Herding Code

genre: Science & Technology/Computers

A weekly discussion featuring K. Scott Allen (odetocode.com), Kevin Dente, Scott Koon (lazycoder), and Jon Galloway

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Herding Code 143 – Paul Stack on Continuous Delivery
5/11/2012
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The guys talk to Paul Stack about Continuous Deployment. Download / Listen: Herding Code 143 – Paul Stack on Continuous Delivery K. Scott asks Paul for a description of what Continuous Delivery is. Paul talks about the differences between Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Scott brings up the difficulties that databases [...]
Herding Code 142 – Scott Guthrie on the ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor Open Source Announcement
4/23/2012
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The gang talks to Scott Guthrie about the recent announcement that ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor are being developed in public, open source repositories using git and will accept external code contributions. It’s an action packed show, jam packed with information and guys named Scott. Download / Listen: Herding Code 142 – Scott Guthrie [...]
Herding Code 141 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri
4/11/2012
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K Scott wraps up his series of lightning round interviews from Sofware Passion Summit by interviewing Hadi Hariri. Download / Listen: Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri Show Notes: K Scott asks Hadi about EasyHttp. Hadi explains some of the problems and annoyances EasyHttp solves. Configuring the web request was a pain [...]
Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg on APL
4/11/2012
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While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott continues a series of lightning round interviews with Morten Kromberg, discussing APL. Download / Listen: Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg Show Notes: Morten describes the history and purpose of APL. Did you know that APL stands for "A Programming Language"? The first book about [...]
Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove on his new book, Notes to a software team leader
4/11/2012
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While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott continues a series of lightning round interviews with Roy Osherove discussing Roy’s new book, Notes to a software team leader. Download / Listen: Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove Show Notes: K Scott asks Roy about his new book. Roy talks about the LeanPub approach. [...]
Herding Code 138 – Lightning Round with Douglas Crockford
4/11/2012
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While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott did a series of four Lightning Round interviews, starting with Douglas Crockford. Download / Listen: Herding Code 138 – Douglas Crockford Show Notes: K Scott asks Douglas what he meant when he said that the human brain wasn’t designed for this sort of work? What were we designed [...]
Herding Code 137 – Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones
3/29/2012
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Oh, hey. A discussion show. Haven’t done one of those for a while. Bonus: recorded during the day so K Scott’s awake. Download / Listen: Herding Code 137: Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones Show Notes: K Scott asks everyone’s opinions on the GitHub / Ruby on [...]
Herding Code 136: Code52 with Paul Jenkins, Brendan Forster, and Andrew Tobin
3/10/2012
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In this episode, Jon and Scott K talk talk with the guys behind Code52, an effort to spin up a new open source project every week for a year. Download / Listen: Herding Code 136: Code52 with Paul Jenkins, Brendan Forster, and Andrew Tobin Show Notes: Jon starts by asking how this whole idea got [...]
Herding Code 135: Remco Mulder and Jeff Schumacher on Continuous Testing
2/27/2012
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In this episode, the guys talk with Remco Mulder (author of NCrunch) and Jeff Schumacher (author of Giles) about continuous testing in .NET. Download / Listen: Herding Code 135: Remco Mulder and Jeff Schumacher on Continuous Testing Show Notes: Scott K kicks things off with a horrible old school BASIC joke. Remco explains how NCrunch [...]
Herding Code 134: Brad Wilson on ASP.NET 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API
2/17/2012
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In this episode, Jon talks to Brad Wilson about the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release. Download / Listen: Herding Code 134: Brad Wilson on ASP.NET 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API Show Notes: Brad starts with a rundown of what was in ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview, including HTML5 Default Template features, Adaptive Rendering, Mobile [...]
Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js
2/3/2012
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In this episode, the guys talk with Derick Bailey (consultant and founder of watchmecode.net, where he sells JavaScript themed screen casts) about Backbone.js, which is a popular JavaScript framework. Download / Listen: Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js Show Notes: Derick starts off by explaining what Backbone is not: a JavaScript MVC framework. Backbone [...]
Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers
1/20/2012
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In this episode, they guys talk with Phil Haack and Paul Betts (both new GitHubbers) and Keith Dahlby (author of posh-git, a set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration) about using Git on Windows. Download / Listen: Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers Show Notes: [...]
Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community
1/4/2012
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In this episode, the guys talk to Chris Williams (organizer of jsConf) and Matthew Podwysocki about the Javascript community, fighting negativity in the programmer community, emerging Javascript trends, and the merits of spring beers. Jon asks Chris to catch us up with what’s happened since we last talked to him, just after jsConf.us 2010. Chris [...]
Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service built with MVC, MongoDB and SignalR
1/2/2012
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In this episode, Jon Galloway and Kevin Dente talk to Dave Weaver about Loggr, a complete logging, analytics and notification system that will easily bolt on to your application. Dave runs Markkup, a consulting company and is building Loggr, SaaS application that provides real time logging and monitoring. He was one of the founders of [...]
Herding Code 129: Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey and the Chuck Norris Frameworks
12/13/2011
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In this episode, Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente and guest host John Sheehan talk to Rob Reynolds about Chocolatey (a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get for Windows), as well as Rob’s Chuck Norris frameworks for project setup, management, deployment, and more. Rob talks about how Nu helped shape the direction of NuGet. Chocolatey is a [...]
Herding Code 128: Corey Haines on Global Day of Coderetreat (December 3)
11/26/2011
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On this episode of Herding Code, Scott K, Jon, and Kevin talk to Corey Haines about the Global Day of Coderetreat event being held in 90+ cities on December 3. Scott asks Corey to start by explaining his software journeyman thing, or as Scott calls it “couch surfing in return for coding.” Corey describes how he transitioned [...]
Herding Code 127: Setting up your Computer and Work Area
11/22/2011
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On this episode of Herding Code, the guys discuss computer and work area setup, from installation and file management to ergonomic work areas and animated GIF’s. Kevin and K Scott both just got MacBooks, they discuss what they are doing with them, such as using the emulator to test HTML5 apps for iPhone/iPad. Jon asks, [...]
Herding Code 126: Jeff Atwood on the overlap of Video Games and Learning
11/15/2011
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On this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Jeff Atwood about the intersection of video games and learning, along the way discussing music, learning to program, casual games, bleeding edge games about bleeding (Battlefield 3), Kinect, Wii, and retro games. Jeff talks about video games as a gateway to programming. Jon and Jeff [...]
