The Thirsty Developer - Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This week we are please to bring you an interview with Scott Seely (@sseely), who works as a developer / architect at Myspace. We talk with Scott about some of the advanced features of WCF and where services are headed in the future.
Show notes
”Blind search” comparison tool that Scott Mentioned
Scott's recent Book: Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5
Internet Identity Workshop Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD069.mp3
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This week we are please to bring you an interview with Andy Theimer (@atheimer), who works for the startup company Lansare and on a side project called Recipe Bridge that aggregates content from across the internet.
Show notes
Milwaukee’s Technology Innovation Center
Microsoft Bizspark for startups
Sitemaps definition
Bing Webmaster Tools
RecipeBook XML
Microformats hRecipe Definition
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD068.mp3
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This week we are please to bring you an interview with Doc List. We talk with Doc about Open Spaces and applying those principles to the corporate environment.
Show notes
Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
Larry’s blog post on applying Open Spaces at work
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD067.mp3
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This week we are please to bring you an interview with Dan Nawara (@dnawara) a front end designer about the HAML and SASS technologies. The first part of the interview was recorded at Bombacigno's J & C Inn in Chicago, IL; one of Dan’s favorite restaurants (until we got kicked out).
Show notes
Official HAML Site
nHAML (.NET version of HAML)
SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Tenplate (Dan’s framework) source code on Github
The HAML Wikipedia page has an HTML / HAML Example
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD066.mp3
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This week we are please to bring you an interview with Derik Whittaker. Derik talks with us about the SOLID principles and other coding practices.
Show notes
Dimecasts – Derik (and his friends) series of screencasts
Three of Derik’s favorite tools: Resharper, Reflector and SQL Prompt
Scott Hanselman’s interview with Uncle Bob on SOLID
Uncle Bob on Stackoverflow Podcast (including apology)
Original Whitepaper on SOILD
Ted Patison’s Programming Distributed Applications With Com & Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft Research Code Contracts
IOC Containers: StructureMap, Ninject, Spring.NET and Unity
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD065.mp3
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Note
The show was updated after publishing due to a problem with the show notes. Uncle’s Bob’s PDF of his original whitepaper was the original link (now a link to a blog article). The PDF was incorrectly picked up instead of the audio file. Sorry for any problems this caused.
This week we bring back Steve Murawski (@StevenMurawski) to continue our conversation on Powershell.
Show notes
We had a request to shorten our episode titles so they are better seen on devices. Love it? Hate it? Let us know!
Scripting Games brought to you by powershellcommunity.org and poshcode.org
Powershell Templates for Visual Studio
Script Center
PowerShell SDK Documentation (The SDK is part of the Windows SDK)
PowerShell Programmer's Guide (MSDN)
PowerGUI
PowerShell Plus
Sapien's PrimalScript
/n Software PowerShellToys
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD064.mp3
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This week we have an interview with Aaron Erickson (@AaronErickson), a C# MVP. Aaron talks with us about F#.
Show notes
Aaron’s book “The Nomadic Developer”
Monte Carlo Simulations
”Expert F#“ by Don Syme
"Foundations of F#" by Robert Pickering
”F# for Scientist” by Jon Harrop
Milwaukee area’s Geek Book Club
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD063.mp3
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This week we have an interview with Mike Tai and Matt Stratton of apartments.com. Mike and Matt share with us some of the things that make their website (which gets over 4 million unique visitors a month) scale.
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD062.mp3
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This week we have a special episode where Larry interviews Dave about his recent work on project MEBA. They also talk about the availability of Windows7 RC and the upgrade process.
Show Notes
Chicago Code Camp
Indy Code Camp
Fox Valley Day of .NET
Jim Holmes’ post on unit testing by MS Evangelists
Jack Greenfield’s blog
UMM
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD061.mp3
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This week we have an interview an interview with Chuck Heinzelman, a SQL Server MVP. Chuck is a Database Administrator who has been working with some of the new development oriented features of SQL Server 2008. Chuck blogs at: http://devplanet.com/blogs/memydatabaseandi/.
