talks about Knockout, his open source library for doing databinding with Javascript using the MVVM pattern. The conversation goes from that to MVVM to HTML 5 and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Sanderson on MVVM, Knockout, and HTML 5 Steven Sanderson from the UK talks about Knockout, his open source library for doing databinding with Javascaript using the MVVM pattern. The conversation goes from that to MVVM to HTML 5 and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley treks up to Pwop Studios to talk to Carl and Richard during the .NET Rocks! Live Weekend. She's really smitten with the iPad. Hmmmm... what else? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley treks up to Pwop Studios to talk to Carl and Richard during the .NET Rocks! Live Weekend. She's really smitten with the iPad. Hmmmm... what else? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Chat with James Kovacs As Carl and Richard hang out in their comfy chairs broadcasting to your cell phone, James Kovacs talks briefly about psake, his Powershell-based build tool then goes on to talk about XML readability, designing XAML graphically, JQuery, the functionalness of Javascript, and the potential success of HTML 5. This show was recorded live during the .NET Rocks! Live Weekend. See the links below for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Kovacs on psake As Carl and Richard hang out in their comfy chairs broadcasting to your cell phone, James Kovacs talks about psake, his Powershell-based build tool. Other topics include XML readability, designing XAML graphically, JQuery, the functionalness of Javascript, and the potential success of HTML 5. This show was recorded live during the .NET Rocks! Live Weekend. See the links below for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clemens Vasters on Service Bus Clemens Vasters catches up with Carl and Richard at the Norwegian Developer's Conference to talk about the Service Bus, which Clemens is working on at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clemens Vasters on Service Bus Clemens Vasters catches up with Carl and Richard at the Norwegian Developer's Conference to talk about the Service Bus, which Clemens is working on at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Simmons on EF4 Daniel Simmons from Microsoft joins Carl and Richard on the DNR Live Weekend for an hour of Entity Framework goodness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Simmons on EF4 Daniel Simmons from Microsoft joins Carl and Richard on the DNR Live Weekend for an hour of Entity Framework goodness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Hazzard on Code Contracts Kevin Hazzard talks about Code Contracts, which grew out of Spec# and now exists in the .NET Framework 4.0. He also gives us his take on F#. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Hazzard on Code Contracts Kevin Hazzard talks about Code Contracts, which grew out of Spec# and now exists in the .NET Framework 4.0. He also gives us his take on F#. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET in your Car! Carl and Richard talk to Stacy Harris and John Mulinax from Microsoft, and TJ Giuli from Ford Motor Company about Fiestaware. No, not the plates your mother serves nachos on. Fiestaware is a framework developed by students for developing in-car applications that do everything from read your emails to seeing your buddies' locations on a bing map. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jackson Harper and Chris Hardy on Mono Jackson Harper from the Mono team and Chris Hardy, an ASPInsider talk to Carl and Richard about the state of Mono, Moonlight, and Monotouch, which Chris swears is not dead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon von Gillern Analyzes Code with Nitriq Jon von Gillern talks about his passion for coding, which has culminated in two unique code analysis products: Nitriq and Atomiq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Townhall Nick Schaper and Marc Mercuri talk about building America Speaking Out, a website where citizens can vote on political issues. ASO uses the Microsoft TownHall platform, a low-cost framework built on Azure and used by campaigns to build websites to help them keep in touch with their constituency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Evans Compares Amazon and Azure Steve Evans is back! This time he's comparing cloud offerings from Amazon and Windows Azure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rene Schulte on Augmented Reality in SL4 Rene Schulte talks about his work in Silverlight 4 with Augmented Reality. He's created an Augmented Reality Toolkit for Silverlight 4 that utilizes the webcam and adds graphics to the video that hold their perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Milroy Tracks the Roadtrip with Bing Maps and Silverlight 4 Steve Milroy talks about the Silverlight 4 application his company, Onterra Systems, developed to track the DotNetMobile in real time as Carl and Richard drove across Ameria on the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip in April, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching Kids Programming Llewellyn Falco and Lynn Langit talk about their free curriculum for teaching kids programming, involving Microsoft SmallBasic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Miller on Clojure David Miller talks to Carl and Richard about Clojure-CLR, a .NET implementation of the Clojure language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website F# Panel Live from NERD Center, Cambridge, MA While on the Road Trip, Carl and Richard recorded this panel discussion with Talbott Crowell, Rick Minerich and Richard Hale Shaw on F# at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center. The panel makes a very compelling case for adding a functional language to your toolchest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brandon Watson Live in Atlanta In the last of our Road Trip series, Brandon Watson from the Windows Phone 7 team tells Carl and Richard how his job is to delight developers, and he's doing just that! Windows Phone 7 represents a veritable gold rush for developers this year, next year, and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Podwysocki Codes the Reactive Framework We know, this was supposed to be that Atlanta road trip show. Turns out that show is on an SD card en route to New London. Meantime, enjoy this great show with Matthew Podwysocki about the Reactive Extentions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PhoneGap with Jesse MacFadyen and Filip Maj Jesse MacFadyen and Filip Maj talk to Carl and Richard about PhoneGap, an open source project for supporting rich applications on a large variety of mobile devices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Harry Live in Durham, NC Brian Harry talks about his experiences at Microsoft on the Visual Source Safe team and the TFS team, and his favorite new ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) features of Visual Studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA Mark and Karen talk with Carl and Richard about inspiring kids to greatness and fostering wonder in them. As well, Mark reflects on some of the more fun projects he's worked on, and answers the question... where does the mad genious come from? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City Ivar Jacobson comes back to .NET Rocks, this time as a special guest on the Road Trip. He talks about Microsoft's re-embrace of UML, his work on Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT), and tells a few Bill Gates stories as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells Live in Boston Chris Sells joins Carl and Richard on the Road Trip at Microsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chris is working on guidance for when to use what Microsoft Technologies in the data stack: OData, EF, RIA Services, et al. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Lhotka and Jay Schmelzer Live in Chicago Rocky and Jay talk with Carl and Richard about the Visual Studio designer experience: XAML vs Cider, as well as ruminations on Silverlight and WPF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO Kate Gregory talks about programming for Windows 7. As well, we have a discussion about the lack of real-world preparation in University for software developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Huckaby Live in Tulsa Tim Huckaby talks about his work with Interknowlogy, cancer research, fly fishing, Windows Phone 7, and the convergence of XAML platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michelle Leroux Bustamante Live in Dallas Carl and Richard catch up with MLB in Dallas. We find out what she's up to. An interesting question asked: What was the most challenging system you ever had to architect? And yes, of course she tells a joke at the end! