Talking Shop Down Under

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  Episode 79 - Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar

  12/12/2011

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  Live from YOW! 2011 in Melbourne, Richard talks with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar about getting extreme performance from .NET code and some of the things to think about when you're trying to wring the very last drop of performance from your CPUs Enjoy! Links: Patrick Cooney Joel Pobar - @joelpob Duration 35:27 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 78 - Eric Evans on the Birth of DDD

  12/4/2011

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  Live from YOW! 2011 in Melbourne, Richard talks with Eric Evans about the birth of Domain Driven Design and his thoughts on the various modelling tools available for software developers. Enjoy! Links: Domain Driven Design Eric Evans - @ericevans0 Duration 36:37 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 77 - Code Reviews FTW

  11/21/2011

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  Code Reviews, for the WIN!! Richard talks with Justin Taylor (aka JT) and Mark Derricutt about code reviews, how to make them work, what to look for and why we need them. Enjoy! Links: Justin Taylor - @jtango18 Mark Derricutt - @talios Git Git-Flow Gerrit Code Review Illegal Argument podcast Duration 28:57 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 76 - John Bristowe and Kendo UI

  11/13/2011

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  John Bristowe, recently returned to Australia, talks with Richard about Telerik's Kendo UI Enjoy! Links: John Bristowe - @johnbristowe Kendo UI Duration 34:06 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 75 - Sailing With This Ship of Tools

  11/7/2011

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  Richard Banks talks with Aaron Powell, Damian Maclennan and Philip Laureano about the tools they have in their developers toolbox. There should be something useful in here for everyone. Enjoy! Links: Aaron Powell - @slace Damian Maclennan - @damianm Philip Laureano - @philiplaureano Ship of Fools Image Resizer JavaScript Editor Extensions for VS2010 Sublime Text ViEmu for Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools CodeRush ReSharper Convert spaces to underscores in test names #Region Extension for VS2010 KnockoutJs (also available on NuGet) Chandler Project NCrunch ContinuousTests (aka Mighty Moose) Giles Continuous Testing Nemerle Twitter Bootstrap HTML5 Boiler Plate normalize.css Less CSS CoffeeScript CSS CoffeeKup Jade Duration 39:30 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 74 - Mahesh Krishnan on Azure

  10/31/2011

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  Mahesh Krishnan sits down and chats with Richard about Azure live at TechEd Australia Enjoy! Links: Mahesh Krishnan - @maheshkrishnan Duration 33:53 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 73 - Andrew Coates Lights it up

  10/25/2011

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  Richard talks with Andrew Coates about Visual Studio LightSwitch, what it means for proper developers and importantly, why they should care. Enjoy! Links: Andrew Coates - @coatsy Visual Studio LightSwitch Duration 32:01 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 72 - CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap

  10/10/2011

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  Richard Talks with Ben Gracewood and Ian Randall about the upcoming CodeMania conference in New Zealand and also their thoughts on Build and Windows 8 development Enjoy! Links: Ben Gracewood - @nzben Ian Randall - @kiwipom CodeMania Conference Australian Alt.Net OpenSpaces Duration 32:05 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 71 - Jake Ginnivan on the Intricacies of COM Interop and VSTO

  9/26/2011

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  Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Jake Ginnivan talks with Richard Banks about some of the intracacies of COM interop and VSTO, as then moves on to talking about an MVC framework for Windows Phone 7. Enjoy! Links: Jake Ginnivan - @JakeGinnivan VSTO Contrib COM Interop and VSTO explained Duration 34:15 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 70 - Jeff Wilcox and Window Phone 7 Performance Considerations

  9/20/2011

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  Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Jeff Wilcox talks with Chris Walshie and Richard Banks about Windows Phone 7 performance considerations, submitting apps to the marketplace, the silverlight toolkit and more. And yes, this is the episode where Richard forgets to press record the first time around. Doh! Enjoy! Links: Jeff Wilcox - @JeffWilcox Silverlight Toolkit AgFx Data Caching Framework 4th and Mayor Foursquare WP7 app Duration 30:24 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 69 - Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more

  9/11/2011

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  Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Richard Banks talks with Mitch Denny about BDD, Team Explorer Everywhere and moving your infrastructure to the cloud. Enjoy! Links: Mitch Denny - @MitchDenny Duration 30:39 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 68 - Thomas Lewis on CSS3, Web Fonts and IE10

  9/5/2011

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  Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Richard Banks talks with Thomas Lewis about Web Fonts, CSS3 layouts and media queries and also IE10. Enjoy! Links: Thomas Lewis - @tommylee Duration 34:53 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 67 - Sam Saffron and Performance Optimisation at StackOverflow

  8/22/2011

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  Sam Saffron talks to Richard Banks about the performance optimisation work he has done at Stack Overflow and the tools that have come out of that. Namely Dapper, a lightweight data access framework, and the MVC Mini Profiler. Sam also talks about the upcoming Stack Overflow DevDays in Sydney and some of the people coming to talk. As a note - there's a discount code for DevDays. Just enter "Saffron2011" to get a $100 discount. Thanks Sam! Enjoy! Links: Sam Saffron - @samsaffron Dapper Dot Net MVC Mini Profiler StackOverflow DevDays in Sydney, 2011 Duration 34:23 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 66 - A Chat About ALM

