Friday, February 26, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the non-NDA details of the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, WA, along with a discussion on how MVPs contribute to the community and how MVPs and the MVP Summit helps developers and users who aren’t MVPs. Also discussed is the recent news around Windows Phone 7 Series including some details and expectations of the developer story for the new mobile platform to be announced at the MIX10 in mid March.
Links
· Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
· Windows Mobile 7 Series
· Windows Phone Blog
Length: 01:04:09
Direct download: CodeCast_071.mp3 - Size: 59MB
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Monday, February 22, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy discusses the topic of Code Camp events with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher. While the discussion is about organizing and attending Code Camp events in general, the upcoming Seattle Code Camp is discussed as an example event. Code Camp is a type of community event where developers talk with-and learn from-fellow developers, free, and anyone is welcome to attend and speak. An original Code Camp organizer, Thom Robbins, wrote a six-point manifesto: Code Camps are (1) by and for the developer community; (2) always free; (3) community developed material; (4) no fluff - only code; (5) community ownership; and (6) never occur during working hours. Seattle Code Camp v5.0 - April 17-18, 2010 - Redmond, WA (Microsoft Commons center).
Links
· Seattle Code Camp (Apr 17-18) - http://seattle.codecamp.us
· Blog: http://seattle.codecamp.us/blog
· Twitter: @SeattleCodeCamp
Length: 31:08
Direct download: CodeCast_070.mp3 - Size: 29MB
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, lead developer at EPS Software, and primary host of the free weekly Virtual Brown Bag meetings online via Live Meeting. The idea of a brown bag meeting is simple: once a week, people bring their “brown bag lunch” to the conference room, and we share tips and tricks. In order to cater for that online, we’re starting a “virtual” brown bag meeting. The meetings are hosted by the Virtual ALT.NET website through LiveMeeting (one of the most important aspects of ALT.NET is “continuous improvement”. The weekly schedule is every Thursday at 12:00pm noon CT (1pmET/10amPT). Claudio discusses the history, recent activity, participation information, benefits, and future plans for the Virtual Brown Bag (VBB) meetings.
Guest
· Claudio Lassala - Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala, Band: http://DescentIntoMadness.com
Links
· Virtual Brown Bag (VBB): http://tinyurl.com/VirtualBrownBag
Length: 25:14
Direct download: CodeCast_069.mp3 - Size: 23MB
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger are joined by JB who is a software developer at EPS Software. JB talks about Convention over Configuration as a general theme, about creating applications so you only have to write the code that matters rather than a bunch of code to wire things up. Technology wise, its AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) with PostSharp, Prism, StructureMap, etc., but the idea that binds all these things together is Convention over Configuration.
Guest
· JB - Blog: http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/RookieOne
Links
· Convention over Configuration MSDN article by Jeremy Miller
· Prism / Composite WPF
· PostSharp
· StructureMap
· Fluent NHibernate
· Advanced WPF Workshop (Free Online Webinar) by JB (Feb 20 9:00am-1:00pm CT)
Length: 57:29
Direct download: CodeCast_068.mp3 - Size: 53MB
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Weston Hutchins, program manager on the Visual Studio Shell team (team responsible for the core IDE services and extensibility architecture as well as the overall look and feel of Visual Studio). Weston has worked extensively with the Ecosystem team during the Visual Studio 2010 product cycle to design the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager. In this episode, Weston gives a tour of the new IDE shell features of Visual Studio 2010 including the various components that are new, enhanced, WPF based, etc., as well as some cool tips as preparation for upgrading from VS 2008 to VS 2010.
Guest
· Weston Hutchins - Visual Studio Blog
Links
· Visual Studio developer center
· Visual Studio Extensibility developer center
· Visual Studio Gallery
Length: 46:14
Direct download: CodeCast_067.mp3 - Size: 42MB
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Monday, February 08, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short interview Claudio Lassala, a C# MVP, INETA Speaker, MCSD.NET, and Software Developer at EPS Software. Claudio gives an overview and discusses in depth the principles, practices, and benefits of using SOLID for .NET development.
Guest
· Claudio Lassala - Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala, Band: http://DescentIntoMadness.com
Links
· Virtual Brown Bag
· CODE: S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time
· Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
· Claudio on SOLID for the Virtual Alt.net: S1, S2, D
· SOLID series on DimeCasts
Length: 01:04:59
Direct download: CodeCast_066.mp3 - Size: 59MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: SOLID, .NET
Thursday, January 28, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss in depth the new Apple iPad for both consumers/users and developers/businesses. This special show includes a detailed conversation of all the key details (hardware and software) of the newly announced iPad, with discussions on how it relates to PC based tablets, slates, and netbooks. The chat also includes how iPad and relative PC based devices can be used by developers in various ways for productivity and education. Plus, how the iPad is both a competitor and complement to Kindle devices and Amazon Kindle eBooks, as well as developers publishing content via EPUB format. CODE Magazine is available electronically via Kindle format which also includes reading on a PC (Mac soon), iPhone, iPod Touch, and on iPad via the free Kindle app.
Links
· Apple iPad
· iLounge: First Look In Progress: Apple iPad
· EPUB
· CODE Magazine on Kindle store
· CodeCast Episode 48: iPhone Development for .NET Developers
Length: 01:24:00
Direct download: CodeCast_065.mp3 - Size: 77MB
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Friday, January 15, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chuck England who is a program manager on the Visual Studio platform team at Microsoft responsible for MSBuild. This in-depth technical and scenario discussion includes detailed information on how and why to use MSBuild, either with Visual Studio 2008 or with new added features in Visual Studio 2010. New MSBuild features in VS 2010 include: New object model, new scheduler, Visual C++ now supported under MSBuild, new language features.