Herding Code 125: Truffler with Joel Abrahamsson, Marcus Granstrom and Henrik Lindstrom
11/4/2011
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On this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Joel Abrahamsson, Marcus Granström and Henrik Lindström about Truffler, a solution for building advanced search and querying functionality for websites and other data-centric systems. They talk about their backgrounds and combining their different skills to build something pretty awesome. K. Scott says Truffler has a [...]
Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse
10/24/2011
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On this episode, the guys talk to Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar about Glimpse, which allows you to debug your web site or web service right in the browser. Jon asks why Glimpse was created. Anthony gives a high-level explanation of what Glimpse does. Glimpse is for your server what Firebug is for [...]
Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx
10/17/2011
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On this episode, the guys talk to Andreas and Steven about Nancy, a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. Scott Koon asks why Nancy was developed and what are the problems going up against ASP.NET. Andreas explains Nancy is a lighter approach and doesn’t get in the way. Andreas [...]
Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows
10/11/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Bert Belder, a Node.js developer who’s working on the native Windows port. Kevin asks how Bert got started with Node.js. Bert explains that he was working on a PHP based system which had a good amount of logic in Javascript, and he started looking to node [...]
Herding Code 121: Sara Chipps updates us on Girl Develop It at one year
9/23/2011
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This episode of Herding Code Kevin and Jon catch up with Sara Chipps to find out how Girl Develop It is going. Kevin jumps right into it by asking Sara about what’s been going on over the past year. Sara goes back to what was on their minds as they were first getting started with [...]
Herding Code 120: Ryan Stewart on RIAs and All Things Adobe
9/13/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Ryan Stewart, a developer evangelist at Adobe. Scott K asks about the pricing of Adobe products. Ryan explains why things are priced as they are and talks about the subscription model alternative. Jon talks about the open other free or inexpensive alternatives for beginning Adobe development [...]
Herding Code 119: On The Writing Technical Books (with Jesse Liberty, Phil Haack, and Brad Wilson)
8/27/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Jesse Liberty, Phil Haack, and Brad Wilson about writing technical books. Jesse has written dozens of technical books, and both Brad and Phil worked with Jon and K. Scott on the recently released ASP.NET Professional MVC 3 book. What’s it like to write a book? Why [...]
Herding Code 118: Paul Betts on SassAndCoffee
8/11/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Paul Betts about SassAndCoffee, a NuGet package that adds runtime Sass and CoffeeScript compilation to ASP.NET. Jon asks Paul about his role on the Office Labs team [Spoiler alert! Since this podcast, Paul has started a new job at GitHub!] Jon asks Paul about why he [...]
Herding Code 117: Llewellyn Falco on Approval Tests
7/21/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Llewellyn Falco about Acceptance Tests, an interesting testing framework for .NET, Java, Ruby, and PHP. Jon talks about how much he enjoyed Llewellyn’s talk on refactoring legacy code at So Cal Code Camp, and was especially intrigued by Approval Tests. Llewellyn explains how Approval Tests got started at a weekly [...]
Herding Code 116: Eric Lawrence on Fiddler, IE Internals, and HTTP
7/1/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Eric Lawrence, the author of the popular Fiddler web debugging proxy. Eric’s also a member of the Internet Explorer team and developer of several popular freeware tools. Eric explains how he’s been working on – and now runs – the team that works on the networking [...]
Herding Code 115: RESTravaganza with Darrel Miller, Glenn Block, and John Sheehan
6/22/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk REST with Glenn Block (who’s driving the WCF Web APIs), Darrel Miller (a REST expert with a lot of real world production experience), and John Sheehan (author of RestSharp) about what REST really is and what practical value it really offers in real world, production applications. Jon [...]
Herding Code 114: Trevor Burnham on CoffeeScript
6/14/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Trevor Burnham about Coffeescript, “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.” Kevin asks Trevor to explain what CoffeeScript is. Trevor explains how CoffeeScript helps you to write the same code you would have in JavaScript, but more quickly and with less effort. Kevin ask if people [...]
Herding Code 113: Mark Russinovich on Zero Day and Computer Security
5/27/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Mark Russinovich about his new book (Zero Day), modern malware like Stuxnet, his experiences discovering the Sony rootkit, Sysinternals tools, and computer security in general. K Scott asks Mark about how he decided to write Zero Day. Mark talks about how early, unsophisticated viruses still caused [...]
Herding Code 112: Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC
5/24/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller about what’s new with FubuMVC. Jeremy Miller explains why FubuMVC "deserves to exist" and explains how compositional architecture and conventions help in building complex systems. Josh talks about how FubuMVC diagnostics help in understanding how the conventions are being applied how [...]
Herding Code 111: John Papa on the Open Source Fest at MIX11
5/4/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to John Papa about the Open Source Fest he put together at MIX11. Jon asks how the whole thing got started, and if John encountered any friction within Microsoft in getting this set up. John describes the event and calls out some of the winners from the [...]
Herding Code 110: Geoff Dalgas and Jarrod Dixon take us behind the scenes at StackExchange
4/25/2011
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This episode of Herding Code Kevin and Jon sit down with Geoff and Jarrod at MIX to talk about their experiences from helping to build the first StackOverflow site up through today’s fast paced world of StackExchanges and gold plated Lamborghinis. Note: We recorded in quietest spot we could find – there’s some background noise, [...]
Herding Code 109: Harmony Hackathon
4/20/2011
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This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to the organizers of the Harmony Hackathon: twelve developers coding madly for 48 hours, trying to build an application for the non-profit Harmony Hill cancer retreat center. Eric talks about the Harmony Hackathon came together and what they were trying to accomplis. Jon asks about how things [...]
Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design
3/25/2011
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This episode of Herding Code continues a discussion / argument that Jon started with Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Twitter a few weeks ago after reading a post he liked from a product designer at Quora about how they don’t use Photoshop in their design process. What’s the role of visual design in the [...]
Herding Code 107: Apple Subscription fees, Nokia, Reflector, Mono, Watson, CardSpace, and IE9 RC
3/10/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk nonsense for over an hour. Topic: The Apple Store 30% fee for App Subscriptions – who’s surprised, what apps will it affect, etc. The conversation shifts to Kindle, and whether content focused apps can move to HTML only. Topic: Windows Mobile deal with Nokia – will [...]