Show Notes
Books online sparse columns guidelines (% null): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280604.aspx
Migrating to SQL Server 2008 (podcast): http://thirstydeveloper.com/2009/03/02/TheThirstyDeveloper53MigratingToSQLServer2008.aspx
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD060.mp3
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This week we have an interview an interview with Brennan Stehling a developer and author from Milwaukee, WI. Brennan and Larry talk about jQuery. Brennan blogs at http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/.
After the interview Larry talks about with Dave about his finishing up on his special assignment in Redmond. Larry then asks Dave which technology he leans towards: AJAX or RIA.
Show Notes
ASP.NET AJAX
John Resig – creator of jQuery
Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig
cssQuery Project
Learning jQuery by Jonathan Chaffer
Javascript the good parts by Douglas Crockford
Running JSLINT from within Visual Studio
jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault
A Website you should know
Dave’s pick: Clemens Vaster’s Blog
Larry’s pick: W3C Validator for HTML and CSS
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD059.mp3
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This week we have an interview with Chris Deweese, a software architect with REJIS about how they have applied SOA concepts and technology. Chris also discusses some of the issues that they have had with SOA. Our guest interview this week is Clint Edmondson, an architect evangelist based out of St Louis, MO.
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD058.mp3
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This week we talk with Mike Browne, an MVP on Windows Client Technologies about Windows Presentation Foundation. We also spend some time talking about Stream Oriented Computing and a WPF application that he built called flow..
Show Notes
MSDN Magazine Article on M-V-VM Pattern
Martin Fowler’s Presentation Model
Mike Brown’s Flow (early Beta)
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD057.mp3
New Twitter Feed
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This week we talk about the future of managed languages with Mark Strawmyer, a Microsoft MVP in the C# language. Before we dive into the future of languages, Mark and Larry talk about the past, including a trip down memory lane to discuss Visual Basic with and without line numbers. After the interview Dave and Larry catch up and talk about their first and next programming languages.
Show Notes
Qbasic Gorillas Wikipedia Page (includes links to a Flash version of the game)
Unemployed Underscores
visitmix.com for MIX Keynotes
ClearRX – Deborah Alder’s keynote topic
Commodore 64 Manuals
Blog / Site you should know
Dave’s pick: MSDN Developer Centers (VB, C#, C++, etc)
Larry’s pick: Benkotips by Mike Benkovich
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD056.mp3
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This week we talk about REST (Representational state transfer) style web services with Dan Rigsby, a Microsoft MVP specializing in connected systems (WCF and related technologies).
Show Notes
Original Definition of REST (from Roy Fielding’s dissertation)
REST Starter Kit – Preview 2 (Just released!)
JSON Definition (Wikipedia) Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD055.mp3
New Twitter Feed
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This week we have an interview with Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) an IT Specialist (or IT Pro) who is a PowerShell Enthusiast. He is also the co-host of the Mind Of Root podcast.
Show Notes
PowerShell Home Page - http://www.microsoft.com/powershell
Polymon - http://www.codeplex.com/polymon
PowerShell Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/
PowerGUI - http://www.powergui.org/index.jspa
Admin Script Editor - http://www.adminscripteditor.com/
PrimalScript - http://www.primaltools.com/index.asp?p=PrimalScript
Professional Windows PowerShell Programming by Wrox
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD054.mp3
New Twitter Feed
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George Huey
This week we have an interview with George Huey, an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation. George has been helping customer migrate their application databases from SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Show Notes:
SQL Server Upgrade Assistant
SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide
Download / Listen to the Show:
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD053.mp3
This week Dave and Larry interview Erik Klimczak, the creative director of Clarity Consulting, who is also known as the XAML Ninja. We talk with Erik about developing touch based applications for Microsoft Surface and Windows 7 and then talk about the XAML stack.