Links
· Visual Studio Blog
· MSBuild Reference
· New Object Model
· C++ Support
· Inline Tasks
· Property Functions
· Before / After Targets
Length: 01:09:53
Direct download: CodeCast_064.mp3 - Size: 64MB
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Friday, January 08, 2010
In this special episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short summarize news, technologies, and products from 2009, then discuss predictions and new year resolutions for 2010.
Overall 2009 in review (Intro)
Windows 7 (14:10)
Expression and Visual Studio 2010 (22:10)
Tech industry news, Oracle buying Sun (24:57)
NUI (Natural User Interface) (28:56)
Digital content and readers (37:14)
Design UI, web, and client apps (41:39)
ASP.NET MVC (50:00)
Prism and MVVM pattern, RIA services (58:27)
Azure (59:18)
Virtualization (01:01:20)
Silverlight and WPF (01:05:31)
Bing (01:07:09)
Online multimedia (01:15:19)
Mobile devices and platforms (01:16:52)
Social media, content, and platforms (01:24:15)
2010 predictions (01:31:00)
New year resolutions, 2009 predictions review (01:37:29)
Length: 01:45:46
Direct download: CodeCast_063.mp3 - Size: 97MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - Comments (1)Categories: ASP.NET MVC, Azure, Bing, Dynamic Languages, eBooks, Expression, Extension Manager, Microsoft, Microsoft Platform, RIA Services, Silverlight, Twitter, Virtualization, Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Koenig, a developer evangelist for Microsoft in the Dallas, Texas offices. This is an in-depth discussion about the history, status, and roadmap for GiveCamp events in various cities. GiveCamp was an idea hatched by Chris a few years ago, and now there are many GiveCamp events organized around the country with expansion plans this year. GiveCamp is a weekend long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. Some events focus on a specific technology like Microsoft .NET using Visual Studio or Expression Web. But using other technologies is often a possibility such as using Graffiti, Sitefinity, DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Joomla, mojoPortal, Drupal, etc. The custom software created at GiveCamp could be a new website, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, Facebook page, a rich client or even a mobile application..This episode of CodeCast is educational for any developers or organizers considering volunteering to participate in and benefit from an upcoming GiveCamp event.
Guest
· Chris Koenig - Blog: http://chriskoenig.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChrisKoenig
Links
· GiveCamp: http://givecamp.org
· @GiveCamp: http://twitter.com/GiveCamp
Length: 62:15
Direct download: CodeCast_062.mp3 - Size: 57MB
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Microsoft RIA Services. RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Microsoft describes RIA Services as simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.
Links
· WCF RIA Services home on Silverlight.net
· Brad Abrams : What is .NET RIA Services?
· WCF RIA Services Code Gallery
· WCF RIA Services Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Length: 64:27
Direct download: CodeCast_061.mp3 - Size: 59MB
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, KenLevy interviews Chris Granger, program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft, working on the new VS IDE editor (WPF based). Chris goes in-depth on the new VS 2010 editor including many of the cool features native to the editor as well as under-the-hood extensions architecture using the Visual Studio SDK. With the new managed editor API extensions and WPF/XAML based UI, a new generation of source code editing capabilities will evolve with VS 2010.
Links
· MSDN Library - What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
· Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio
· Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com
· Visual Studio Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio
· VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor
· Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010
· VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx
· VS 2010 editor samples on CodePlex - http://editorsamples.codeplex.com
Length: 31:39
Direct download: CodeCast_060.mp3 - Size: 30MB
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To, senior program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft. This is a follow-up discussion enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for creating free and product based extensions. Also discussed is the new Extension Manager in VS 2010 for browsing (via WPF UI) and installing free VS extensions hosted on visualstudiogallery.com.
Guests
· Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto
Links
· Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio
· Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com
· Visual Studio Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio
· VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor
· Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010
· VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx
Length: 26:46
Direct download: CodeCast_059.mp3 - Size: 25MB
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kerby Kuykendall who is the lead site manager for msdn.com at Microsoft. The discussion includes recent msdn.com developer center UI updates, the latest msdn.com content/nav taxonomy, differences between msdn.com dev centers, strategy of pre-sales (microsoft.com) vs. post-sales (msdn.com) vs. beta/CTP sites vs Channel 9 vs asp.net/silverlight.net. Tips like viewing lite version of MSDN Library content, aggregated and community content, plans for updating msdn.com dev centers, where/how Silverlight is used, and what some roadmap details for msdn.com.
Guest
· Kerby Kuykendall - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kerby_kuykendall, Twitter: http://twitter.com/kerbyk
Links
· http://msdn.com
Length: 46:03
Direct download: CodeCast_058.mp3 - Size: 42MB
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss a short re-cap of the recent DevConnections and PDF conferences, and talk in depth about using Expression with Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight development, including the upcoming update to Expression for Silverlight 4.
Links
· Microsoft Expression – http://microsoft.com/expression
· Microsoft PDC videos online - http://microsoftpdc.com/videos
Length: 54:26
Direct download: CodeCast_057.mp3 - Size: 50MB
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Friday, December 04, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the msdn.com team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of videos (How-Do-I videos, screencasts, etc) hosted on msdn.com dev centers and TechNet sites, how they relate to Channel 9 videos that also use Silverlight, various formats, and roadmap plans for 2010 with videos on msdn.com.