  8/15/2011

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  Alex Mackey contacted Richard for a chat about ALM and TFS and they decided to turn it into an episode instead. This is the result. Enjoy! Links: Alex Mackey - @alexjmackey Duration 33:23 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 65 - Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus

  8/7/2011

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  NServiceBus gets a lot of press for being a great message bus solution for application development, but it's also easy to get it wrong. Jim Pelletier talks with Richard Banks about the mistakes he's made implementing systems with it and also the lessons learned. Apologies for the quality of Richard's audio - there were some micropohone problems at his end during recording. Enjoy! Links: Jim Pelletier - @pjimmy NServiceBus Oz Alt.Net Duration 41:09 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 64 - Stewart Tansley and the Kinect SDK

  7/27/2011

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  Stewart Tansley talks with Richard about the Kinect SDK, some of it's features and some of the cool things people have been building with it. If you've got a Kinect then have a listen and see if you can't get some inspiraiton and build something for your most unique gadget. Update: Apologies for the editing fail. The audio files have been refreshed. Enjoy! Links: Stewart Tansley - @dswtan Kinect SDK Duration 37:11 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 63 - Lachlan Heasman on Project Management and Developers

  7/18/2011

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  Courtesy of a listener request, Lachlan Heasman talks about project managers, developers and how they need to work with each other. Enjoy! Could not load HTML5 audio. Please use the Silverlight Player below. Duration 34:41 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 62 - Craig Sharkie on JavaScript and IPTV Live From DDD Sydney 2011

  7/11/2011

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  Recorded Live at DDD Sydney 2011, Richard Banks talks with Craig Sharkie about all things JavaScript, a little IPTV, the SydJS user group and more. Enjoy! Craig Sharkie - @twalve SydJS Backbone.JS Node.JS Telstra on IPTV Could not load HTML5 audio. Please use the Silverlight Player below. Duration 29:41 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 61 - Malcolm Sheridan on Web Deploy Live From DDD Sydney 2011

  7/4/2011

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  Recorded Live at DDD Sydney, Malcolm Sheridan chats with Richard Banks about Microsoft's Web Deploy toolkit and also a little Fortran. Enjoy! Malcolm Sheridan - @malcolmsheridan Microsoft Web Deploy Web Platform Installer Could not load HTML5 audio. Please use the Silverlight Player below. Duration 35:33 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 60 - Continuous Delivery with Stephen Godbold

  6/28/2011

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  Stephen Godbold is leaving our fair shores and heading to the US, so what better way to remember him by than via this episode on Continuous Delivery! Enjoy! Stephen Godbold - @stevegodbold Continuous Delivery web site Could not load HTML5 audio. Please use the Silverlight Player below. Duration 34:46 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 59 - Moving to .NET

  6/20/2011

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  That's right, an episode about people moving onto the .NET platform. Richard Banks talks to Henry Sun and Brett Hirst, a couple of Progress developers who have recently made the move onto C#, about some of the issues and challenges they face(d) during the transition. Please note that the episode was recorded in a fairly noisy environment, so please forgive the background noise you'll no doubt hear. Enjoy! Duration 30:00 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 58 – Windows 8 Round Table

  6/5/2011

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  Windows 8 was announced just recently and this round table was recorded the day after with initial impressions and thoughts on the future for developers in a Windows 8 world. Guests on this episode are Jeremiah Morrill, Den Delimarksy, Patrick Klug and Scott Barnes. Things get a little opinionated and passionate at so please forgive some of the language. Enjoy! Links: Jeremiah Morrill - @jmorrill Den Delimarsky - @DennisCode Patrick Klug - @PatrickKlug Scott Barnes - @mossyblog First Windows 8 Video Live blog of Steven Sinofsky at D9 Duration 35:34 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 57 - Chris Walsh on Mango for WP7

  5/29/2011

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  Chris Walsh talks about the Mango update for Windows Phone 7 and also his phone unlocker utility and why it was pulled. Enjoy! Links: Chris Walsh - @ChrisWalshie Duration 30:55 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 56 - Riak with OJ Reeves

  5/22/2011

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  This is part 2 of in interview with OJ Reeves. Part 1 covered Erlang and part 2 moves on to Riak, a database built on top of the Erlang language. Enjoy! Links: OJ Reeves - @thecolonial Erlang Programming Language Riak Learn you Some Erlang Duration 26:42 mins | Download mp3

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  Episode 55 - Erlang with OJ Reeves

  5/17/2011

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  In an unintentional part 1 of a two part episode, OJ Reeves talks with Richard about Erlang and some of it's unique features. Enjoy! Links: OJ Reeves - @thecolonial Erlang Programming Language Duration 23:18 mins | Download mp3