Herding Code 106: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data
2/22/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys speak with Mark Rendle about his Simple.Data and Fix projects. The show begins with Mark’s Simple.Data elevator pitch in which he explains that Simple.Data is an ORM without the O, the R or the M. Jon asks about Mark’s heavy use of dynamic types in the Simple.Data [...]
Herding Code 105: Brad Wilson on MVC 3
2/14/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to ASP.NET team member and repeat guest Brad Wilson about what’s new in ASP.NET MVC 3, BDD-style testing with SpecFlow and WaitN, and the latest release of xUnit.net. Jon begins the show by sharing Brad’s bio and then dives right in asking about ASP.NET MVC 3 [...]
Herding Code 104: Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn Micro
2/7/2011
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You remember Rob Eisenberg from Herding Code Show #57 when he talked presentation patterns along with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell and Glenn Block. Well, in this episode of Herding Code, the conversation continues as Rob talks with the guys about Caliburn.Micro, an opinionated MVVM framework for WPF, Silverlight and WP7. Kevin kicks off this week’s [...]
Herding Code 103: Seb Lambla on OpenEverything
1/25/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk with “self-congratulatory, self-proclaimed, egotistical doofus” Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta, OpenWrap and Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN.) K Scott kicks off the show asking Seb about his most popular OSS project – OpenRasta provides the 30 second elevator pitch and touches on his web framework which [...]
Herding Code 102: Tim Caswell on Node.js
1/19/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk with avid open source contributor Tim Caswell about Node.js for which he is a community leader.  Listen in as the guys dig into node.js and what it has to offer. Tim gives the node.js elevator pitch and begins to explain what node offers – like event [...]
Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design
1/14/2011
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Kelly Sommers. Jon asks Kelly about her first big post, What fuels my passion for technology & writing code Kelly talks about her experience getting started on Twitter Jon asks Kelly about her post on how desktop UI’s feel boring compared to mobile UI’s Jon [...]
Herding Code 100: One Hundredth Show Celebration with Queen Beatrix
1/2/2011
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One hundred shows! Her Majesty Queen Beatrix shows up and talks with the gang about the previous 99 shows. Jon summarizes the server logs and beatboxes, K Scott talks about his jetset life via a flaky internet connection, Kevin reveals that this isn’t the podcast he thought he was signing up for, and Scott K [...]
Herding Code 99: David Ebbo on NuGet
12/2/2010
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to David Ebbo, an architect on the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team, about NuGet, a new open source package management system for the .NET platform. David describes the history of NuGet – how NuGet evolved from a web-based feature for use in ASP.NET Web Pages [...]
Herding Code 98: Dale Ragan on Moncai
11/29/2010
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In the previous episode, when the guys were talking to Jackson Harper about Manos de Mono, he mentioned that Dale Ragan was doing cooking up something really exciting for hosting ASP.NET web applications with support for deployment via Git or Mercurial. So, they called him up and recorded a show right then and there. Jackson [...]
Herding Code 97: Jackson Harper on Manos de Mono
11/16/2010
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In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk with Jackson Harper about Manos de Mono, his lightweight web application framework that runs on Mono. The goal of Manos is to simplify the entire process of creating, managing and updating a web application from prototyping and design to deployment.  Manos aims to be Simple, Testable, [...]
Herding Code 96: Eric Sink on Veracity and DVCS
11/2/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Eric Sink, cofounder of SourceGear, about Veracity and Distributed Version Control Systems. Listen in and learn about Veracity’s architecture including pluggable layers and a unique approach to data storage all built on an impressive technical stack. And get an answer to the question that everyone’s asking [...]
Herding Code 95: MonoDroid with Miguel and the Mono gang
10/14/2010
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Hey, it’s a bunch of Mono guys! That’s always fun. This time they’re talking about MonoDroid. Joining the gang this week are Miguel de Icaza, Joseph Hill, Geoff Norton, and Mike Kestner talk about developing .NET applications for the Android platform with Mono. Jon asks about where MonoDroid is at in the product lifecycle. Jon [...]
Herding Code 94: Silverlight and HTML5
10/1/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk to Adam Kinney and Rick Barraza about how Silverlight fits into a world where HTML5 is finally becoming a reality. Jon asks about Adam and Rick’s opinions on the recent post on the Silverlight Team Blog about the future of Silverlight Adam talks about he sees consumer [...]
Herding Code 93: Computer Errors, Home Media, and The Fall of The Roman Empire
9/21/2010
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This week on Herding Code, it’s story time. Have you ever fallen victim to a software glitch?  Are you frustrated by those green screens which are still running social security, the IRS and the DMV?  Ever dealt with a medical database? Or maybe you owned a Zune on December 31, 2008? If so, you’ll want [...]
Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu
8/27/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Kevin, Jon and Scott K speak with Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds about Nu, a .NET package management system designed to solve your open source distribution/consumption issues. The guys discuss how package management is handled in other communities, namely Ruby, and how the .NET world can benefit from these same [...]
Herding Code 91: Listener-Powered Lightning Round
8/19/2010
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This week on Herding Code, K Scott, Jon, Kevin, and Scott K field your questions. That’s right – it’s a Listener-Powered Lightning Round! Whether you were interested in their opinions on Microsoft LightSwitch, energy drinks or how the current economic downturn affects quality and craftsmanship, this week’s conversation is being directed by you! Thanks, listeners, [...]
Herding Code 90: Sara Chipps on Girl Develop IT and Girls Developing Software
8/12/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the boys talk with Sara Chipps about Girl Develop IT, a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." Listen in as Sara talks about repairing the wide gender gap in development through her series of classes which help women [...]
Herding Code 89: Vaidy Gopalakrishnan on IIS Developer Express
8/5/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Vaidy Gopalakrishnan about IIS Developer Express. The show kicks off by explaining the IIS Developer Express name.  Why not just IIS Express? Vaidy provides an overview of IIS Developer Express and explains it is a lightweight, self-contained version of IIS for web developers.   Vaidy speaks about [...]
Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4
7/21/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Microsoft MVP, MSDN Magazine columnist and Programming Entity Framework author Julie Lerman about what’s new in Entity Framework 4.  The show begins with Julie providing a broad look at the new features and improvements around the EF designer, the run-time, POCO support and disconnected entities. Julie [...]
Herding Code 87: Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow
7/8/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Jeff Atwood about his new Area 51 venture, the running of Stack Overflow, the community of Q & A sites, and memories of the glockenspiel. Jeff walks us through the genesis of Stack Overflow and how it begot Server Fault, Super User, Stack Exchange and now [...]
Herding Code 86: Saqib Shaikh on Accessibility and Developing with Limited Sight
6/27/2010
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While at Web Camps London, Jon talks to Saqib Shaikh about how he’s able to develop with limited sight and what developers can do to make our applications more accessible. Saqib talks about his role on the Bing Team, data mining and deep links. Jon and Saqib talk about solving problems with a little help [...]
Herding Code 85: Clint Nelsen on Startup Weekend
6/27/2010
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While at Web Camps London, Jon grabs a quick 15 minute interview with Clint Nelsen to talk about Startup Weekend . Clint gives the elevator pitch and a brief history of Startup Weekend. Jon talks about how they are incorporating Startup Weekend into Web Camps. The guys talk about project implementation. Clint talks about Startup [...]
Herding Code 84: Ex-Microsoft Developer Panel with Mike Moore, Jeff Cohen, and Scott Bellware
6/27/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk to Jeff Cohen, Mike Moore, and Scott Bellware about why and how they’ve moved away from Microsoft development and into the Ruby community. K Scott asks the guests about why they switched. Jeff talks about how his switch from desktop development on Windows to Rails development started [...]
Herding Code 83: Ayende Rahien on RavenDB
6/13/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Ayende Rahien (a.k.a. Oren Eini) about RavenDB, a new Open Source (with a commercial option) document database for the .NET/Windows platform. The shows starts with a general definition of document databases.  Ayende then contrasts RavenDB with two other popular document databases, Mongo and CouchDB, and comments [...]
Herding Code 82: Cory Foy and Will Green Compare .NET and Ruby Development
6/6/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Cory Foy and Will Green join the guys to discuss general differences between .NET and Ruby development approaches. Is the grass always greener on the other side? Listen in on this week’s talk about how languages, frameworks, tools and cultures shape the way we implement .NET and Ruby solutions and [...]
Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development
5/25/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys discuss compare notes on how to teach software development topics. Is hands-on instruction key? How much should you simplify to focus on mechanics? How do you teach, and how do you like to learn? Jon talks about his impressions on the effectiveness of hands-on learning at Web Camp [...]
Herding Code 80: RxJS with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki
5/19/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki about the Reactive Extensions for Javascript. Matt talks about how he’s been involved with RxJS. Jeffrey talks about how RxJS and Reactive Extensions came out of the the Volta project. Matt talks about how RxJS simplifies the callback model in [...]
Herding Code 79: JSConf Recap with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki
5/2/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki about this year’s JSConf. Chris begins the show with a conference overview which will leave you chomping at the bit for JSConf 2011 registration to open. Hackers’ Lounge. Multiple tracks. One killer speaker list. Hyper-caffeinated, hyper-intoxicated privates! Salmagundi. And [...]
Herding Code 78: Ruby on Rails, View Engines, Web Security, Section 3.3.1 and Visual Studio 2010 with Rob Conery
4/20/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin, Scott K and Rob Conery discuss Ruby on Rails, using dynamic languages to write views, web security, advanced javascript techniques, recent Twitter news, Section 3.3.1 and the official release of Visual Studio 2010. The show begins with talk of Kevin’s recent dabbling into Ruby on Rails. The guys [...]
Herding Code 77: Eric Hexter on MvcConf, C4MVC, and MvcContrib
4/5/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin and Scott K discuss MvcConf, C4MVC and MvcContrib with, open source and community extraordinaire, Eric Hexter.  Eric talks about his role as consultant and Director of Open Source at Headspring. The guys walk through Hexter’s impressive resume.   Eric is the co-founder of MVCContrib, he established the Community for [...]
Herding Code 76: John Sheehan on RestSharp
4/2/2010
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This week on Herding Code, John Sheehan joins the cast for a conversation about his open source project, RestSharp. The gang dives into REST and .NET open source. Makes sense, right? And the show wraps with talk of OData and a MIX10-inspired Lightning Round. John talks about his exciting new evangelist job at Twilio. Twillo [...]
Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security
3/5/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Barry Dorrans educates, entertains, insults and scares us with his expert commentary on application security, threat modeling, analysis tools and common attacks.  You’ve been waiting for this show.  I just know it.  Listen in as Barry talks security, pimps his new book, and comments on his new position at Microsoft, [...]
Herding Code 74: Javier Lozano on MVC Turbine and Composed Applications
2/23/2010
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This week on Herding Code, K Scott leads a conversation with ASP.NET Insider and MVP, Javier Lozano, about his open source project, MVC Turbine, and extensibility and composition with ASP.NET MVC. Javier provides a twitter-like overview of his open source project: “MVC Turbine helps you build modular applications on top of ASP.NET MVC and that’s [...]
Herding Code 73: Daniel Plaisted on Model-Based Testing in Action on the MEF Team
2/14/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Jon leads a discussion with Daniel Plaisted about Model-Based Testing and the progressive practices of the MEF team. Daniel speaks of the primary development roles at Microsoft and how the MEF team addresses testing concerns. Guess what.  Developers write tests, too. Daniel talks about Model-Based Testing and validation of transitions [...]
Herding Code 72: Questioning Uncle Bob, Clojure Magic, Mercurial Support at Codeplex, Thoughts About the iPad and Handerpants
2/7/2010
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This week on Herding Code, the gang discusses Uncle Bob’s self-titled blatherings about DI, IoC and Mocking, Clojure and polyglot programming, managed javascript, and recent support for Mercurial at Codeplex. The show finishes up with another K Scott Lightning Round with questions about the iPad and non-technical blog recommendations. Uncle Bob recently published two articles [...]
Herding Code 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff
2/1/2010
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This week on Herding Code, James Avery and Rob Conery join the cast in a lively discussion about NoSQL, TekPub, the new DotNetKicks and the technical debate du jour, ASP.NET Web Forms vs ASP.NET MVC. Kevin asks Rob and James to share their views on NoSQL and the use of object and document databases.  James [...]