Guest
· Jeremy Kelley – Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik
Links
· http://msdn.com
· TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com
Length: 42:04
Direct download: CodeCast_056.mp3 - Size: 39MB
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Monday, November 30, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short summarize TechEd Europe 2009, and discuss in depth the recent announcements of upcoming features included in Silverlight 4 and new scenarios it will open up for developers. Some of the new features coming in Silverlight 4 include extended out of browser functionality, offline DRM, elevated trust applications, group policy file support, UAC client support, COM access, ActiveX support, DLL access, file access APIs, cross-domain, and web browser HTML control with plug-ins. The discussion on Silverlight 4 segment starts at minute marker 15:22.
Links
· Silverlight 4 Beta - http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta
· TechEd Europe 2009 - http://www.microsoft.com/europe/TechEd
Length: 35:43
Direct download: CodeCast_055.mp3 - Size: 33MB
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss the various Microsoft news and announcements from PDC 2009. Videos of conference keynotes and sessions are online at http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos.
Links
· Microsoft PDC - http://microsoftpdc.com
Length: 44:27
Direct download: CodeCast_054.mp3 - Size: 41MB
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kevin McNeish on the topics of using UML for both team and individual .NET developers, as well as many key highlights of what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 (including new support for UML).
Guest
· Kevin McNeish - http://oakleafsd.com
Links
· Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio
Length: 54:54
Direct download: CodeCast_053.mp3 - Size: 50MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: UML, Visual Studio 2010
Thursday, November 05, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss in-depth many new features and tips on functionality in Windows 7 for developers using and programming with Windows 7.
Links
· Windows Developer Center – http://msdn.com/windows
· Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
Length: 63:36
Direct download: CodeCast_052.mp3 - Size: 58MB
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Friday, October 30, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Mike Yeager of EPS Software. Mike is responsible for overall operations and project management at the Houston offices (EPS U.S.) and discusses the end to end aspects of software project management from proposals to working with clients to managing a software team to keeping developers up with new and evolving technologies.
Guest
· Mike Yeager - Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeYeager
Links
· http://eps-software.com
· http://codemag.com/training
Length: 52:21
Direct download: CodeCast_051.mp3 - Size: 48MB
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Doug Seven, senior product manager at Microsoft, on the recent news and announcements for the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 download along with the changes for both Visual Studio Product SKUs and MSDN Subscription levels for next year.
Guest
· Doug Seven – Blog: http://www.dougseven.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/dseven
Links
· Visual Studio 2010 – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio
Length: 43:35
Direct download: CodeCast_050.mp3 - Size: 40MB
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the benefits, productivity, scenarios, and tools in using code templates and refactoring in Visual Studio development.
Links
· Code Snippet Editor - http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor
· CodeRush, CodeRush Xpress, and Refactor - http://devexpress.com
Length: 51:50
Direct download: CodeCast_049.mp3 - Size: 47MB
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss in depth an overview of iPhone and iPod Touch development: getting started, perquisites, Xcode, Cocoa framework, Objective C, MonoTouch, and other related topics such as submitting apps to the Apple iTunes application store.
Links
· Apple Developer Connection - http://developer.apple.com
· iPhone Development Training for .NET developers, Oct 29-30 in Houston or via GoToMeeting – http://codemag.com/training
Length: 75:03
Direct download: CodeCast_048.mp3 - Size: 69MB
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Walt Ritscher discussing WPF, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Surface, and other related topics.
Guest
· Walt Ritscher - Blog: http://blog.waltritscher.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/WaltRitscher
Links
· Shazzam - http://shazzam-tool.com
· Programming WPF
· Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .Net 3.5
· Pro WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.0
· Expression Blend
· Microsoft WPF and Windows Forms Site
Length: 55:17
Direct download: CodeCast_047.mp3 - Size: 51MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: WPF, Silverlight, Expression, Surface
Thursday, September 17, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the various technology topics expected be included at the upcoming Microsoft PDC 2009 conference in Los Angeles.
Links
· Microsoft PDC – http://microsoft.com/pdc
· PDC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PDC09
· CODE Training – http://codemag.com/training
· Markus Egger’s blog post: Developer/Contractor Work and Training Opportunity at EPS/CODE
Length: 55:34
Direct download: CodeCast_046.mp3 - Size: 51MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Microsoft Platform, PDC 2009, CODE Training
Monday, September 14, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss web development constraints of CSS, HTML and upcoming HTML 5. In the brief tech news segment, the topics include recent Apple announcements including the new iPhone/iPodTouch OS 3.1 firmware and iTunes 9 update.
Links
· HTML 5 draft – http://w3.org/TR/html5
· HTML 5 demos- http://html5demos.com
Length: 48:06
Direct download: CodeCast_045.mp3 - Size: 44MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - Comments (1)Categories: CSS, HTML, Apple, iPhone, iPod, iTunes
Thursday, September 10, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Brian Randell on Windows virtualization using Microsoft Virtual PC (VPC), Windows Virtual PC (WVPC), and Hyper-V. VMWare and virtualization of Windows on a Mac are topics also included in the discussion.