Show Notes
Thirsty Developer 36 – where Erik got his nickname
Thirsty Developer 49- featuring Twitterlight an Eric Klimczak designed user interface
Microsoft Surface
Windows 7
PDC 2008 Session “Developing for Microsoft Surface”
HP Touchsmart
WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan
A Guide Tour of WPF by Josh Smith
Trial version of Expression Blend 2 (30 day)
Visual Studio Express Edition
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD052.mp3
Note: This podcast was re-published on February 17th, 2009 after an error removed it from the website and feed. It had nothing to do with Ed swearing on the podcast. :-)
This week Dave and Larry interview Ed Thomson, a software developer with Teamprise. Teamprise creates cross platform clients for Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server.
Show Notes
Teamprise’s parent company is Sourcegear
Eric Sink founded sourcegear and he is not a legend
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD051.mp3
This week Dave and Larry interview Paddy, one of the co-founders of Cumulux, a company developing applications targeting the Azure Services Platform.
Show Notes
Azure Services Platform Site
Live Service Developer Site
Cloud Connection (cumulux blog)
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD050.mp3
This week is an interview with Steve Holstad about a front end for Twitter that he created with Silverlight 2.
Show Notes
Twitterlight web site
Steve’s Twitter Handle
Coding for fun article on Twitterlight (with code)
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http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD049.mp3
This week is an interview with Damon Payne about creating a design surface in Silverlight 2.
Program Notes
The Thirsty Developer website was done for about 24 hours. Sorry for any problems that is caused and thanks to the folks who pointed it out to us.
Dave Bost is on temporary assignment in Redmond, WA. He ha promised us a couple of interviews while he is up there. Follow his adventures at http://davebost.com.
Show Notes
Klipsch Corner - Damon's Klipsch fan site
AGT Sample Site
AGT CodePlex Site
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD048.mp3
This week is an interview with Pete Prodoehl (AKA Raster) about Microformats. Before we dive into the topic Larry and Pete talk about his music, Creative Commons and the fact that he has been blogging for more than 11 years.
Show Notes
Backing In (full cut) - The Thirsty Developer Intro Song
Large Deposits (full cut) - The Thirsty Developer Exit Song
Pete's RPM Album "SnowBound" from 2008
Pete's Flickr Account (all under Creative Commons)
Web414 - a Milwaukee based Web User Group
Bucketworks - The World's First Health Club for the Brain
Dave Winer's Blog - Scripting News
Firefox Microformats Extensions
Oomph - A Microformats Toolkit (codeplex site)
Download / Listen to the Show
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD047.mp3
This week is an interview with Matt Terski, the President and co-founder of Serlio Software, a company that creates Case Complete. Matt and Larry talk about Use Cases and how they fit into the software development life cycle. You can follow Matt at the Use Case blog.
Show Notes
Ivar Jacobson
Eric Sink's article on Platforms that Larry Mentioned
Download a free 30 day trial of Case Complete (full featured)
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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD046.mp3
This week is an interview with Mario Rodriguez, a program manager on Team Foundation Server about some of the cool new features in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Angela Binkowski was our special co-host for this episode while Dave Bost is on special assignment in Redmond, WA.
Show Notes
Episode 22 with Ed Glas
Cameron Skinner's Video from PDC (advance to 10:20 in the video)
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD045.mp3
In this week's interview Larry interviews Eric Willeke, an Architect with Inkubook. Inkubook is a start-up that allows users to self publish photo books. Inkubook picked the Silverlight platform to launch their new venture. Eric recently did a presentation to the Indianapolis .Net User Group (IndyNDA) on their experiences with adopting Silverlight this podcast is a sort of replay of that presentation. Eric shares the good, bad and ugly of adopting Silverlight 2 before it was in Beta!.
