Herding Code

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller about what’s new with FubuMVC. Jeremy Miller explains why FubuMVC "deserves to exist" and explains how compositional architecture and conventions help in building complex systems. Josh talks about how FubuMVC diagnostics help in understanding how the conventions are being applied how […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to John Papa about the Open Source Fest he put together at MIX11. Jon asks how the whole thing got started, and if John encountered any friction within Microsoft in getting this set up. John describes the event and calls out some of the winners from the […]

This episode of Herding Code Kevin and Jon sit down with Geoff and Jarrod at MIX to talk about their experiences from helping to build the first StackOverflow site up through today’s fast paced world of StackExchanges and gold plated Lamborghinis. Note: We recorded in quietest spot we could find – there’s some background noise, […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to the organizers of the Harmony Hackathon: twelve developers coding madly for 48 hours, trying to build an application for the non-profit Harmony Hill cancer retreat center. Eric talks about the Harmony Hackathon came together and what they were trying to accomplis. Jon asks about how things […]

This episode of Herding Code continues a discussion / argument that Jon started with Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Twitter a few weeks ago after reading a post he liked from a product designer at Quora about how they don’t use Photoshop in their design process. What’s the role of visual design in the […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk nonsense for over an hour. Topic: The Apple Store 30% fee for App Subscriptions – who’s surprised, what apps will it affect, etc. The conversation shifts to Kindle, and whether content focused apps can move to HTML only. Topic: Windows Mobile deal with Nokia – will […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys speak with Mark Rendle about his Simple.Data and Fix projects. The show begins with Mark’s Simple.Data elevator pitch in which he explains that Simple.Data is an ORM without the O, the R or the M. Jon asks about Mark’s heavy use of dynamic types in the Simple.Data […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to ASP.NET team member and repeat guest Brad Wilson about what’s new in ASP.NET MVC 3, BDD-style testing with SpecFlow and WaitN, and the latest release of xUnit.net. Jon begins the show by sharing Brad’s bio and then dives right in asking about ASP.NET MVC 3 […]

You remember Rob Eisenberg from Herding Code Show #57 when he talked presentation patterns along with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell and Glenn Block. Well, in this episode of Herding Code, the conversation continues as Rob talks with the guys about Caliburn.Micro, an opinionated MVVM framework for WPF, Silverlight and WP7. Kevin kicks off this week’s […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk with “self-congratulatory, self-proclaimed, egotistical doofus” Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta, OpenWrap and Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN.) K Scott kicks off the show asking Seb about his most popular OSS project – OpenRasta provides the 30 second elevator pitch and touches on his web framework which […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk with avid open source contributor Tim Caswell about Node.js for which he is a community leader.  Listen in as the guys dig into node.js and what it has to offer. Tim gives the node.js elevator pitch and begins to explain what node offers – like event […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Kelly Sommers. Jon asks Kelly about her first big post, What fuels my passion for technology & writing code Kelly talks about her experience getting started on Twitter Jon asks Kelly about her post on how desktop UI’s feel boring compared to mobile UI’s Jon […]

One hundred shows! Her Majesty Queen Beatrix shows up and talks with the gang about the previous 99 shows. Jon summarizes the server logs and beatboxes, K Scott talks about his jetset life via a flaky internet connection, Kevin reveals that this isn’t the podcast he thought he was signing up for, and Scott K […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to David Ebbo, an architect on the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team, about NuGet, a new open source package management system for the .NET platform. David describes the history of NuGet – how NuGet evolved from a web-based feature for use in ASP.NET Web Pages […]

In the previous episode, when the guys were talking to Jackson Harper about Manos de Mono, he mentioned that Dale Ragan was doing cooking up something really exciting for hosting ASP.NET web applications with support for deployment via Git or Mercurial. So, they called him up and recorded a show right then and there. Jackson […]