Guest
· Brian Randell: Blog: http://mcwtech.com/cs/brianr Twitter: http://twitter.com/BrianRandell
Links
· Microsoft Virtual PC – http://microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc
· Microsoft Virtualization: http://microsoft.com/virtualization
· Ben Armstrong’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy
Length: 51:33
Direct download: CodeCast_044.mp3 - Size: 46MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Virtual PC, Hyper-V, VMWare
Thursday, September 03, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss news on Apple, Zune HD, The Lost Symbol coming to eBook (same day as hardback), Windows phone 6.5, CODE and CODE Focus magazines on Kindle format, Xiine, upcoming new CODE Magazine website, and the latest issue of CODE magazine. Then in the main topic, an in-depth chat on real-time vs. cached search when using public search engines as well as when embedding search into an application like a website app.
Links
· CODE Magazine – http://codemag.com
· Kindle Books on amazon.com
· Advanced Twitter Search - http://search.twitter.com/advanced
Length: 65:08
Direct download: CodeCast_043.mp3 - Size: 60MB
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast has Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discussing project complexity on the Microsoft platform in comparison with tools and technologies on the LAMP stack. These days, there are a gazillion layers and technologies in development with database, data access, business objects, services, models, view models, controllers, views, WPF, Silverlight, JavaScrispt, HTML, AJAX, unit tests, integration tests, clouds, sync, and so on, and so on. All that to build a single app? Hardly anyone understands half those things. Are we all insane? Are the PHP guys right? Also discussed is the new Snow Leopard OS for Mac from Appke, eBook Reader news, publishing books and content on the Amazon Kindle eBook store, and the CODE Magazine coming soon to the Kindle eBook store.
Links
· Feedback and beta participation for digital eBook content for CODE Magazine – email: markus@code-magazone.com
Length: 67:01
Direct download: CodeCast_042.mp3 - Size: 61MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - Comments (1)Categories: Microsoft Platform, LAMP, CODE Magazine, Kindle, eBooks, Apple, Mac OS
Monday, August 24, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and interviews James Senior, Web Platform Evangelist at Microsoft. James discusses various news, products, and technologies for Windows Live for both users and developers, and various Live Services for customization and platform development.
Guest
· James Senior – Blog: http://jamessenior.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jsenior
Links
· Windows Live Essentials downloads – http://download.live.com
· Home for Windows Live – http://home.live.com
· Live Mesh – http://mesh.com
· Live Services developer center – http://dev.live.com
· Bing Developer – http://bing.com/developer
· Windows Live Feedback (partial list of various sites and services) – http://feedback.live.com
· @PDC09
Length: 27:03
Direct download: CodeCast_041.mp3 - Size: 25MB
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Friday, August 21, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss news around Windows Phone (formerly Windows Mobile), PowerBuilder 12 released by Sybase based on the free Visual Studio Shell runtime, Apple related news, GPS apps for iPhones, eBook reader content, and recent Windows Live Essentials updates. The main discussion topic is development methodologies such as agile.
Links
· Agile Manifesto – http://agilemanifesto.org
· Windows Live Essentials download – http://download.live.com
· iPhone Navigation App Comparison Chart
Length: 49:22
Direct download: CodeCast_040.mp3 - Size: 45MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Agile Development, Windows Live, Windows Phone, Apple, iPhone, eBooks
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sara Ford, “the” program manager for CodePlex at Microsoft. Sara discusses her past 8 years at Microsoft leading up to her current role on the CodePlex team, what’s new around CodePlex, how the CodePlex team uses agile development practices, prioritizing new features to CodePlex, and details on the CodePlex roadmap including high priority features. The chat concludes with Sara’s participation at recent and upcoming community conference event, and her MS Press book Microsoft Visual Studio Tips.
Guests
· Sara Ford – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford, Twitter: http://twitter.com/saraford
Links
· http://codeplex.com
· http://twitter.com/codeplex
· Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives
Length: 35:27
Direct download: CodeCast_039.mp3 - Size: 32MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: CodePlex, MS Press
Thursday, August 13, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short Topics have discussions including the recent major update to Xbox Live and trends around multi-touch applications. A major topic in the discussion is the release of Windows 7 including resources for developers around Win7. Another big topic in this episode is current technology and future trends around purchasing software electronically including examples such as Xbox Live, iPhone app store, digital games via Valve’s Steam. .
Links
· Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers
· Hanselman: Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
· August 2009 Xbox Live Update
Length: 64:17
Direct download: CodeCast_038.mp3 - Size: 58MB
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Monday, August 03, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short are joined by returning special guest host Rick Strahl. The primary discussion, starting at marker 22:48, is on ASP.NET MVC, including what it is, what it’s for, how it relates to ASP.NET web forms, and a chat about what’s new in the V2 preview version. News discussion topics include Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepping down from the Apple board of directors, the rumor around an Apple Tablet, Radio Shack stores re-branded to The Shack, upcoming Microsoft relate stores compared to Apple retail stores, and portable devices in general.
Guests
· Rick Strahl – Blog: http://west-wind.com/weblog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickStrahl
Links
· http://asp.net/mvc
· ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released
Length: 62:49
Direct download: CodeCast_037.mp3 - Size: 58MB
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short are joined by returning special guest Rick Strahl. Discussions include latest news for CODE Magazine, Chrome OS, cloud based apps and services, mini-notebooks, eBook readers and content, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, with industry news and forecasting on these various topics.
Guests
· Rick Strahl – Blog: http://west-wind.com/weblog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickStrahl
Links
· CODE Magazine: http://codemag.com
Length: 54:37
Direct download: CodeCast_036.mp3 - Size: 50MB
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Andrew Coates discussing fall TechEd in Australia and New Zealand, as well as how .NET developers can benefit getting to know people from their regional Microsoft field offices and technical evangelists.
