Thursday, May 14, 2009
CodeCast Episode 22: F# with Chris Smith

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

Thursday, May 07, 2009
CodeCast Episode 21: .NET, Java, Oracle-Sun, New IT Cold War with Ted Neward

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

Tuesday, May 05, 2009
CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi

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

Thursday, April 30, 2009
CodeCast Episode 19: Windows Mobile Dev Community with Constanze Roman

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

Thursday, April 23, 2009
CodeCast Episode 18: IronPython and Dynamic Languages with Harry Pierson

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

Thursday, April 16, 2009
CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

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

Thursday, April 09, 2009
CodeCast Episode 16: MVPs and Connected Systems Community with Ed Hickey

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

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

Thursday, March 19, 2009
CodeCast Episode 14: Expression and MDSN Developer and Design Centers

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

Thursday, March 05, 2009
CodeCast Episode 13: IronPython and Dynamic Languages

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

Thursday, February 19, 2009
CodeCast Episode 12: Visual Basic and the VB Community

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

Monday, February 02, 2009
CodeCast Episode 11: REST and jQuery

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

Thursday, January 22, 2009
CodeCast Episode 10: DevExpress - CodeRush, Refactor!, and DXCore

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

Thursday, January 08, 2009
CodeCast Episode 9: 2008 Year in Review

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

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
CodeCast Episode 8: Rod Paddock - Editor-In-Chief of CoDe Magazine

Our 8^th 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

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

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

Thursday, November 27, 2008
CodeCast Episode 5: VSX, VSIP, Aggiorno, DBI-Tech Controls

This 5^th 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

Thursday, November 20, 2008
CodeCast news for late Fall 2008

Hey CodeCast listeners. While we haven’t posted a new CodeCast show here in a couple of weeks, we have two new episodes coming this week. While conferences, event travel, holidays, and other things that come up this time of year have delayed the release of our next episode, we expect to be on track for about one show per week after this week. Hopefully the down time has allowed people to catch up on our previous 4 episodes already online.

We are working on improving each episode, not only in content but also in audio recording quality. In the next couple of episodes, there will be some noticeable improvements in the audio recording quality as we learn and enhance our equipment and techniques especially with the co-host recordings.

Based on listener feedback, we will work on keeping each show right at about 30 minutes in length. We are not sure we will be able to include a song from the community bands. We will probably include songs from community bands as we receive content to use, but it probably won’t end up being for each show exit. As always, we welcome feedback and ideas from CodeCast listeners here at http://codemag.com/codecast.

CodeCast Team

Thursday, November 13, 2008
CodeCast Episode 4: State of .NET, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and O'Reilly Media

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.

• Interview (@ 27:40): John Osborn and Laurel Ruma from O'Reilly Media discussing new books, eBooks, Safari, and more. http://oreilly.com/. John is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/johnatoreilly/ and Laurel is at http://twitter.com/laurelatoreilly.

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