Show Notes
Dan Rigsby's PDC Halloween Costume
LINQ to SQL Performance from Rico Mariani (Part 1 of 5)
Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked Blog Post by Eric
New Inkubook feature - Calendars
Silverlight Cream - great blog on Silverlight
Silverlight Spy - great tool
ScottGu's Silverlight 3 sneak peek
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD044.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, LinkedIn
Darrin Bishop
At MOSSCamp Chicago 2008 Larry interviewed Darrin Bishop, an independent Consultant with the Darrin Bishop Group and a Microsoft MVP on Windows SharePoint Services. They talk about how a .NET Developer can get started on developing on SharePoint, including how to setup your developer machine for SharePoint Development.
Show Notes
MOSSCamp Project on Codeplex
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Virtual Hard Drive (evaluation)
Setting up SharePoint on MSDN
Darrin's Laptop rig with external hard drive (picture)
MSDN Developer Conference registration is open Darrin's recommended tools
Visual Studio Extensions for WSS
Powershell
IE Developer Toolbar
SharePoint Manager 2007 on CodePlex
SharePoint Guidance from P&P
TypeMOCK Isolator for SharePoint Unit Testing
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD043.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Peter, Maarten, Constance and Larry
Dave and Larry caught up with the Microsoft Community Program Manager Constanze Roman and 2 Microsoft Mobile MVPs: Peter Nowak and Maarten Struys about some of the great announcements about Windows Mobile at the PDC. Specifically they talk about Silverlight 2 for Mobile and Live Mesh for Mobile clients.
Show Notes
PDC Silverlight 2 Mobile Session
Interview with Amit Chopra
Mobile Development Center on MSDN
Codeplex
MSDN Code Gallery
OpenNetCF
MSDN Developer Conference registration is open
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD042.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Interviews Stephanie Saad
In this episode we talk with Stephanie Saad, a group program manager with Microsoft. Stephanie talks about how Microsoft is already using many of the new features of Team Foundation Server that were announced at PDC.
Show Notes
Visual Studio 2010 Talks are available at the MicrosoftPDC.com
MSDN Developer Conference registration is open.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD041.mp3
A Blog you should Know
Dave's Pick: Steve Marx
Larry's Pick: Engineering Windows 7
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this episode we talk with Matt Hester and Matt Heller about how developers and IT Pros should be preparing for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8.
Show Notes
IE Team Blog
MSDN Developer Center on IE
TechnetCenter on IE 8
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD040.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
SXSWi 2008 Sketchnotes: First Spread
By Mike Rhode
Used Under Creative Commons
In this episode we talk with Mike Rohde, an designer, artist and writer based out of the Milwaukee, WI area. Mike has a great technique for capturing notes at a conference, meeting, etc and has shared them with the world.
Show Notes
Flickr Collection of Mike's Sketchnotes
South By Southwest
Seed Conference
Moleskin Notebooks
Jet Pens
Moleskin Hacks by Mike Rohde
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD039.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this episode we talk with Anthony Handley, a designer with Magenic Technologies in Chicago, IL.
Show Notes
An Event Apart
Anthony's .NET Rocks Interview (Show 282)
MOSSCamp
Hawaiian Airlines Case Study
Phizzpop Design Challenge
XAML to Illustrator plugin
Damon Payne's Illustrator Story
Chicago Designer and Developer's User Group
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD038.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this episode we talk with Rick Stratton and John Welborn, two of the founders of Feed.us. Feed.us is a cloud based, distributed content management written with Microsoft technology, but usable by any dynamic (and static) web platform.
Show Notes
Want to learn more about cloud computing? It will be a big topic of conversation at PDC 2008, register now before it sells out.
Rick Mentioned giving the Thirsty Developer listeners a sneak peak of the service. The url is http://feedusdemo.com/, e-mail Rick (contact @ feed.us) and he will send you a userid and password if you tell him you heard about the site on the show.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD037.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this episode we talk with George Durzi a consultant with Clarity Consulting in Chicago, IL about a project that he worked on that used Vista Gadgets, Unified Communications and WPF.