Guests
· Andrew Coates - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat, Twitter: http://twitter.com/coatsy
Links
· TechEd Australia - http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public
· Find local Microsoft Evangelists in U.S. - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/bb905078.aspx
Length: 14:39
Direct download: CodeCast_035.mp3 - Size: 13MB
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn with an extended conversation on a variety of topics including the Microsoft Surface, upcoming Windows 7 multi-touch applications, iPhone SDK, WPF, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Windows SDK, natural interface UI/UX design, Twitter, and more.
Guests
· Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil
Links
· nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au
· http://surface.com
· http://twitter.com/MSSurface
Length: 61:00
Direct download: CodeCast_034.mp3 - Size: 56MB
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Monday, July 20, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss recent trips, latest CODE magazine issue, Silverlight 3, Expression Blend 3 RC, SketchFlow, and the early Office 2010 beta.
Hosts
· Ken Levy – Blog: http://mashupx.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/KenLevy
· Markus Egger – Blog: http://markusegger.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/MarkusEgger
Links
· Silverlight 3 – http://sliverlight.net
· Expression Center - http://expression.microsoft.com
· SketchFlow Overview
Length: 40:10
Direct download: CodeCast_033.mp3 - Size: 37MB
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Friday, July 17, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discussing Kindle and Sony eBook readers, upcoming Microsoft Zune HD, Visual Studio 2010 beta. Then in the guest interview, Ken interviews Luca Bolognese who is the group program manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio languages team. Luca talks about the roadmap for and co-evolution of VB, C#, and F# languages beyond Visual Studio 2010.
Guests
· Luca Bolognese- (@ 22:32) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabo
Links
· Channel 9: Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution - The Twain Shall Meet
Length: 54:02
Direct download: CodeCast_032.mp3 - Size: 49MB
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss summer news for developers. Topics discussed include event news, Google Wave, Apple news, Bing.com, and WolframAlpha.com.
Guests
· Ken Levy – Blog: http://mashupx.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/KenLevy
· Gary Short - Blog: http://garyshortblog.wordpress.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/GaryShort
Links
· Google Wave – http://wave.google.com
Length: 26:44
Direct download: CodeCast_031.mp3 - Size: 24MB
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Gary Short on the new CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB, a new free light version of CodeRush by DevExpress. CodeRush Xpress is available for Visual Studio 2008 including many editor, productivity, and refactoring features from the full version of CodeRush, with a new version being worked on for future release supporting Visual Studio 2010.
Guests
· Gary Short – Blog: http://garyshortblog.wordpress.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/GaryShort
Links
· CodeRush Xpress – http://devexpress.com/coderushxpress
Length: 31:15
Direct download: CodeCast_030.mp3 - Size: 29MB
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Alexandru Ghiondea who is a QA test engineer on the C# compiler team focused on the area of new dynamic language features in C# 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010). Alexandru discusses how the new dynamic features in C# 4.0 relates to dynamic features of VB, how C# 4.0 will improve areas such as COM programming support (dynamic methods, late binding of COM, etc)., and how C# 4.0 is improved interop with dynamic languages like IronPython and IronRuby,
Guests
· Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/alexghi
Links
· C# Developer Center: http://msdn.com/vcsharp
Length: 18:29
Direct download: CodeCast_029.mp3 - Size: 17MB
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sam Ng who is a developer on the C# compiler team at Microsoft, discussing processes for adding new features to the C# compiler and language, including new features coming in Visual Studio 2010.
Guests
· Sam Ng – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/samng
Links
· Channel 9: Inside C# 4.0: dynamic typing, optional parameters, covariance and contravariance
Length: 30:38
Direct download: CodeCast_028.mp3 - Size: 28MB
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Noah Coad who is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team. Noah is working on bringing various VS IDE UI components into WPF for VS 2010, and discusses his efforts on the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE including the cool new customizable and extensible WPF/XAML based Start Page.
Guests
· Noah Coad - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc, Twitter: http://twitter.com/noahcoad
Links
· Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization
Length: 12:45
Direct download: CodeCast_027.mp3 - Size: 12MB
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jimmy Schementi who is a program manager on the IronRuby team at Microsoft. Jimmy discusses his role on the IronRuby team, how IronRuby relates to Microsoft’s other .NET program languages, scenarios for using IronRuby, and Microsoft’s roadmap for IronRuby.
Guests
· Jimmy Schementi – Blog: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jschementi
Links
· IronRuby homepage: http://ironruby.net
· Jimmy Schementi on Channel 9: Inside IronRuby
Length: 42:08
Direct download: CodeCast_026.mp3 - Size: 39MB
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Eric Lippert who is a senior software design engineer at Microsoft. Eric has been working at Microsoft on developer tools and languages since 1996, and has assisted with the design and implementation of VBScript, JScript, JScript .NET, Windows Script Host, Visual Studio Tools for Office and C#.
Some of the many questions and topics Eric discusses include: What forces influence language designers when (1) choosing what features go into a language and (2) deciding how those features are exposed to the user? Why is LINQ syntax structured they way it is relative to standard SQL? How does the C# compiler functionality reflect how C# programming is thought of and designed? What process does Microsoft use in general to decide what goes into the next major release of the languages?