Herding Code 70: Sean Chambers on Migrations in .NET
1/25/2010
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This week on Herding Code, we talk to Sean Chambers about migrations in .NET with Fluent Migrator. Sean talks about how Fluent Migrator originated from Migrator.NET Sean discusses how the benefits of a semantic model in Fluent Migrator K Scott and Sean discuss how you’d start using Fluent Migrator in a project Sean talks about [...]
Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists
1/22/2010
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This week on Herding Code, Scott Bellware returns to talk about .  Scott talks about the frustrations in working with “HTML Specialists” Scott discusses the team issues caused by specialists in a software team who aren’t in touch with the entire product development cycle The problem with handoffs: loss of workability Eventually, things turn to [...]
Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans
1/15/2010
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In this episode of Herding Code, the gang talks about what happened last year and what they think will happen in the years to come.  Oh, and K Scott brings us the first lightning round of 2010! How will the guys manage the show in 2010?  Google Docs and listener requests? Are you bitter because [...]
Herding Code 67: Udi Dahan on Scalability
1/10/2010
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You’re interested in web application scalability and availability, right?  Of course you are!  Well, you’re in luck because Udi Dahan – enterprise development expert, SOA specialist and author of NServiceBus – joins the guys on this week’s episode of Herding Code.  Jon kicks off the show by asking Udi if one can run a high-availability [...]
Herding Code 66: Brad Wilson and Scott Densmore on iPhone Development
12/16/2009
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What do Brad Wilson and Scott Densmore have in common?  They’re expert .NET developers, a couple of Mac fanboys, and they’re both joining the guys on this week’s episode of Herding Code.  Listen in while Brad and, yet another, Scott talk about the Mac, Windows, and the ins and outs of iPhone development: In case [...]
Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!)
12/12/2009
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In this episode, we talk to Scott Hanselman about Jon’s new job with Microsoft, how (if at all) that affects this podcast, and running Ubuntu on a Dell Mini 9. Scott H talks about how, other than the obvious request to get Scott Koon removed from the show, there’s no need to fear any changes [...]
Herding Code 64: Phil Haack on MVC 2
11/22/2009
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The guys grill Phil on ASP.NET MVC2, and introduce a new segment: Abusive Questions From Twitter! Phil starts with the new <%: code block syntax, IHtmlString, HtmlString, MvcHtmlString Jon asks about DisplayFor, EditorFor improvements Phil discusses validation improvements – validation extensibility and client-side validation MVC 2 is built on .NET 3.5 SP1 Phil talks about [...]
Herding Code 63: Victory in Software Development with K Scott Allen
10/24/2009
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On the heels of his recent Concept Camp 2009 fireside keynote, K Scott brings his opinion about victory in software development to the podcast. Listen in as the guys consider how to define and measure success, how to solve business problems despite our customers and ourselves, and how to focus less on risk and more [...]
Herding Code 62: MonoTouch with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton
10/12/2009
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In this episode of Herding Code, Jon and Scott Koon pair up with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton of the Mono Project and discuss MonoTouch: Jon asks Geoff Norton, engineering lead on the MonoTouch project and founder of the Cocoa# and Objective-C# projects, to give the elevator speech about MonoTouch and why one might [...]
Herding Code 61: CodePlex Foundation, Bing Visual Search, Microsoft Ajax CDN, Zune HD Release
10/6/2009
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This episode of Herding Code is a roundtable discussion which includes the entire cast. The guys dedicate the majority of the show to the CodePlex Foundation – what the foundation provides, speculation on what the foundation might accomplished, and how success should be measured.  The guys also offer a glowing review of Bing Visual Search, [...]
Herding Code 60: Spark View Engine with Louis DeJardin
9/23/2009
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In this episode of the Herding Code Podcast, the guys talk to Louis DeJardin about the Spark View Engine. Louis talks about how the Spark View Engine was inspired by NVelocity and hatched from a comment thread on Phil Haack’s blog. Kevin asks about the HTML-like syntax syntax in a Spark view – how it [...]
Herding Code 59: Web Standards with Milan Negovan
9/9/2009
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In this episode of the Herding Code Podcast, the guys sit down with Milan Negovan of ASP.NET Resources to discuss web standards, usability and accessibility.  Milan also shares his opinions on the onslaught of new technologies coming out of Redmond, why developers should avoid big conferences, the benefits of independent consulting, the motivation of Microsoft [...]
Herding Code 58: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2)
8/24/2009
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How about that?  You stuck around!  It was the Waylon Jennings, Good Ol’ Boys, Dukes of Hazzard, freeze frame cliffhanger at the end of Part 1 which hooked you, wasn’t it?  Undoubtedly you have been on the edge of your seat for days, just waiting to see how the show turns out.  Well, wait no [...]
Herding Code 57: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 1)
8/19/2009
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Have you seen the circus gag where clown after clown emerges from the smallest car one could possibly image?  Well, this week on Herding Code, the guys attempt that very same trick!  Listen in as Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (that’s right, four guests!) join the cast and talk Presentation Patterns.  [...]
Herding Code 56: Markus Völter on Model-Driven Development, DSLs and Product Line Engineering
8/7/2009
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You know Markus Völter as the founder and voice of Software Engineering Radio. Well, this week on Herding Code, Markus finds himself on the other side of the microphone – fielding, rather than asking, questions. Listen in as Markus explains model-driven software development and product line engineering. Learn about modeling, domain-specific languages, code generation, Eclipse, [...]
Herding Code 55: Nate Kohari brings Your Moment of Zen
7/30/2009
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Nate Kohari? Kanban Boards? Continuous Improvement? Zen? Stop right there! We know what you’re thinking.  You already heard this episode about three weeks ago on that other podcast, right?  Well, think again, because this week on Herding Code, the guys pick up where that interview left off.  Listen in as Nate Kohari, the creator of [...]
Herding Code 54: Rob Conery interviews the Herding Code guys
7/18/2009
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Let’s keep the party going! In this very special episode of Herding Code, Rob Conery puts Jon, Scott K and Kevin on the spot as he turns the tables and asks his own questions and passes his own judgments. Do you want to know how Herding Code came about? Are you curious how Rob and [...]
Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery
7/8/2009
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What? You thought SubSonic was dead! Well, crack open a beer and join the party – the SubSonic 3.0 Release Party!  That’s right. It is finally here and Rob Conery (Herding Code’s first repeat guest) gets a little rowdy announcing the new features.  Listen in as Rob speaks of SubSonic, the new role he’s playing [...]
Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues!
7/1/2009
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In this corner, Microsoft Developer Evangelist and author, G. Andrew Duthie. In the other corner, C# MVP, ASP Insider and Open Space Technology facilitator, Alan Stevens. This week, G. Andrew Duthie and Alan Stevens bring their recent “Real Software Development vs Microsoft Bubble Development” Twitter debate to Herding Code. It’s all the open and honest, [...]
Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD
6/26/2009
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This week the guys talk to Greg Young about what he calls “our greatest failure”. Greg talks about how we’ve failed our so completely that they now base their success on our always failing in the same way. He starts with your classic Hello World use-case, the common sex change Greg talks about how we’ve [...]
Herding Code 50: Damien Guard on LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and Fontography
6/19/2009
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This week the guys talk to Damien Guard, a developer working on LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. After discussing data access for a while, they talk about the programming font Damien publishes, Envy Code R. Damien assures us that LINQ To SQL is not at all dead and talks about some of the new [...]
Herding Code 49: Search with Bing and Wolfram Alpha
6/10/2009
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Have you binged, bunged or banged using Microsoft’s Bing? Any idea the type of questions you should feed Wolfram|Alpha? This week on Herding Code, the guys talk about “new search things that have happened upon the Intertubes.” Are you planning to catch the Google Wave? Hear the cast’s thoughts on Google Wave and much more [...]
Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010
5/30/2009
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This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Dustin Campbell about Visual Studio 2010 Beta’s "super exciting" programming, debugging and extensibility features and the F# May CTP. The show kicks off with Jon commenting about the evolution of Visual Studio. Dustin then takes us down memory lane sharing how Visual Studio has been torn [...]
Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC
5/13/2009
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This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Joe Brinkman, Co-founder and Technical Fellow at DotNetNuke Corporation, about the ASP.NET MVC vs. Webforms debate, open source development, recent advancements in DotNetNuke and how to improve our industry and the community as a whole. Joe explains that the Webforms vs. MVC debate boils down to [...]
Herding Code 46: Mistakes and News Recap
5/8/2009
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Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to learn from your own or, better yet, the mistakes of others!  This week, the guys amuse and educate by graciously sharing some of their past developer mistakes.  Hear tales of recursive website spidering, rogue mass emailers, and hardware snafus which end in puffs of smoke Learn from Jon [...]
Herding Code 45: Larry O’Brien on Domain Specific Languages
4/29/2009
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There’s a lot of community chatter around Domain Specific Languages (DSLs.)  If you’re interested in hearing more, you won’t want to miss this episode as this week on Herding Code the guys interview Larry O’Brien, professional writer and software developer, on Domain Specific Languages, DSL DevCon, Lang.NET Symposium and a number of related talks.  Larry [...]
Herding Code 44: Microbusiness
4/24/2009
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Whether you just want to write cool software for yourself or you are looking to kick off a side business, you can get started with little upfront investment. This week on Herding Code, the guys talk about the ease of becoming a one-man independent software vendor (ISV.) Scott K starts off the show with a [...]
Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC
4/17/2009
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This week on Herding Code, Kevin leads a conversation with Javier Lozano on ASP.NET MVC and the Model View Controller (MVC), Model View Presenter (MVP), Model View ViewModel (MVVM) and Model Model View Controller (MMVC) patterns. The guys discuss the various patterns as they relate to ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF and dig into the [...]
Episode 42: Scott Bellware on BDD and Lean Development
4/8/2009
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This week on Herding Code, Scott Bellware educates and entertain as only he can. Scott talks about Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD) and Lean Software Development, gets “all preachy” and donates to the show a nearly endless batch of outtakes.  Hear the REAL last word about TDD.  You know it is more [...]
Episode 41: Next Generation Twitter Client Discussion At MIX09
4/3/2009
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While at MIX09, Jon sat in on a brainstorming discussion about next generation Twitter clients running on WPF and Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer, Chris Bennage, and Alan Le. This was originally just recorded for a few people who couldn’t be there for our meeting, but we had enough positive feedback that we’re publishing it [...]
Episode 40: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 and RIA Services
4/1/2009
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This week on Herding Code, the full cast talks to Shawn Wildermuth about Silverlight 3 and RIA Services:  Shawn talks about shared code, validation rules logic and general line of business application development with RIA Service and the guys become skeptically about RIA Service’s good and bad magic. Kevin’s draggy-droppy spidey senses kick in and [...]
Episode 39: Scott C. Reynolds on Mac and iPhone Development
3/25/2009
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This week on Herding Code, Jon, K Scott, Scott K and Kevin talk about Mac/iPhone development with .NET and Ruby developer Scott C. Reynolds. Show Links: Scott C. Reynold’s blogs – http://scottcreynolds.com, http://lostechies.com/blogs/scottcreynolds Scott C. Reynold’s on Twitter – http://twitter.com/scottcreynolds Apple Developer Connection – http://developer.apple.com/ Mac Developer Program – http://developer.apple.com/products/mac/program/ iPhone Developer Program – http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ [...]
Episode 38: NHibernate performance with Ayende, David Penton, and Ben Scheirman
3/13/2009
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While K Scott and Jon were at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit, we listened in on a late night debate on NHibernate performance between Oren Eini (a.k.a. Ayende Rahein), David Penton, and Ben Scheirman. Show Links: NHibernate – http://nhforge.org Ayende’s blog – http://ayende.com David Penton’s blog – http://pentonizer.com Ben Scheirman’s blog – http://flux88.com  Download / [...]
Episode 37: Jon Udell
3/7/2009
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This week on Herding Code, Jon leads a talk with Microsoft Technical Evangelist Jon Udell, about strategies for Internet citizens. That is, making public information available for retrieval and manipulation through structured data feeds and Internet standards.  The group discusses related topics like digital identity and OpenID and shares their thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, dynamic [...]