Show Notes
George committed to MOSSCamp 2008 during the show: MOSSCamp Website and Registration
The project that George worked on is up on CodePlex at: http://www.codeplex.com/MOCVistaGadget
WPF presence controls for Communicator 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5001d612-533a-4721-91ea-da990d94ff0f&DisplayLang=en
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD036.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
The first ever (and hopefully annual) Codeapalooza event was held on September 6, 2008 in Wheaton, IL (a suburb of Chicago). The event was a partnership between the Chicago .NET User Group and the Chicago alt.net group. After the conference ended we sat down with some of the organizers and speakers and did a roundtable discussion that led to conversations about UX, languages and what you would like to do if you could "code for fun".
Show Guests
Jason Bock - @jasonbock on Twitter
Kirstin J - @kirstinj on Twitter
Chris Williams - @chrisgwilliams on Twitter
Aaron Erickson - @AaronErickson on Twitter
Keith Franklin
Brian Mavity
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD035.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show Dave, Larry and Brian sit down with Jon Box to discuss Windows Mobile Development.
Show Notes
WM Developer Center
“How Do I?” Videos for Devices
Steve Lasker's Blog
Windows Mobile 6 SDK
Download / Listen to the Show
http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD034-BoxonMobile.mp3
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Brian Gorbett: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Women in Technology
In this show Dave and Larry sit down with their co-workers Beth Humphreys, Jennifer Marsman , Angela Binkowski and Rachel McKane to talk about the role of Women in Technology.
Show Notes
Jennifer's Women in Technology Series
License to Drive - clearly not a John Hughes film
Lego Serious Play
Serious Play for Women at PDC
Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper)
Microsoft's Digigirlz Program
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD033-WomenInTech.mp3
Blogs you should know
No blogs this week!
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Brian Gorbett: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show Dave and Larry sat down with Ka Wai Cheung from We are Mammoth (blog) in downtown Chicago to talk about Software Factories. Dave and Larry first met Ka Wai at the Riapalooza event in Chicago at the end of May.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD032-SoftwareFactories.mp3
Blogs you should know
No blogs this week!
Ways to connect with your hosts:
Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Brian Gorbett: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show Larry sat down with Jeffrey Palermo at his recent visit to the Wisconsin .NET User Group. Jeffery is a Microsoft MVP, CTO of Headspring and the organizer of the world famous "Party with Palermo". They discuss design patterns and Jeffrey's upcoming book. During the interview they change roles and Jeffrey asks Larry some questions about how he came to Microsoft, the role of an evangelist and Larry's recent series of blog posts Architecture By Baseball.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD031-PatternswithPalermo.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: Chris Woodruff's CloudSocket Blog and his Deep Fried Bytes PodcastBrian's pick: JD Meier's Blog
Ways to connect with Brian and Larry:
Brian's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show we have a guest interviewer and co-host: Brian Gorbett is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft DPE based out of Chicago and a new teammate of Dave and Larry's. Brian is filling in for Dave while he is on vacation and will be a new contributor to the Thirsty Developer. Brian recently attended an Internal Microsoft conference, called Techready. While at the conference he recorded a couple of great interviews:
Scott Guthrie - ScottGu tells us about .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and answers some concerns about the upcoming MVC Framework and how it will and will not effect traditional web forms development. He also lets us know why his blog has been do quiet lately.
Mark Hindsbo - Mark is the general manager of Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He and Brian talk about DPEs role and shares his outlook on development and Microsoft's vision for software and services.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD030-Techreadytalk.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: Scripting News by Dave WinerBrian's pick: John Nack on Adobe
Ways to connect with Brian and Larry:
Brian's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Upcoming Halo 3 online "Frag Fest"
Meet the Thirsty Developer hosts in an online Halo 3 match. Friend us on XBOX Live and join us on Saturday August 9th at about 9:00 PM Central Time.