Guests
· Eric Lippert – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert
Links
· Eric Lippert on Channel 9
Length:43:34
Direct download: CodeCast_025.mp3 - Size: 40MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Languages, LINQ, SQL Server, C#, Channel 9
Thursday, May 28, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the MSDN Forums team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of MSDN forums, the msdn.com dev centers, developer feedback, and other community related topics for developers on the Microsoft platform.
Guests
· Jeremy Kelley – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik
Links
· MSDN Forums: http://forums.msdn.com
Length: 24:25
Direct download: CodeCast_024.mp3 - Size: 22MB
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To and Anthony Cangialosi of the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft. The discussion goes into new details about the Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 and the enhancements to the Visual Studio Gallery (http://visualstudiogallery.com) to allow hosting extensions online allowing them to be installed from within the VS IDE. Also discussed, enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio SDK for creating free and product based extensions.
Guests
· Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto
· Anthony Cangialosi – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acangialosi, Twitter: http://twitter.com/acangialosi
Links
· Visual Studio Gallery – http://visualstudiogallery.com
· VSX Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam
· VSX on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSX
Length: 34:49
Direct download: CodeCast_023.mp3 - Size: 32MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Visual Studio Gallery, VSX, Visual Studio
Thursday, May 14, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Smith from Microsoft’s F# language team on F#, functional programming, his new F# book, F# for VS 2008, upcoming F# inclusion in VS 2010, and why F# is useful to C# and VB developers.
Guests
· Chris Smith – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith, Twitter: http://twitter.com/aChrisSmith
Links
· Programming F# by Chris Smith
· F# Developer Center – http://msdn.com/fsharp
Length: 28:21
Direct download: CodeCast_022.mp3 - Size: 26MB
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Ken Levy interviews Ted Neward in an in-depth 71 minute discussion around the impact of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems and how it relates to Java, MySQL, Microsoft, .NET programming languages, IBM, and other companies and topics related in the IT world.
Guests
· Ted Neward (@ 27:28) – Blog: http://blogs.tedneward.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/TedNeward
Length: 01:12:28
Direct download: CodeCast_021.mp3 - Size: 66MB
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Expression and XAML, and tech/gadget talk on the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS and the upcoming ZuneHD. The show interview is Ken interviewing Beth Massi, Microsoft, program manager on Microsoft’s BizApps team in the VS group. Beth discusses her work over the past two years at Microsoft on the VB team and now on the BizApps team, and chat about some cool new features and content in Visual Studio 2010.
Topics
· Beth Massi (@ 27:28) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi
Links
· VB Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam
· VB Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vbasic
· VSTO Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vsto
· Beth Massi on Channel 9
Length: 42:00
Direct download: CodeCast_020.mp3 - Size: 38MB
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss event news (including DevTeach), tech news (Oracle/Sun merger), and an in-depth chat about WPF and Silverlight. The interview for this show includes Ken Levy chatting with Constanze Roman, community PM for the Windows Mobile DevX team, discussing content and community for Windows Mobile developers.
Topics
· Constance Roman (@ 35:18) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/croman, Twitter: http://twitter.com/stanzikratel
Links
· Windows Mobile Developer Portal – http://developer.windowsmobile.com
· Windows Mobile Dev Center – http://msdn.com/windowsmobile
· Windows Mobile Dev Team on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wmdev
· DevTeach – http://devteach.com (June 8-12, Vancouver CA)
Length: 49:45
Direct download: CodeCast_019.mp3 - Size: 46MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - Comments (1)Categories: Windows Mobile, WPF, Silverlight
Thursday, April 23, 2009
This episode includes Ken Levy interviewing Microsoft’s IronPython program manager Harry Pierson, a part 2 from CodeCast #13. This is an extended in depth discussion with Harry giving examples of how dynamic languages are useful to any VB or C# developer, and how the next version of VS (version 2010) will include new features for integrating dynamic language programming within a VB or C# project.
Topics
· Harry Pierson – Blog: http://devhawk.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/devhawk
Links
· IronPython Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython (includes DLR resource and download links)
· IronPython Studio - http://codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio
· CODE Magazine article – Introducing IronPython by Harry Pierson
Length: 37:37
Direct download: CodeCast_018.mp3 - Size: 34MB
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
This episode includes Ken Levy with a part 2 interview with Microsoft’s VB community program manager Lisa Feigenbaum. Lisa discusses many of the cool new features coming in the VB 2010 language and compiler, and some new VS 2010 IDE features. Also discussed is VB within Microsoft’s family of various .NET programming languages.
Topics
· Lisa Feigenbaum – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam, Twitter: http://twitter.com/lisafeig, Email: Lisa.Feigenbaum@microsoft.com
Links
· VB Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vbasic
· VB 2010 preview document: http://code.msdn.com/vbfuture
· VB Forums on MSDN: VB Support page
Length: 25:05
Direct download: CodeCast_017.mp3 - Size: 23MB
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short talk in depth about Microsoft’s MVP Program, plus what’s new with CODE Magazine branding and production including plans for the Kindle format publication. In tech and gadget news, the hosts discuss Skype for iPhone and Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile marketplace plans. In this shows interview, Ken Levy interviews Microsoft’s Ed Hickey, community program manager for the Connected Systems Customer Experience team, discussing his past role in the MVP program and his new current role working with the Connect Systems community.
