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
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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
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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