Episode 36: Scott Watermasysk
2/20/2009
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This week, the Herding Code cast talks shop with Scott Watermasysk about cloud computing, blogging platforms, Internet Explorer, the DotNetOpenId project and much more: Scott W, Scott K and Jon discuss Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. Jon asks Scott W to share his thoughts on blogging platforms and the difficulties around their [...]
Episode 35: Fun at work
2/15/2009
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This week on Herding Code, K. Scott kicks off an amusing conversation about office pranks and general fun in the workplace: Jon explains why you might send goat pictures to your coworkers. Kevin comments about the hazards of new carpet installation. K. Scott talks about making an HP Printer come to life. And learn why [...]
Episode 34: *Chirp and Witty – WPF Twitter Clients
2/6/2009
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This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin and Scott K discuss *Chirp (since renamed blu), Witty, Twitter usage, open source and WPF development: The guys review *Chirp, a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23. Scott compares *Chirp to Paris Hilton, Jon reminisces about old Simpsons episodes and Kevin shares that *Chirp is very pretty, nicely [...]
Episode 33: Intertube Inauguration and Questions From Listeners
1/30/2009
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This week Kevin leads a discussion about the inauguration on the web, then we field some questions from listeners. Topics Live inauguration video on Silverlight sites Photosynth picture of the inauguration whitehouse.gov on webforms – will Viewstate bring down the presidency? Armchair quarterbacking the whitehouse.gov site whitehouse.gov updates robots.txt And Twitter didn’t die! Question – [...]
Episode 32: Windows 7 First Impressions
1/18/2009
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This week Jon leads a discussion about our first impressions of Windows 7 Beta 1. Topics Previously bundled features are now distribued via Windows Live – good or bad? Is the Windows Live suite just a standardized crapware? Where’s our Photo Gallery? Windows Marketplace??? Missing an ISO Mounter The out of box experience Window docking [...]
Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC
1/13/2009
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This week we talk to Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller about the FubuMVC project.Topics What is FubuMVC? History of the project Built to take advantage of static typing Composition over inheritance Dependency injection tricks IFlattener<T> for JSONification Application of SOLID prinicples in FubuMVC and AltOxite View engines TextboxFor and no magic strings – advantages for [...]
Episode 30: Year-end wrapup
1/6/2009
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K Scott leads the discussion as we look back at 2008, and speculate wildly on what 2009 has to offer. Note: Scott K’s taking a podcasting break to change diapers and stuff. Looking back at 2008 Google Chrome Kevin’s new iPhone Kevin’s Firefox extension addiction Hulu IE8 – better than expected, but still a ways [...]
Episode 29: Miguel de Icaza (part 2)
12/15/2008
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This is the second half of our discussion with Miguel de Icaza about Mono, Moonlight, open source, and other fun stuff. Topics When re-implementing .NET, do you match re-implement known bugs? The test / regression system to maintain compatibility How do you support so many platforms What parts of Mono are written in managed code? [...]
Episode 28: Miguel de Icaza (part 1)
12/13/2008
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This week we talk with Miguel de Icaza about Mono, Moonlight, and other fun stuff. Topics Overview and update on Mono Mono’s roots as a tool for desktop applications on Gnome / Linux The need for a package manager in Windows Managed operating systems (like Microsoft Research Singularity) New areas of focus for Mono – [...]
Episode 27: What Every Web Developer Needs To Know
11/24/2008
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Kevin leads a discussion on what every web developer needs to know. Topics Javascript – language or toolkits? Does clean HTML matter? What are the tangible benefits? Working with designers who only speak Photoshop Basic usability Tools every web developer needs Progressive enhancement K. Scott introduces the Lightning Round Links Aggiorno – HTML refactoring tool [...]
Episode 26: Laurent Bugnion on WPF and Silverlight
11/14/2008
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Jon talks to Laurent Bugnion about WPF and Silverlight. Laurent’s an expert on WPF and Silverlight, and is the author of Silverlight 2 Unleashed. Topics Differences between WPF and Silverlight Thoughts on Silverlight offline Model-View-ViewModel pattern and applications in Blend WPF Disciples mailing list Why use WPF instead of Winforms Non-visual benefits of WPF and [...]
Episode 25: PDC 2008 Podcaster Roundtable with Deep Fried Bytes and StackOverflow (part 2)
11/7/2008
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While we were at the Microsoft PDC 2008 conference, we met up with the guys from the Deep Fried Bytes podcast as well as Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow, CodingHorror) for a podcaster roundtable. The first part of this discussion is over at Deep Fried Bytes (Episode 18). Download / Listen Herding Code 25: PDC 2008 Podcaster [...]
Episode 24: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 2)
11/4/2008
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This is the second half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics ModelBinders in ASP.NET MVC Lessons learned in building MVC (question from Brian Henderson) To what extent did the MVC team look at other frameworks like Monorail, Rails, Django, etc. Any new features for the 1.0 release? How [...]
Episode 23: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 1)
10/26/2008
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This is the first half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics The MVC Elevator Speech MVC and Codebehind files How MVC differs from Webforms How MVC changes your development process The difficulty in unit testing UI What’s the threshold for testing your programs? The File / New / [...]
Episode 22: Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer on the Silverlight 2 Release
10/16/2008
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This week we talk to Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer about the Silverlight 2 release. Topics What’s new? The releationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2 The Eclipse for Silverlight development The Open Specification Promise for XAML Progress on Mono / Moonlight The elevator speech on Silverlight How Silverlight fits in with AJAX Can Silverlight [...]
Episode 21: Real World Development
10/10/2008
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This week Jon leads a discussion of real world development. We talk about how our development practices in our jobs and personal projects match up with the way we’re “supposed to be” developing. Topics: What are the non-negotiable practices that we always use on any code we write? Jon isn’t always Test Driven. Does that [...]
Episode 20: Ted Leung on open source in the corporate world
10/3/2008
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This week we talk to Ted Leung. Ted works on dynamic languages and tools at Sun Microsystems and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. We discussed a variety of issues, including: Ted’s wild ride through Apple, Apache, the Open Source Application Foundation, and Sun How open source development can benefit software companies as well as [...]
Episode 19: Pajama Driven Development (working remote)
9/26/2008
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This week Scott K leads a discussion on remote work, remote access technologies, and synchronization software: What software and services help with remote development The joy of being your own network admin Source control implications (TFS, Subversion, GIT) The social tradeoff – fewer incidental conversations, more intentional conversations Remote access software Synchronization software Links GE [...]