Topics
· Ed Hickey (@ 30:11)
Links
· Connected Systems Dev Centers – http://msdn.com/wcf, http://msdn.com/wf, http://msdn.com/biztalk, http://msdn.com/oslo
· Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
· Channel 9 videos on MVP Program: Toby Richards, archive: Sean O'Driscoll
· Video: CODE Magazine Redesign
· Microsoft Case Study on EPS, video: EPS Case Study
· Houston Channel 39 News Video on EPS and Surface
Length: 49:36
Direct download: CodeCast_016.mp3 - Size: 45MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: MVP, CODE Magazine, Kindle, Skype, iPhone, iPod, Windows Mobile, Connected Systems, EPS
Thursday, April 02, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss recent event news (MIX09 and DevConnections) and upcoming events (TechEd and PDC). Also discussed is news around Silverlight, Expression Blend, ASP.NET MVC, and IE 8.0. Then Ken Levy interviews Paul Vick (developer and architect at Microsoft). Paul discusses his history at Microsoft working on the Access and VB teams, and also chats about DSLs and the modeling language M in his new role on the Oslo team.
Topics
· Paul Vick (@ 21:52) – Blog: http://panopticoncentral.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/paulvick
Links
· MIX09 Videos - http://videos.visitmix.com
· IE8 CODE Focus Magazine – http://code-magazine.com/focus
· Oslo developer center – http://msdn.com/oslo
Length: 38:13
Direct download: CodeCast_015.mp3 - Size: 35MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: MIX, MIX 09, DevConnections, DevConnections 2009, TechEd, TechEd 2009, PDC, PDC 2009, Events, Silverlight, Expression Blend, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, Internet Explorer, DSL, M, Oslo
Thursday, March 19, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Lori Dirks, community program manager at Microsoft on Expression team, and another interview with Laurie Moloney who is a site manager on Microsoft’s MSDN.com website team. These interviews include news, strategy, and other topics related to the Expression and MSDN developer/designer center websites.
Topics
· Lori Dirk (@ 2:16) – http://expression.microsoft.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/msexpression
· Laurie Moloney (@ 14:28) – http://msdn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauriemol
Links
· MIX09 Videos - http://videos.visitmix.com
· Microsoft Virtual TechDays – http://www.msfttechdays.com (Online, April 1, 2009)
Length: 26:37
Direct download: CodeCast_014.mp3 - Size: 24MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: MSDN, Expression Studio, Expression Blend, MIX, MIX 09, TechDays, Event
Thursday, March 05, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss upcoming developer event news and dynamic languages. This show’s interview is with Ken discussing IronPython with Harry Pierson, a program manager on Microsoft’s dynamic languages team.
Topics
· Harry Pierson (@ 13:50) – Blog: http://devhawk.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/devhawk
Links
· TechEd 2009 – http://msteched.com (L.A., May 11-15, 2009)
· DevTeach – http://devteach.com (Vancouver, June 8-12, 2009)
· IronPython Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython (includes DLR resource and download links)
· IronPython Studio - http://codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio
· CODE Magazine article – Introducing IronPython by Harry Pierson
Length: 33:45
Direct download: CodeCast_013.mp3 - Size: 31MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: Dynamic Languages, IronPython, TechEd, TechEd 2009, CODE Magazine
Thursday, February 19, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Internet Explorer 8, Windows 7 beta, Kindle and Sony eBook readers, and Visual Studio 2010. Ken has two in-depth interviews on the topic of Visual Basic, .NET languages, and the VB community. The first interview is with VB community program manager Lisa Feigenbaum and the second is with VB program manager Dustin Campbell.
Topics
· Lisa Feigenbaum (@ 20:32) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam, Twitter: http://twitter.com/lisafeig
· Dustin Campbell (@ 35:15) – Blog: http://diditwith.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/dcampbell
Links
· IE8 issue of CODE Focus magazine – http://code-magazine.com/focus
· Internet Explorer 8 – http://microsoft.com/ie
· Windows Live Essentials - http://download.live.com
· Amazon Kindle – http://amazon.com/kindle
Length: 50:07
Direct download: CodeCast_012.mp3 - Size: 46MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - Comments (4)Categories: Windows 7, Windows, Internet Explorer, Sony Reader, Kindle, Visual Basic, CODE Focus, Live
Monday, February 02, 2009
In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger has two in-depth discussions with Rick Strahl, one on REST and the other on jQuery.
Topics
· REST (@ 0:27) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
· jQuery (@ 11:26) – http://jquery.com
Links
· Rick Strahl’s Blog – http://west-wind.com/weblog
Length: 22:37
Direct download: CodeCast_011.mp3 - Size: 21MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: REST, jQuery, ASP.NET, AJAX
Thursday, January 22, 2009
This is a special episode where some of the co-hosts are actually the ones being interviewed. Hosts are Ken Levy, Markus Egger, Gary Short, and Rick Strahl. With our co-host Gary Short being a technical evangelist for DevExpress (DX) and the other co-hosts familiar with the DX tools, we decided to do a show dedicated to the topic.
Topics
· CodeRush
· Refactor!
· DXCore
Links
· DevExpress – http://devexpress.com
Length: 35:00
Direct download: CodeCast_010.mp3 - Size: 32MB
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Our special 2008 year in review episode with hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger, joined by special guest co-host Rick Strahl of West Wind Technologies.