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dustin Campbell Live in Houston Carl and Richard talk to Dustin Campbell from the Visual Studio team about his work in Language UI and Intellisense. He also talks about his experiences with Mark Miller at Developer Express, and shows off his jazz guitar chops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Griver, Beth Massi, and Tim Heuer Live in Phoenix Richard and Carl talk to Alan Griver, Beth Massi, and Tim Heuer in front of a live audience on the 5th stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip in Phoenix, AZ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Stanfield Live in Redlands, CA Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield about his historical perspective around Visual Studio .NET and how he got into the business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Hollis Live in San Diego Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis in San Diego on the third stop of the road trip. Billy always has something interesting to talk about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Fernandez Live in Los Angeles Carl and Richard talk to Dan Fernandez about Channel 9, online community, Visual Studio Express, and more on the second stop of our Road Trip! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Haack Live in Mountain View, California Phil Haack was our guest on the first Road Trip show! We talked about shipping VS2010, ASP.NET MVC, and Phil told us how he got into the business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Egan about Windows Phone 7, present and (dare we say) future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anders Hejlsberg blows our minds! Carl and Richard talk to Anders Hejlsberg about languages, LINQ internals, high-levels of abstraction, VB, and a few other goodies. Not to be missed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Zimmerman combines Facebook and Azure Jim Zimmerman talks about the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Zimmerman combines Facebook and Azure Jim Zimmerman talks about the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone 7 Carl and Richard talk to Charlie Kindel from Microsoft about building applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lino Tadros goes Old School on us. Lino Tadros of Borland and Falafel Software fame takes us back to when he worked for Anders Hejlsberg at Borland. Good stories from an old-school geek! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roman Rubin and Venkatesh Ramakrishnan Push the Limits of Silverlight. Roman Rubin and Venkatesh (Venky) Ramakrishnan talk about their experiences architecting and building large-scale Silverlight applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weyer and Rammer Program iPhones with MonoTouch Christian Weyer and Ingo Rammer from Thinktecture talk with Carl and Richard about programming iPhone applications with MonoTouch, an open source iPhone development tool based on Mono. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Brown Introduces Us to the Web Platform Installer Mark Brown talks about the Web Platform Installer, a free tool for developers from Microsoft that will sucessfully install everything your PC needs to develop web applications on the Microsoft platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Instrumenting Applications with Runtime Intelligence Carl and Richard talk to Gabriel Torok and Joe Kuemerle about what it takes to really know what's going on in your enterprise in real time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Haack Introduces MVC 2 Haack is back! This time, to announce ASP.NET Model View Controller v2.0 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp What do you get when you cross a hundered or so geeks, mountains of pizza, truckloads of energy drinks, and a mission to help the charities of the world beef up their online offerings? GiveCamp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Norwood and Daniel Wood (I know) from Quest Software, makers of Toad - data tools for Oracle. Now providing Toad Extention for Visual Studio .NET, bringing all of the Datadude features of Visual Studio to Oracle developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Frazer on Copyright, SLAs and more Brad Frazer talks to Carl and Richard about copyright law as it applies to protecting digital media, content, and software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oren Emie on Creating DSLs in Boo Oren Enie talks about creating Domain Specific Languates in Boo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Show! Carl and Richard talk to Dave Mendlen and Sam Gazitt from Microsoft about the launch event April 12-14, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas where .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 will be officially launched. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams Joel is back to talk about how small development teams can best utilize Team Foundation Server. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Pathfindier Innovation Challenge Michelle Viotti and Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA along with Marc Mercuri from Microsoft talk to Carl and Richard about their joint project, the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge in which .NET developers can help NASA make sense of the mountains of data coming back from Mars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Toub on .NET 4.0 Concurrency Features Stephen Toub talks to the boys about the new concurrency features in .NET 4.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bret Piatt and Josh Odom RackSpace Clouds Bret Piatt and Josh Odom from Rackspace talk about their company's offerings for hosting in the cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Jacobs on Azure AppFabric Ron Jacobs talks to Carl and Richard about the Windows Azure platform AppFabric, which provides secure connectivity as a service to help developers bridge cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. Rob Walling and Mike Taber talk about the Micropeneur Academy, a web-based community with the mission to assist one-man tech companies in reaching their goals. Membership is not free, but it's not expensive either. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Brown and Ed Pinto on WCF 4.0 Richard and Carl talk to Kent Brown and Ed Pinto about the new features of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) 4.0, which will be released April 12, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Juval Löwy Juval is back to talk to Carl and Richard. They get to the bottom of his "Every Object Should be a WCF Service" argument, and get his insights into the current state of .NET development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website oData Carl and Richard get the word on oData from Brad Abrams, Bob Dimpsey and Lance Olson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My .NET Story Carl and Richard pick the winner for the My .NET Story contest held by Mirosoft. Contestants submitted their projects and were judged by a panel of experts. Includes short interviews with the finalists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Olson Digs into the CLR 4.0 What's new in the CLR? Jason Olson goes through some of the most important new features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process Carl and Richard talk to the father of UML and the Unified Process, Ivar Jacobson. He recently put forth the Essential Unified Process (EssUp). Not to be missed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Stephen Walther talks about the latest version (4) of ASP.NET AJAX and all the associated technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0 Julie is back to talk about the improvements to the Entity Framework in version 4.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Learned on TFS Nuts and Bolts Michael Learned from Microsoft Premier Field Engineering dives deep into Team Foundation Server. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure George Huey and Wade Wegner from Microsoft talk to Carl and Richard about George's creation, the SQL Azure Migration Wizard, a free tool that will save you countless hours when migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter to scratch the surface of the new features in ASP.NET 4.0 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! Scott Stanfield talks about how his company Vertigo developes Silverlight streaming video controller/viewer solutions for the likes of Monday Night Football and The Olympics. Maybe you've heard of them? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lawrence on Fiddler Eric Lawrence from Microsoft talks about Fiddler, a debugging proxy for HTTP traffic that you can use in your own applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corey Haines on Software Craftsmanship Corey Haines shares his ideas on the Software Craftsmanship movement: training, apprenticeship, guidance, and collaboration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Dirolf is SQL Free with MungoDB MungoDB is a non-relational database. For most of us working with SQL Server, using a non-relational database is a strange idea. Michael Dirolf makes the case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from Øredev 2009 Carl and Richard interview today's luminaries live on stage at Øredev in Malmo, Sweden November 4th and 5th, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Litwin on SQL Reporting Services Carl and Richard caught up with Paul Litwin to talk about Reporting Services. Recorded live at DevConnections in Las Vegas last month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Codeplex Foundation Carl and Richard talk to Sam Ramji and Bill Staples about the Codeplex Foundation, which provides a framework to facilitate the participation of corporate software developers in open source projects communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weyer and Baier on WIF Christian Weyer and Dominick Baier talk about real world Windows Identity Foundation. This show wraps up our three-part series on WIF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from PDC, it's My .NET Story! Carl and Richard interview seven contestants in the My .NET Story contest. Enter a story about your .NET application online at www.mydotnetstory.com. The winner gets either a trip to the Galopagos Islands or a Smart Car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowen and Cummings on XNA Carl and Richard talk to Chris Bowen of Microsoft and Michael Cummings of Magenic on using XNA to develop games and applications for the PC, XBox and Zune. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's The 500th Freakin Show! I know! We can't believe it either. We went back over the last 100 shows and cherry picked a few of our favorite segments. Thank you for your continued support! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework Lev Novik talks to Carl and Richard about the Sync Framework, a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services, and devices with support for any data type, any data store, any transfer protocol, and any network topology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Forte in The Netherlands Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte back to the show, this time in front of a small audience at SDC in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The discussion focuses on living as a developer in the modern digital world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria Recorded in front of a live audience at DevReach Bulgaria, Carl and Richard talk to Christian Weyer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Hadi Hariri about Silverlight, Data Transports, and whatever else was on their minds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF Vittorio Bertocci goes over Windows Identity Foundation (Geneva) from a developer's perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells in on DataDude Carl and Richard catch up with Chris Sells at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria a couple weeks ago. Chris is all about Data Dude, the Visual Studio edition for Database Professionals. Great show on all counts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Seven on Visual Studio 2010 Doug Seven talks to the boys about Visual Studio 2010. In particular, pricing, features, and the launch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App Aaron Skonnard talks about his experiences building a real application in the cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francesco Balena on VB to .NET Migration Francesco Balena talks about his groundbreaking work in migrating VB6 applications to VB.NET Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donald Farmer on Gemini Carl and Richard talk to Donald Farmer about Project Gemini, which brings Analysis Services to Excel in a very elegant way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI Shawn Wildermuth talks about the importance and significance of declarative User Interfaces in the context of WPF and Silverlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller and Billy Hollis on UI Mark Miller and Billy Hollis go head to head on User Interface. The conversation ranges from WPF and Silverlight to Visual Studio and Blend to whatever else they felt like talking about... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dana Groff and Yossi Levanoni Talk STM Software Transactional Memory (shipping as part of .NET 4.0) represents the next generation in writing code that utilizes multiple cores. The best part is, the code gets much more simple! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michelle Leroux Bustamante on Web Security MLB is back to talk to Carl and Richard about the Claims-Based Security Model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Borg on All Things Team System Steven Borg talks about his experiences delivering solutions with Microsoft Team System, with a special focus on automated builds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services This conversation with Kent Tegels starts with SSIS and goes from there, like most good .NET Rocks! shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leon Gersing is Having a Love Affair with Ruby! Carl and Richard talk to Leon Gersing about his love afair with Ruby, which he so elequently spoke of as an audience member at DevLink in Nashville (show #476). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Woodward on Team System Today's show is a previously recorded conversation with Martin Woodward about Team System. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft battles HIV! Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Carlson, Bob Davidson, David Heckerman, and Carl Kadie from Microsoft Research about their efforts to find vaccines for HIV using Microsoft technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET! Ben Hall and Jeff McWherter talk with Carl and Richard about testing ASP.NET applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! John Petersen talks about software patents, End User License Agreements, contracts, and other pains in the backside that we'd rather not think about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Menegay uses TFS for ALM! Chris Menegay is back to talk about using Team Foundation Server for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex? Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. Several .NET celebrities in the audience also chimed in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration James Kovacs is back to talk about how the idea of Convention over Configuration has transformed the way we think about software development, leading to better usability and productivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Gross: Death of the Speaker? Christian Gross talks about the nascent death of the professional speaker. What is happening to the big technical conferences? How does that fare for the pro speaker? Are the glory days over? Does anyone care? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk on the State of Team System Joel Semeniuk is back to catch us up on Visual Studio Team System. Problems solved and features yet to come. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Evans on IT for Developers Steve Evans talks to Richard and Carl about what developers need to know on the IT side of technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vishwas Lele on Real-World Azure Vishwas is back to talk about his experiences programming for Microsoft Windows Azure. Vishwas did a port of the famous DinnerNow website using the Azure cloud computing platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nate Kohari on the Zen of Project Management! Carl and Richard talk to Nate Kohari about lean project management, and Zen, a lean project management tool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Cunningham on Touch Technology Brad Cunningham talks about developing touch-based applications, and the various technologies manufacturers are using for touch-based applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Howes Sets Us Straight on iPhone Dev! Alert listener and iPhone developer Glenn Howes gives us the real story on iPhone development from a different perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kiciman and Friedman Bring AjaxView to Studio! Emre Kiciman and Mark Friedman talk about bringing AjaxView to Visual Studio. Emre previously talked about AjaxView on .NET Rocks when it was a Microsoft Research project to enable developers to profile the behavior of JavaScript on the browser. Since then, AjaxView has been developed as the Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions. Mark as part of the Studio team focused on making AjaxView work in Studio. The conversation not only digs into what AjaxView can do for a developer, bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ananth B on Brahma! Ananth B talks about Brahma, an open-source library written for the .NET 3.5 framework (in C# 3.0), to provide high level access to parallel streaming computations on a variety of processors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roman Schindlauer on Complex Events Carl and Richard talk to Roman Schindlauer on Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Microsoft's Platform for CEP using SQL Server. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms Aaron Erickson talks with Carl and Richard about the various 7 anti-patterns of the tech consulting business. His book is a veritable survival guide for consultants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes on Workflow 4.0 Brian Noyes talks about Workflow Foundation 4.0 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Stubbs on Silverlight in Sharepoint Pual Stubbs from Microsoft talks about the marriage of Silverlight and Sharepoint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Forte on Data Access Options Forte is back talking about all the options .NET developers have for data access, and gives some guidelines as to when to use what. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model Scott Ambler from IBM talks about the Agile Process Maturity Model, which defines three levels of Agile methodology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Stiefel on Cloud Computing Michael Stiefel is back to talk about the realities of Cloud Computing including offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Azure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! Carl and Richard talked to Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack live on stage at the Norweigian Developer's Conference last week about new and cool toys and technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sahil Malik's Sharepoint Checklist Sahil Malik tells us what every developer should know about Sharepoint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Diller and Daniel Crenna on TweetSharp TweetSharp is a .NET library for developing Twitter applications. Yeah, that's what I thought too until we talked to these guys! You'll want it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Randal on Developers and Databases We catch up with Paul Randal, previously with the Microsoft SQL Server team, about all the little details of SQL Server all developers should know. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rory does iPhones! Rory Blyth comes back to .NET Rocks! with stories of a .NET developer turned iPhone developer. Learn how the other half lives! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Vogel uses Code Generation Peter Vogel talks about code generation pros, cons, technologies, and strategies from Visual Studio to T4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lee Builds Great Demos and WF2WPF Eric Lee from Microsoft talks about his experiences developing live demos for the likes of Steve Ballmer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4 Daniel Simmons is back this time to talk about the new features of ADO.NET Entity Framework version 4. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicholas Blumhardt on Autofac The .NET dudes talk to Nicholas Blumhardt about Autofac, an IoC container that uses lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to create components. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Axum! Carl and Richard talk to Nickolas Gustafsson and Josh Phillips about Axum, a new language developed specifically for parallelism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro Miguel Castro shares his list of pet peeves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter DeBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases Peter and Adam talk about creating good SQL Server databases. We figured it was about time we did a good old fashioned data show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Turnure and Johanna White are Ramping Up! Doug Turnure and Johanna White talk about the Ramp Up, an online program that assists users in learning Microsoft technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kenn Scribner on REST Carl and Richard talk to Kenn Scribner about REST, its origins and intended uses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward about Sun being bought by Oracle, and other musings in the Java space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++! Attack of the Canadians!! In this show Kate gets hardcore, talking about C++, VC10, the Vista Bridge, and a few other technical gems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dino Esposito Gets Architectural! Dino Esposito is back to share his latest thoughts about architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3.0 Shawn Wildermuth talks about the new features in Silverlight 3.0. Shawn brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. Lots of great tips! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow Carl and Richard talk with Jeff Atwood about Stack Overflow and effective problem solving solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonas Follesø on UI Framework Choices Jonas Follesø of Norway talks to Carl and Richard about which User Interface we chose for our applications. ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight 3, WPF, Windows Forms) and his insights into these technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Hynds on why projects fail Patrick Hynds (our first guest) is back to talk about his experiences and research on why software projects fail. New statistics show that even with agile methodologies such as Test-Driven-Development, most software projects still fail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Beauchemin Gets Spatial in SQL Server 2008! Bob Beauchemin talks to Carl and Richard about spatial data types in SQL Server 2008, and the types of applications that lend themselves well to it. He also discusses the similarities and differences of the spatial data support in Virtual Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More! Carl and Richard talk with Kathleen Dollard about MEF, the future of development, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Kiely on AJAX at DevConnections! Recorded live at DevConnections Orlando 2009, Don Kiely is back to talk about AJAX old and new (ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is just out), and a few other things on his mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arun Kishan on The Windows Kernel Carl and Richard talk to Arun Kishan about all things Windows. The OS kernel is a mystery to most. This is a laid back discussion about Windows from a developers point of view. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Haack on ASP.NET MVC RTM!! There's some acronym soup for ya! Phil talks about the differences in the MVP and MVC patterns, some other patterns emerging out of MVP, and of course the ASP.NET MVC Framework, recently released to manufacturing by Microsoft! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Russ Fustino Russ Fustino is back in the limelight with a new TV show "It's All About The Tools" He talks about his experiences on the road, as one of the busiest evangelists at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth Jim Duffy offers up the latest and greatest about Virtual Earth. You may be surprised about what you can do with it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth Jim Duffy offers up the latest and greatest about Virtual Earth. You may be surprised about what you can do with it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! Brad Abrams and Nikhil Kothari are back to fill us in on what was announced and discussed at Mix 2009! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Foord Talks IronPython Michael Foord talks with the .NET Dudes about IronPython and Python. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Nash Talks IE8 and Windows 7! Carl and Richard talk to Mike Nash from the Windows Platform Strategy group about IE8, Windows 7, and everything else that goes on day to day in the life of a Corporate VP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tess Ferrandez on Debugging Carl and Richard talk to Tess Ferrandez about her experiences as an escalation engineer at Microsoft, focusing on debugging and memory management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance! Rob Boucher talks about a very helpful (and free!) application architecture guide contributed to by the who's who in the .NET Community, both inside and outside of Microsoft. You'll pick up some great tips. Writers: J.D. Meier (Project Lead), Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr., Akshay Bogawat, Praveen Rangarajan (Test), and Dennis Rea (Edit). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance! Rob Boucher talks about a very helpful (and free!) application architecture guide contributed to by the who's who in the .NET Community, both inside and outside of Microsoft. You'll pick up some great tips. Writers: J.D. Meier (Project Lead), Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr., Akshay Bogawat, Praveen Rangarajan (Test), and Dennis Rea (Edit). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Zuckett on the Customer Care Framework Lee Zuckett from Microsoft talks about the Microsoft Customer Care Framework, which helps companies create valuable customer relationships by improving the customer experience across all interaction channels -phone, e-mail, chat, and web-bringing together disparate information from different applications into one view, without having to re-enter the same information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Zuckett on the Customer Care Framework Lee Zuckett from Microsoft talks about the Microsoft Customer Care Framework, which helps companies create valuable customer relationships by improving the customer experience across all interaction channels -phone, e-mail, chat, and web-bringing together disparate information from different applications into one view, without having to re-enter the same information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Brust Talks BI Andrew is back to talk about the state of Business Intelligence technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Brust Talks BI Andrew is back to talk about the state of Business Intelligence technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Pablo Castro Pablo Castro brings us up to date on ADO.NET Data Services, offline data, REST services, cloud computing, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Pablo Castro Pablo Castro brings us up to date on ADO.NET Data Services, offline data, REST services, cloud computing, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Crockford Doug Crockford talks about Javascript, JSON and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Crockford Doug Crockford talks about Javascript, JSON and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Derik Whittaker on nHibernate Carl and Richard talk to Derik Whittaker about some of the supporting tools for nHibernate, such as FluentNHibernate, a DSL for nHibernate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Derik Whittaker on nHibernate Carl and Richard talk to Derik Whittaker about some of the supporting tools for nHibernate, such as FluentNHibernate, a DSL for nHibernate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Stevens on Community 2.0 Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens about his involvement with the .NET community, and the wider developer community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Stevens on Community 2.0 Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens about his involvement with the .NET community, and the wider developer community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes on the State of WPF and More The always-thoughtful Brian Noyes shares his thoughts on the state of WPF, Silverlight, WF, and WCF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Noyes on the State of WPF and More The always-thoughtful Brian Noyes shares his thoughts on the state of WPF, Silverlight, WF, and WCF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coding for Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek Dan and Brian talk about the fun projects they've created for their Coding for Fun book, the blog, the website, and all that goes with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coding for Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek Dan and Brian talk about the fun projects they've created for their Coding for Fun book, the blog, the website, and all that goes with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Rocky Lhotka Carl and Richard talk to Rocky about his new book as well as his thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, Windows Home Server, and Windows 7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Rocky Lhotka Carl and Richard talk to Rocky about his new book as well as his thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, Windows Home Server, and Windows 7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bryan Wilhite Speaks! Bryan Wilhite talks about his open-source projects, and his experiences in the trenches as a .NET developer. Great stories! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bryan Wilhite Speaks! Bryan Wilhite talks about his open-source projects, and his experiences in the trenches as a .NET developer. Great stories! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aslam Khan talks Design Aslam Khan tells us his thoughts on good software design, focusing on the domain, resisting prototypes and big design up front. He also shares his thoughts about Software as a Service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aslam Khan talks Design Aslam Khan tells us his thoughts on good software design, focusing on the domain, resisting prototypes and big design up front. He also shares his thoughts about Software as a Service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interviews from Codemash 2009 Carl and Richard interview Joe Fiorini, Jonathan Penn, Josh Walsh, and Andrew Kavanaugh about winning the 2008 Rails Rumble contest; then Chris Marinos and Mike Woelmer about their Paint Wars XNA game; and finally Corey Haines about his Pair Programming Tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interviews from Codemash 2009 Carl and Richard interview Joe Fiorini, Jonathan Penn, Josh Walsh, and Andrew Kavanaugh about winning the 2008 Rails Rumble contest; then Chris Marinos and Mike Woelmer about their Paint Wars XNA game; and finally Corey Haines about his Pair Programming Tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Dunn Interviews at TechEd Europe 2008 Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard to review some of the interviews he did at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain in November, 2008. On board are Bob Beauchemin, John Flanders, Pat Helland, Richard Pawson, and Jay Roxe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Dunn Interviews at TechEd Europe 2008 Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard to review some of the interviews he did at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain in November, 2008. On board are Bob Beauchemin, John Flanders, Pat Helland, Richard Pawson, and Jay Roxe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from CodeMash 2009! Carl and Richard talk to an esteemed panel of experts about Rich Internet Applications, focusing on web-based apps at CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, OH. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from CodeMash 2009! Carl and Richard talk to an esteemed panel of experts about Rich Internet Applications, focusing on web-based apps at CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, OH. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ward Bell on ORMs. Ward Bell offers his opinion of Object Relational Mappers, the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and Silverlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ward Bell on ORMs. Ward Bell offers his opinion of Object Relational Mappers, the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and Silverlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uncle Bob at Oredev Carl and Richard catch up with Bob Martin at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Topics range from debugging to software quality. Great show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uncle Bob at Oredev Carl and Richard catch up with Bob Martin at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Topics range from debugging to software quality. Great show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Hodges on Delphi.NET Carl and Richard talk to Nick Hodges about Delphi.NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Hodges on Delphi.NET Carl and Richard talk to Nick Hodges about Delphi.NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Whittaker Takes Testing Seriously James Whittaker brings a practical approach to testing, and his viewpoint may surprise you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward at Oredev Ted Neward talk to Richard and Carl about Scala and other languages on stage at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Oren Eine was in the audience and got a good question in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Scott Bellware Carl and Richard sit down with Scott Bellware at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cangialosi and Mariani on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Anthony Cangialosi and Rico Mariani talk with Richard and Carl about Visual Studio Extensibility and the VS Ecosystem, and a little bit about IdeaBlade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of Silverlight witih Tim Heuer Tim Heuer from the Silverlight team at Microsoft talks to Carl and Richard about the current state of Silverlight, and offers his perspective on using Silverlight among other things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Aiken on Azure David Aiken is back, this time to lay down the skinny on Azure. What can you do with it? What doesn't it do? All this and more! Now how much would you pay??? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Oren Eini Oren Eini spoke to Carl and Richard at 0redev in Malmo, Sweden in November about the latest version of Rhino Mocks, Oren's mocking framework. Oren also talks about mocking in General. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oslo is Love with Chris Sells Chris Sells is here to explain Oslo for real. Don and Doug couldn't really dig deep into Oslo before the PDC, but now that it has been announced, Chris is here to splain it to everyone in clear English. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show 400! Carl and Richard look back on the last year joined by a cast of former guests and conference speakers in the hotel bar at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal while at DevTeach. WARNING: Unbleeped F-Bombs! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The HP TouchSmart! Carl and Richard talk to Irwin Kwan, PM on TouchSmart team at Hewlett-Packard; Oluf Nissen, Dev on the TouchSmart team; Muffi Ghadiali, marketing for HP Touchsmart Software; and Matt Whitlock from Capable Networks, developer of www.touchsmartcommunity.com, a site dedicated to the TouchSmart community. HP has just released a set of development guidelines for the TouchSmart. Check it out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Block on MEF Glenn Block talk to Carl and Richard about Microsoft MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), which provides scalable extensibility for any application. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Feathers talks Legacy Code Carl and Richard talk to Michael Feathers about how to bring legacy code (that which has no testing code coverage) into the 21st century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Web Development Panel Recorded live at Devreach in Sofia, Bulgaria, this is a discussion with Miguel Castro, Todd Anglin, Shawn Wildermuth, and Steven Smith. Mark Dunn filled in for Richard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller on UX Live at DevConnections Vegas Mark Miller has more to say about what makes for good User Interface and User Experience. Recorded live in front of an audience at DevConnections in Last Vegas, NV November 12th, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Costall and McMahon on Community in Britain Richard Costall and Dave McMahon join the boys for a discussion centering on their efforts to build community in Great Britain and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Jacobs on C# 4.0 Ron Jacobs finally on .NET Rocks! Ron talks with Richard and Carl about architecture, C# 4.0, his podcasts, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Hayden on the Unity Framework David Hayden talks to Carl and Richard about the Microsoft Unity Framework Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Wagner on Advanced C# Carl and Richard talk to Bill Wagner about the more advanced features of C# 3.0 and how they can be used to do some amazing things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YSlow! Steve Souders finds Website Bottlenecks Carl and Richard talk to Steven Souders, creator of YSlow, an analysis tool for finding website bottlenecks on the client side of the equation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surface! Carl and Richard talk to Robert Levy and Doug Kramer at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles right after they unveiled the Microsoft Surface to the Microsoft developer community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) on Being a Professional! Bob Martin talks about how to achieve Clean Code, which also happens to be the name of his famous book on software development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET for Silverlight! Rocky is back to talk about his acclaimed CSLA.NET framework which was just released for Silverlight, allowing you to write CSLA clients in the browser... even running on a Mac! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interknowlogy Scratches the Surface! Dan Hanan and Kevin Kennedy from Interknowlogy talk about their experiences working with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight. Interknowlogy is run by Tim Huckaby, a long-time guest and friend of .NET Rocks! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Box and Doug Purdy on Oslo! Richard and Carl talk with Don Box and Doug Purdy about Microsoft code-name Oslo, a nascent set of developer tools and technologies that promise to make development much easier than it is today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Tiffany on Windows Mobile Rob Tiffany stops by to talk about the lastest in Windows Mobile technology. Carl managed to squeeze a hint out of him about what's next for Windows Mobility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Skeet on C# 3.0 Carl and Richard talk to author and developer Jon Skeet about his work with C# and Java at Google and elsewhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Michele Leroux Bustamante Michele Leroux Bustamante talks to Carl and Richard for the first time since she had her first kid! The topic is federated identity services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frans Bouma on ORM! Carl and Richard talk to Frans Bouma about his thoughts on the ORM revolution, his products, and the Entity Framework. Great stuff! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight 2.0 Carl and Richard catch up with Rev. Billy (just kidding, Billy) to talk about the state of WPF and Silverlight 2.0. Billy always has great stories from the field, and real-world insight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Isard on Dryad Richard and Carl talk to Michael Isard about Dryad, a grid computing and clustering project from Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher on F# Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher about their work with F# and separate truth from fiction about functional languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Charles Petzold Carl and guest co-host Mark Dunn talk with Charles Petzold about the life of the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. Charles talks about his book, "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.", and also discusses writing books, blogs, and online media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Teixeira on Parallelism Carl and Richard talk to Steve Teixeira, Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Development Tools team within Developer Division's Parallel Computing Platform organzation at Microsoft. The conversation is mostly around the future of parallel computing highlighting offerings that Microsoft is currently working on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism While at TechEd 2008 in Orlando Carl and Richard recorded this interview with Glenn Block from Microsoft and Brian Noyes from iDesign about the Prism project, formally named Composite Application Guidance, which promises to simplify and organize WPF development projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Randell and Woodward on TFS 2008 and Beyond! Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talk about Team Foundation Server 2008, and all the goodness within. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from devLink 2008! Carl and Richard break out the microphone during Karaoke night (don't worry) at the DoubleTree bar in Murphreesboro, TN, to talk to staff and attendees of the devLink Technical Conference (August 22-23). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thiago Silva on Reporting Services for SQL2008 Carl and Richard talk to Thiago Silva about the new features of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soma! Richard and Carl talk to Microsoft Executive S. Somasegar about his experiences at Microsoft from his early days working on systems like OS/2, NT, Windows 2000 to overseeing the Developer Division of Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Simmons and Stephen Forte on the EF Advisory Council Dan Simmons is back with Stephen Forte, a member of the EF Advisory Council, a group of outsiders who were brought in to help shape future direction for the EF. You might be surprised at who else was on the council, and what they are thinking about for the next version. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Smith on the Transition to Entrepeneur Steven Smith talk with Carl and Mark Dunn about changing careers from software developer to small business owner. All three have made the jump and share their experiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications! Udi Dahan is back to talk to the guys about scaling web applications. This is an area of expertise for Richard as well as Udi, so you know you'll get your money's worth out of this one! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Swedin Looks Back in Time Mark Dunn joins Carl for this fun look back at the history of computers with Eric Swedin, author of Computers: The Life Story of a Technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Simmons on Entity Framework v1! Dan Simmons is back this time to announce the release of the Entity Framework, and to answer some questions about it's architecture and use. Version 1 will ship around August 11th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stacy Harris Does Home Automation! Charles Stacy Harris talks about technologies used to automate his home using .NET interfaces. Geek out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory Develops in C++ for Vista! Carl and Richard catch up with Kate Gregory to talk Vista, VB, C++, and her latest thoughts and experiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Delin on SOX Compliance Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Delin about why developers should care about the Sarbanes Oxley Act and why a compliance plan is in your best interest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan and Kathleen on Kids and Computing Dan Appleman and Kathleen Dollard have a lot to say about kids: computing, and programming. This is a great show for parents or anyone who works with kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic Data Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime, which provides scaffolding and dynamic data services to developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Stanfield on Deep Zoom and PhotoSynth! Scott Stanfield talks about Deep Zoom, PhotoSynth, his Mix keynote, and all the cool toys he gets to play with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby! John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby! John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future of .NET Panel at DevTeach Toronto Carl and Richard host a panel comprised of Oren Eine, Ted Neward, and Scott Belware at the DevTeach conference in Toronto. What started out as a discussion about the future turned into a discussion about Microsoft's development tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Communities at Dallas TechFest Carl and Richard talk with three community leaders in Dallas about building communities, and specifically how you can directly benefit from participating locally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dmitri Ossipov on Enterprise Service Bus Carl and Richard talk to Dmitri Ossipov from Microsoft about ESB architecture and specifically Biztalk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Richter on the Direction of Hardware Carl and Richard welcome back Jeffrey Richter to the show. Jeff is a consultant for Microsoft with a unique perspective on the evolution of Windows and PC hardware. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Wahlin on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF Dan Wahlin chats with Carl and Richard in front of a live audience at DevConnections in Orlando about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 64-Bit with Brian Peek Carl and Richard talk with Brian Peek about the latest and greatest in 64-bit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Abrams and Omar Khan Announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS2008 SP1 Brad Abrams and Omar Khan from Microsoft officially announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and detail all the new features and improvements! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Haack on Model View Controller Phil Haack from Microsoft catches us up on his latest goings-on in The Collective, and talks about the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller on the Science of Good UI Good user interface design can be done by sticking to some good rules and avoiding common mistakes. You don't need to be a latte-sippin tattoo-wearin macbook-carrying designer to create user interfaces that work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA! Carl and Richard talk SOA with Jim Webber, who has a lot to say on the subject. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Mercuri Unveils RoboChamps! Marc Mercuri is back to announce a great new website and program for developers on Microsoft Robotics Studio, RoboChamps! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Zuck on the Politics of OOXML Jonathan Zuck from ACT (Association for Competitive Technology) is back to talk about OOXML (Open Office XML), the EU vs. Microsoft, and other political issues that impact you as a software developer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing for Second Life Carl and Richard talk to Chris Hart, Kyle G, and Zain Naboulsi about developing software for Second Life, and how the world of .NET intersects with the virtual world of SL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's the ALT.NET Show! Jeremy Miller and David Laribee discuss their work with ALT.NET, a "self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Neward on the New Language Renaissance Ted Neward is back to tell us his ideas around the recent downpour of language technology. He also answers a few questions left over from Carl's interview of his Java-developer brother, Jay Franklin, in show #326. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Toub on Concurrency - Live in NYC! Stephen Toub from Microsoft talks about new tools coming forth for dealing with concurrency and asynchronous programming. This was recorded live in front of an audience at the MS Financial Services Developer Conference in NYC last month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET 3.5 Rocky is back on .NET Rocks! to talk about the latest iteration of his CSLA.NET Application Framework, as well as to talk about some .NET technologies that are no longer as necessary as they once were. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin McNeish on DSLs and Software Factories Carl and Richard talk to Kevin McNeish about Domain Specific Languages (DSL), Software Factories, and the like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel Semeniuk on the State of Team System Joel Semeniuk stops by to talk about problem solving with Team System and Team Foundation Server, and to give us the skinny on the features of Team System 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Goodyear on Instant Messaging APIs Jonathan Goodyear tells us about his work with Instant Messaging protocols, and his soon to be released toolkit for .NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Franklin is a Java Programmer! Brother Jay makes his debut on .NET Rocks! with stories of his experiences as a Java developer from the early days in VB class through MUMPS and landing finally in Java land. Also, be listening for a special musical performance at the end of the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Dorrans revisits Security with OpenID and Cardspace Barry Dorrans has a good time with Carl and Richard talking about his history in the business and his passion for OpenID and Information Cards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emre Kiciman on AjaxView Carl and Richard talk to Emre Kiciman about AjaxView, a project from Microsoft Research to analyze the performance of web applications from the client side. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke Carl talks about Active Reports and other great new tools on the way from the boys at Datadynamics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Forte on Remote/Distributed Teams Stephen Forte is back, this time talking about working with distributed teams. He shares his valuable experiences and insights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Tim Huckaby Tim is back to talk about things like Office development, the Microsoft/Yahoo story, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Bristowe on Advancing Your Career John Bristowe from Microsoft Canada talks about a new initiative from Microsoft to help .NET developers further their career. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework Julie Lerman calls in to tell us about her experiences with the Entity Framework. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Dr. Neil Roodyn Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Neil about Mix, Live Services, WPF, Silverlight, Grava, and other cool technology he's been involved with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus Carl and Richard talk with Christain Weyer about the features functionality of the new Microsoft Internet Service Bus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie on Mix and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery Carl and Richard talk with Scott Guthrie about what to expect this year at Mix. Following that interview, the boys talk with Matthew Manela about the MSDN Code Gallery. Matthew also discusses his experiences starting at Microsoft as an intern and working his way up the food chain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl and Rory Catch Up Carl and Rory catch up after Rory's long haitus. Topics include Smartphone programming, responding to an article blasting OOP, and much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking with Robert Hurlbut Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Smart Clients with Rob Barker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanging out with Bernard Wong Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Larson on SQL Reporting Services Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Server Technology Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billy Hollis digs into smart client architecture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up with Julie Lerman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Pollack, Ted Neward, and Don Box on Java, .NET, and the future Dare we say the future? This show was originally intended to be a discussion about Java and Spring.NET with Mark Pollack. Then Ted was invited, and he invited Don. The result is an almost two hour discussion of Java and .NET. This is definitely going to be a classic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Pollack, Ted Neward, and Don Box on Java, .NET, and the future Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory on C+++, VB.NET, and VSTO Kate Gregory talks to Carl (in this retro interview-only show) about the new C++, why she prefers VB.NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England! This is the first of our attempt to make .NET Rocks! more geeky and less freaky! We hope you like it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Gregory on C+++, VB.NET, and VSTO Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Roxe Rocks! Microsoft Product Manager for Visual Basic.NET, Jay Roxe drops by to talk about his work on the .NET Framework including System.Object, System.String, and System.Text.StringBuilder. In the second half he talks about VB.NET 2005, about the decisions Microsoft made regarding features and ship dates, and about how he thinks VB.NET 2005 will go a long way toward making .NET accessible to the masses of business programmers worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Roxe Rocks! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juval L?wy on .NET 2.0 Juval L?wy joins Carl, Rory, and the gang this week for a romp through .NET 2.0 in all its glory. Juval talks about serialization now and in 2.0, the new System.Transaction namespace and how cool it really is, putting System.EnterpriseServices in perspective, some quick lip service to generics (although he discussed that in show #34), and a little criticism of the new Visual Studio 2005. Thom Robbins joins us in the second half to talk about his recent CodeCamp event, and the New England di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juval L?wy on .NET 2.0 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Whidbey Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Whidbey Show We try to have representatives from Microsoft on the show every once in a while to talk about what's happening in Redmond. This week we had four program managers for the Evangelism team: Scott Burmester, Steve Cellini, Carter Maslan, and Jeff Sandquist. The topic? Whidbey! We get a check up on the progress of the next version of .NET. We talked at length about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, and the efforts to reach application developers who don't necessarily spend time i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells Checks In .NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall makes the two hours fly by. Of course you get the mail, news of the week, Weird Wide Webb, and Ask ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells Checks In Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fritz Onion on ASP.NET Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0. Among other accomplishments, Fritz is the author of the best-selling Essential ASP.NET published by Addison Wesley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fritz Onion on ASP.NET Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Hale Shaw Speaks! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Hale Shaw Speaks! Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power. Mail, News, New music from Rory Blyth, Weird Wide Webb, and Richard the Toy Boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Stagner Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great talk with a very talented developer turned evangelist who keeps it real every day. Also, Mail, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Stagner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller on Tool Development Mark Miller talks about his experiences developing for Delphi, developing the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show, and his masterpiece, CodeRush. Mark is a big advocate of good design. He talks about plug-in architecture, another area of strong expertise, making the case for using plug-ins in everyday software. He also talks about Programmer Ergonomics- keeping fit in a sedentary job, his ideas about the future of software development interfaces, and other ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Miller on Tool Development Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Wecker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Wecker This weeks show is an interesting conversation with Dave Wecker, a brilliant (we think) architect in the Mobile Platforms Division who is constantly looking for the next thing in mobility, and how to make the mobile platforms better. The conversation spans from his experiences with speech recognition systems, the Tablet PC, microphone arrays, and neural networks to toys, home automation, books, and toys. Did we mention toys? Dave is a Toy Boy like us! It's people like Dave that make Micros ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing with Least Privilege - Don Kiely Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing with Least Privilege - Don Kiely Well-known author, developer, and speaker Don Kiely tells us why it's important to develop software (and do everything else on your PC) running as a non-admin. He offers some advice on what the pitfalls and challenges are as well as the benefits. It's a new world, and the days of running as administrator are over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Petzold on Charles Petzold! Charles Petzold talks with Carl and Rory about his books including Programming Windows; Code; and his .NET books, his love of computer and math history, his exploits with early electronic music, and tells some stories from the old days (at the prodding of old friend, Richard Hale Shaw, who was listening to the live stream at the time). This is a great discussion with a great man. Charles has a way of making complex concepts easy to understand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Petzold on Charles Petzold! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DotNetNuke! A conversation with Shaun Walker and Jim Duffy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DotNetNuke! A conversation with Shaun Walker and Jim Duffy DotNetNuke is a free ASP.NET based content management system with a huge installbase and support community. Shaun Walker is it's creator, and Jim Duffy is probably its biggest evangelist. This is a great laid-back show in which you'll learn all about DotNetNuke. By the end of the show you'll be rushing off to download it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miguel de Icaza talks Mono! Noted developer Miguel de Icaza talks about the Mono project. Ever wanted to run your .NET applications on Linux or a Mac, check out this show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miguel de Icaza talks Mono! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server Kimberly Tripp offers critical insights into SQL Server 2000 addressing Indexing, optimizing procedural code, the nightmare of row-based operations, and more. This show is 2.5 hours long! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The CLR Today and Tomorrow with Jeff Richter Jeff Richter talks about the 1.1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) and gives a sneak peak at what's coming in the Orcas CLR. Also, News of the week and Rory's Top 10 reasons why C# is better than VB.NET ;-) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website