Herding Code

Oh, hey. A discussion show. Haven’t done one of those for a while. Bonus: recorded during the day so K Scott’s awake. Download / Listen: Herding Code 137: Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones Show Notes: K Scott asks everyone’s opinions on the GitHub / Ruby on [...]

In this episode, Jon and Scott K talk talk with the guys behind Code52, an effort to spin up a new open source project every week for a year. Download / Listen: Herding Code 136: Code52 with Paul Jenkins, Brendan Forster, and Andrew Tobin Show Notes: Jon starts by asking how this whole idea got [...]

In this episode, the guys talk with Remco Mulder (author of NCrunch) and Jeff Schumacher (author of Giles) about continuous testing in .NET. Download / Listen: Herding Code 135: Remco Mulder and Jeff Schumacher on Continuous Testing Show Notes: Scott K kicks things off with a horrible old school BASIC joke. Remco explains how NCrunch [...]

In this episode, Jon talks to Brad Wilson about the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release. Download / Listen: Herding Code 134: Brad Wilson on ASP.NET 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API Show Notes: Brad starts with a rundown of what was in ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview, including HTML5 Default Template features, Adaptive Rendering, Mobile [...]

In this episode, the guys talk with Derick Bailey (consultant and founder of watchmecode.net, where he sells JavaScript themed screen casts) about Backbone.js, which is a popular JavaScript framework. Download / Listen: Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js Show Notes: Derick starts off by explaining what Backbone is not: a JavaScript MVC framework. Backbone [...]

In this episode, they guys talk with Phil Haack and Paul Betts (both new GitHubbers) and Keith Dahlby (author of posh-git, a set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration) about using Git on Windows. Download / Listen: Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers Show Notes: [...]

In this episode, the guys talk to Chris Williams (organizer of jsConf) and Matthew Podwysocki about the Javascript community, fighting negativity in the programmer community, emerging Javascript trends, and the merits of spring beers. Jon asks Chris to catch us up with what’s happened since we last talked to him, just after jsConf.us 2010. Chris [...]

In this episode, Jon Galloway and Kevin Dente talk to Dave Weaver about Loggr, a complete logging, analytics and notification system that will easily bolt on to your application. Dave runs Markkup, a consulting company and is building Loggr, SaaS application that provides real time logging and monitoring. He was one of the founders of [...]

In this episode, Jon Galloway and Kevin Dente talk to Dave Weaver about Loggr, a complete logging, analytics and notification system that will easily bolt on to your application. Dave runs Markkup, a consulting company and is building Loggr, SaaS application that provides real time logging and monitoring. He was one of the founders of [...]

In this episode, Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente and guest host John Sheehan talk to Rob Reynolds about Chocolatey (a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get for Windows), as well as Rob’s Chuck Norris frameworks for project setup, management, deployment, and more. Rob talks about how Nu helped shape the direction of NuGet. Chocolatey is a [...]

On this episode of Herding Code, Scott K, Jon, and Kevin talk to Corey Haines about the Global Day of Coderetreat event being held in 90+ cities on December 3. Scott asks Corey to start by explaining his software journeyman thing, or as Scott calls it “couch surfing in return for coding.” Corey describes how he transitioned [...]

On this episode of Herding Code, the guys discuss computer and work area setup, from installation and file management to ergonomic work areas and animated GIF’s. Kevin and K Scott both just got MacBooks, they discuss what they are doing with them, such as using the emulator to test HTML5 apps for iPhone/iPad. Jon asks, [...]

On this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Jeff Atwood about the intersection of video games and learning, along the way discussing music, learning to program, casual games, bleeding edge games about bleeding (Battlefield 3), Kinect, Wii, and retro games. Jeff talks about video games as a gateway to programming. Jon and Jeff [...]

On this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Joel Abrahamsson, Marcus Granström and Henrik Lindström about Truffler, a solution for building advanced search and querying functionality for websites and other data-centric systems. They talk about their backgrounds and combining their different skills to build something pretty awesome. K. Scott says Truffler has a [...]

On this episode, the guys talk to Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar about Glimpse, which allows you to debug your web site or web service right in the browser. Jon asks why Glimpse was created. Anthony gives a high-level explanation of what Glimpse does. Glimpse is for your server what Firebug is for [...]