Thursday, April 02, 2009
CodeCast Episode 15: Oslo and M with Paul Vick

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

Categories: 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, December 18, 2008
CodeCast Episode 7: Twitter, F#, WPF, Surface

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

• Foundations of F# on Amazon.com

Length: 39:59

Direct download: CodeCast_007.mp3 - Size: 37MB

Categories: F#, WPF, Surface, Twitter, DevConnections 2008, DevConnections

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
CodeCast Episode 6: PEX, Twitter, AJAX

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

Categories: PEX, Skype, Twitter, DevConnections, DevConnections 2008