In this show we talk with Charles Sieg, a .NET developer by day and entrepreneur at night, about developing applications for the iPhone. Charles was inspired to create the AccelaStudy line of iPhone and iPod Touch applications for learning a new language by his need to carry around flash cards to learn the Turkish language.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD029-iPhoneEdition.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: Fake Steve Jobs and The Real DanDave's pick: Dime Casts by Derik Whittaker and friends
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Upcoming Halo 3 online "Frag Fest"
Meet the Thirsty Developer hosts in an online Halo 3 match. Friend us on XBOX Live and join us on Saturday August 9th at about 9:00 PM Central Time.
In this show we talk with Sean McCormack about how they have applied SCRUM and Agile principles at the large enterprise where he works.
Show Notes
Sean's open source project Adapdev technologies
DSDM Consortium
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD028-SCRUMandAgile.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: TWIPPhotoDave's pick: Karl Seguin
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Josh and Mike
In this show we have a roundtable at the recent RIAPalooza event in Chicago. We talk with two RIA experts: Josh Holmes of Microsoft (and the Code to Live Show) and Mike Labriola of Digital Primates and an Adobe Community Expert - Flex. Josh and Mike were fresh off their "Best and Worst Practices Building a RIA" session from the event.
Before the interview Dave and Larry talk about untested way of getting a generation 1 iPhone on the cheap as well as ways to "cheat" at the new Lego Indiana Jones xbox game.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD027-RIARoundtable.mp3
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show, we talk with Tim Heuer, a Microsoft Program Manager who works with technologies like Silverlight and Corrina Barber, a designer who works on the UIFX team with tools like Expression Blend. We caught up with Tim and Corrina at the RIAPalooza event in Chicago at the end of May. We talked about the designer and developer workflow.
Show Notes
Corrina's great Silverlight Templates
Blendables
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD026-TimandCorrina.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: TED BlogDave's pick: Nibbles Blog and the related Nibbles Tutorials
Dave shows his softer side
During the show Dave admits to watching Oprah Webcasts with his wife. One of the ones that caught his attention was Jill Bolte Taylor's story that was originally a TED Talk called stroke of insight. Check out the talk:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
Thirsty Developer Halo Fragfest
Dave and Larry periodically join some friends and co-workers on XBOX Live for a little Halo 3 action and would like to invite our listeners to join us. Friend us on XBOX Live (GamerTags: BogeyD for Dave and Bottom9th for Larry). And join us:
Saturday Night, July 12th at 8:30 CDT (Central Daylight Time)
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag
In this show, we talk with Joe Stagner, who is Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek and a program manager in the developer division community team. We caught up with Joe at the PHP|Tek 2008 conference in Chicago, IL
Show Notes
During the show we talked about a number of the open source initiatives at Microsoft, including:
CodePlex - an open source hosting platform by Microsoft
Port 25 - a communication portal
ASP.NET MVC Framework - a project under development
Zune Contest Winner
We are please to announce the winner of our second Zune contest. Michael Wood of Kentucky is our lucky winner. Michael is one of the founders of the Cincinnati .NET User Group. Enjoy your Zune!
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD025-JoeStagner.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: arCast.tvDave's pick: Rob Conery's Weke Road
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
In this show, we talk with Jeff Moser and Dan Rigsby about the art and science of technical blogging. We also catch up with Dave after him being gone for 2 episodes and hear what he has been up to.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD024-Blogging.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's pick: Flickr Blog
Dave's pick: Microspotting
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
In this show, we talk with Chris Pietschmann, a developer and a Microsoft MVP on the Virtual Earth platform. Chris tells us how he got started on Virtual Earth back in the beta of version 1.0 and gives us a good overview of the product.