Episode 18: Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming
9/19/2008
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This week Matt Podwysocki puts the fun in functional programming with a deep dive into F#. We’ve heard plenty of high level discussions of F# and functional programming lately, so we tried to dig into the gory details as much as possible: What is functional programming, and why should we care? Types of applications that [...]
Episode 17: Browser Roundup
9/11/2008
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This week Jon leads a discussion on the new crop of browsers: What’s new in Google Chrome Comparison of Javascript engines What does crazy-fast Javascript mean? Is Webkit taking over? Why’s Firefox sticking with Gecko? IE8 Compatibility Mode – Will it save us from IE6? Is it time for the IE team to try “File/New/Browser”? [...]
Episode 16: Interviewing Software Developers
9/5/2008
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This week Kevin leads a discussion on interviewing software developers: What interview styles we find effective What sort of questions actually help us evaluate a candidate Why API trivia and puzzle questions don’t work Hiring mistakes we’ve made based on errors in our interview style Why we don’t do very well when the tables are turned [...]
Episode 15: Chris Tavares on Unity, P&P, Rotor, MVC, and EntLib
8/29/2008
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This week we talk with Chris Tavares, a developer on the Microsoft patterns & practices team, where he was the lead developer on Unity. He is also a virtual member of the ASP.NET MVC team, helping to design the new framework. Back in the day, he helped test out the effect of reference counting on .NET [...]
Episode 14: Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) talks about StackOverflow
8/21/2008
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This week, we talk with Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) about his soon to be released developer Q&A site, StackOverflow.com. Links: CodingHorror.com (Jeff’s blog) The StackOverflow blog Robert Scoble’s post on StackOverflow (no, it didn’t make him cry) Jeff’s post about using OpenID on StackOverflow Download / Listen HerdingCode 14: Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com) talks about [...]
Episode 13: Back To Basics (but which ones?)
8/15/2008
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This week, we talk about the “back to basics” movement, which begs the question: what are the basics? Download / Listen HerdingCode 13: Back To Basics (but which ones?)
Episode 12: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (part 2)
8/8/2008
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This is the second half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Be sure to listen to part 1 first or Glenn’s crazytalk about MEF will spin your head around. Links: Glenn’s Prism posts – [...]
Episode 11: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (part 1)
8/1/2008
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This is the first half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Links: Glenn’s Prism posts – http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx Prism – www.microsoft.com/compositewpf Unity – http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity MEF – http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx MEF CTP – http://code.msdn.com/MEF Look for an article [...]
Episode 10: LINQ
7/23/2008
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K Scott leads us in a discussion of LINQ, including: What is it How introducing LINQ to .NET changed the framework LINQ Providers LINQ to XML LINQ to SQL – how it’s different from EF, tips and tricks, when to use it Links: LINQpad 3rd Party LINQ providers list on OakLeaf Systems blog LINQ to [...]
Episode 9: Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefront, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad
7/16/2008
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This week, we catch up with Rob Conery. Topics: SubSonic 2.1 Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky MVC Storefront – has it made Rob a TDD believer What else is Rob up to at Microsoft Links: Rob’s Blog SubSonic Download / Listen: Episode [...]
Episode 8: Virtual Machines
7/10/2008
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This week, we discuss the use of virtual machines in software development. Topics: Industry trends VMware vs. Virtual PC (and other virtualization technologies) Should you develop in a VM? VM Tips and tricks Links: Jeff (codinghorror) Atwood’s post on creating smaller virtual machines. Keeping clean and small virtual machines Invirtus vOptimizer Virtual Appliance Marketplace Internet [...]
Episode 7: Why Don’t Startups Run On Microsoft?
7/4/2008
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In this episode of Herding Code, we discuss the pro’s and con’s of building a startup on the Microsoft stack. We talk about a lot of issues: Licensing cost Availability and cost of developers Development environments and tools Relative costs of software vs. development time Thoughts on whether Microsoft should ship Visual Studio Express with [...]
Episode 6: Silverlight – Fad or Fab?
6/26/2008
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This week we argue discuss whether Silverlight is just another flavor of ActiveX, or if it’s here to stay. Listen / Download Herding Code 6: Silverlight – Fad Or Fab?
Episode 5: Firefox 3
6/19/2008
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Show #5 – Topics Firefox 3… that’s it Listen / Downlad Herding Code 5: Firefox 3 Release Announcements The Name, The Feed, etc. This is our last podcast hosting the audio on SkyDrive, I promise. I’d planned to take care of it last weekend and a family emergency… um… emerged. You can help! Please take [...]
Episode 4: iPhone v2 and K. Scott Allen’s report from TechEd 2008
6/13/2008
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Show #4 – Topics iPhone v2 announcments from WWDC TechEd 2008 recap by our roving reporter, K. Scott Allen Listen Herding Code 4: iPhoneV2, K Scott recaps TechEd 2008 Announcements The Name We’re closing in on a name (and thus a domain and a website and a real podcast feed, etc.). Here’s our current list, [...]
Episode 3: Should Developers Learn C? + TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements
6/5/2008
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Show #3 – Topics Should developers learn C? TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements Microsoft “Velocity” distributed caching solution Listen Herding Code 3: Should Developers Learn C? + TechEd 2008 Keynote Thanks for your patience (and great feedback) as we get our act together here. We’ve decided to make the content the top priority, and get the [...]
Episode 2: AJAX Frameworks
5/29/2008
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Last week I posted the first in a new podcast series with K. Scott Allen (a.k.a. OdeToCode), Scott Koon (a.k.a. LazyCoder), and Kevin Dente. We got some great feedback, but we decided to ignore it and continue the podcast. So here’s another one! But seriously, this one’s a lot shorter (too short?) and you’ll hopefully [...]
Episode 1: “Hello World” Edition
5/21/2008
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We’re starting up a technology round table podcast. By we, I mean: K. Scott Allen (a.k.a. OdeToCode) Scott Koon (a.k.a. Lazycoder) Kevin Dente Jon Galloway Our goal here is to provide you with some interesting discussions loosely centered around the world of development on the Microsoft platform. We’ve just finished our first show, and – [...]

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