Topics
· Visual Studio (@ 2:37)
· Languages (@ 6:28)
· SQL Server (@ 10:15)
· Windows (@ 12:57)
· WPF/Silverlight (@ 18:10)
· SOA/WCF (@ 24:56)
· IIS/ASP.NET (@ 29:55)
· VSX (@ 36:07)
· Tablet/Touch/Surface (@ 40:20)
· Mobile (@ 43:07)
· Browsers (@ 51:14)
· Social Networking/Media and Web 2.0 (@ 59:02)
· The "one big thing" in 2008 discussion (@ 1:05:57)
· Our 2009 new year's resolutions for business discussion (@ 1:08:24)
Links
· CoDe Magazine – http://codemag.com
Length: 1:12:52
Direct download: CodeCast_009.mp3 - Size: 67MB
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Our 8th episode of CodeCast is our special 2008 holiday show. Host Ken Levy interviews Rod Paddock, Editor-In-Chief of CODE Magazine.
Interview
· Rod Paddock (@ 00:27): Rod Paddock - http://dashpoint.com
News and gadget links
· CODE Magazine – http://codemag.com
· CODE Focus – http://codemag.com/focus/
· Xiine – http://xiine.com
Length: 24:31
Direct download: CodeCast_008.mp3 - Size: 22MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: CODE Magazine, CODE Focus, Xiine
Thursday, December 18, 2008
In episode 7, co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short join Ken Levy discussion news, programming languages increasing in usage such as F#, and using Twitter within a business environment. This episode interview iclues Markus Egger interviewing Tim Huckaby from VS DevConnections 2008 discussing WPF and the Microsoft Surface.
Interview
· Tim Huckaby (@ 29:27): Tim Huckaby
News and gadget links
· F# - http://msdn.com/fsharp
· Twitter
Book Links
Length: 39:59
Direct download: CodeCast_007.mp3 - Size: 37MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: F#, WPF, Surface, Twitter, DevConnections 2008, DevConnections
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
In this show, hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the new PEX from Microsoft Research followed by an in-depth discussion on Twitter (part 1 of 2). This episode interview is with Dino Esposito in a discussion with host Markus Egger, recorded at VS DevConnections 2008 in Las Vegas.
Interview
· Dino Esposito (@ 27:06): Dino Esposito’s Blog
News and gadget links
· PEX
· Netgear SPH200W WiFi Phone with Skype
· Sandisk SD Plus USB
· Twitter
Length: 33:45
Direct download: CodeCast_006.mp3 - Size: 31MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: PEX, Skype, Twitter, DevConnections, DevConnections 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
This 5th episode of CodeCast includes host Ken Levy with a new segment on news and gadgets, and three interviews all related to VSX and VSIP (Visual Studio Extensibility and Visual Studio Industry Partners). Interviews are with Microsoft and with two different Microsoft partners who are VSIP members. Missing from this show are co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short who where both at various conferences and other travel.
Interviews
· Terry Clancy (@ 9:19) http://msdn.com/vsx, http://msdn.com/vsip, http://visualstudiogallery.com/
· Federico Zoufaly (@ 18:44): Aggiorno
· Alan Sheed (@ 25:00): DBI-Technologies
News and Gadget links
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
· Live Search SDK, http://dev.live.com
· Windows Live Agents 5.1
· Microsoft .NET Services SDK
· Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview
· Microsoft Surface Data Sheet
· Microsoft Store
· Safari Books Online
· Microsoft Downloads
· Microsoft Download (Silverlight beta version)
· Zune Client 3.1
· Zune Pass
There is no exit music from a community band in this episode but we will include more in random future episodes as it becomes available to us. We are working on improvements to the audio recordings both in studio and with interviews. These interviews were all recording at PDC, and we have improved our recording techniques since then for interviews. We will try to keep each show at around 30 minutes each like this one. episode 7 we should be out of what we might consider CodeCast beta mode. J
Length: 30:27
Direct download: CodeCast_005.mp3 - Size: 28MB
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss the new State of .NET events, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, followed by an interview from PDC with two editors from O'Reilly Media. More on ASP.NET MVC can be found at http://asp.net/mvc.
The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Two Bit Thief, song is City Boys - http://west-wind.com/music/Two%20Bit%20Thief/.
Length: 38:18
Direct download: CodeCast_004.mp3 - Size: 35MB
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
In this third CodeCast show, hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss a quick final summary of PDC 2008, then introduce a series of interviews with folks from Microsoft interviewed at PDC:
The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust, song is No Privacy - http://west-wind.com/music/anti-trust/
Length: 42:24
Direct download: CodeCast_003.mp3 - Size: 39MB
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
In our second episode of CodeCast we have Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger report live from Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles, October 27-30. This show is about 30 minutes and broken into 3 discussion segments discussion the various news and buzz at this year's Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference).
This show exits with music from the community: Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust with a song called Day By Day. http://www.west-wind.com/music/Anti-Trust/.
Upcoming CodeCast episodes will include various additional PDC interviews with Microsoft employees, Microsoft partners, and community members.
Sessions from PDC are all online at http://microsoft.com/pdc. The next PDC has been announced for next year in L.A. again, November 17-20 2009.
Length: 31:48
Direct download: CodeCast_002.mp3 - Size: 29MB
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Welcome to the CodeCast, the Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger.
This episode introduces the podcast, the hosts, CoDe Magazine, as well as previews the upcoming PDC 2008 (Microsoft Professional Developer Conference) and several of the technologies expected to make an appearance at the event.
Links for references made in the show:
- Microsoft Surface video referenced in episode 1: http://snurl.com/4j9jv
- Xiine URL as referenced in the show: www.Xiine.com
For the special CoDe Magazine subscription offer mentioned in the show, click here.
Direct download: CodeCast_001.mp3 - Size: 41MB
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