Virtual Earth Links (courtesy of Chris):
Chris Pietschmann's Blog - http://pietschsoft.com
Virtual Earth Dev Site - http://dev.live.com/virtualearth
Virtual Earth Interactive SDK - http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk
Mike Garza - Virtual Earth Concepts - http://garzilla.net/vemaps/
Via Virtual Earth - http://viavirtualearth.com
MapCruncher - http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/mapcruncher/
PietschSoft.VE - Open Source ASP.NET Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control - http://codplex.com/PietschSoftVE3
Simplovation Web.Maps.VE - ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control - http://simplovation.com/page/webmapsve.aspx
Zune Contest
Our second Zune contest is still underway, but closes on June 2nd - so get your entries in. One lucky winner will receive a Zune80 with custom artwork etched from ZuneOriginals.net. This contest is easy enough. Just send us your constructive feedback on what Microsoft can do better to support your work/personal life in utilizing Microsoft's tools and technologies. Send your entries to thirstydeveloper [at] live.com with the subject header of 'Zune Contest'.
Submit your feedback and your entry for a custom Zune80.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD023-VirtualEarth.mp3
Blogs you should know
Virtual Earth 3D Team Blog
Mark Brown's Virtual Earth Blog
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
For this episode Larry flies solo, as Dave has been busy putting together the Code Fests: Hands on labs on some of the new features of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. If you are in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana, and want to attend a Code Fest check Dave's Blog for details.
In this show, Larry sits down with Ed Glas, a program manager on the Team System team, who is responsible for the web load testing tools that are part of the product. We talked at the recent QAI Conference in Chicago, IL. Among other things, Ed gives us some insights (no promises) on features they are looking at for future releases of the product.
Our second Zune contest is still underway. One lucky winner will receive a Zune80 with custom artwork etched from ZuneOriginals.net. This contest is easy enough. Just send us your constructive feedback on what Microsoft can do better to support your work/personal life in utilizing Microsoft's tools and technologies. Send your entries to thirstydeveloper [at] live.com with the subject header of 'Zune Contest'.
Submit your feedback and your entry for a custom Zune80.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD022-WebLoadTesting.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's Pick: Team System Videos on asp.net
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Canopy Financial
In this weeks show, Larry sits down with some of the fine folks from Canopy Financial to discuss they started a business based on .NET technologies and tools. We also discuss Microsoft Start-Up Zone and how start-up companies can work with Microsoft to launch their businesses.
We also discuss the outcome of what Jeff Atwood was teasing us with Episode 18. A partner venture with Joel Spolsky to create a technical community portal called Stack Overflow. Joel and Jeff are also recording their weekly planning calls on offering that up as podcast, which is certainly a good listen.
We finish this week's episode by announcing our second Zune contest. One lucky winner will receive a Zune80 with custom artwork etched from ZuneOriginals.net. This contest is easy enough. Just send us your constructive feedback on what Microsoft can do better to support your work/personal life in utilizing Microsoft's tools and technologies. Send your entries to thirstydeveloper [at] live.com with the subject header of 'Zune Contest'.
Submit your feedback and your entry for a custom Zune80.
Download / Listen to the Show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD021-StartingUpOnDotNet.mp3
Blogs you should know
Larry's Pick: Jeff Moser's Software Development Adventures
Dave's Pick: Sara Fords Weblog / Visual Studio Tip of the Day
Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:
Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile
Beth and the Stormtroopers
In this episode we talk with our pal Server Girl (Beth Humphreys) about Hyper-V the new virtualization technology included in Windows Server 2008. Beth gives us a great overview of the technology and we chat about how developers can use Hyper-V technology to create a great developer rig.
Second Life Heroes Happen Here Launch
Before we jumped into the interview Dave spends some time talking about this last weekend's Heroes Happen Here launch event in Second Life (the 3D Virtual World). The event was put on by the Second Life .NET Users Group and coordinated by our fellow Evangelist Zain Naboulsi. You can read Zain's blog post on the event and check out some photos.
Show Links
Hyper-V information (includes link to download RC0 or latest released version): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx
Hyper-V management tools for Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949758
Currently tested guest OSes: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-faq.aspx
Download / Listen to the show
http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD020-ServerGirlonHyperV.mp3
A blog you should know
Dave's Pick: Ben Armstrong's Virtual PC Guy
Larry's Pick: Paul Thurrott's Win Super Site