Herding Code

This week, the Herding Code cast talks shop with Scott Watermasysk about cloud computing, blogging platforms, Internet Explorer, the DotNetOpenId project and much more: Scott W, Scott K and Jon discuss Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. Jon asks Scott W to share his thoughts on blogging platforms and the difficulties around their […]

This week on Herding Code, K. Scott kicks off an amusing conversation about office pranks and general fun in the workplace: Jon explains why you might send goat pictures to your coworkers. Kevin comments about the hazards of new carpet installation. K. Scott talks about making an HP Printer come to life. And learn why […]

This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin and Scott K discuss *Chirp (since renamed blu), Witty, Twitter usage, open source and WPF development: The guys review *Chirp, a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23.  Scott compares *Chirp to Paris Hilton, Jon reminisces about old Simpsons episodes and Kevin shares that *Chirp is very pretty, nicely […]

This week Kevin leads a discussion about the inauguration on the web, then we field some questions from listeners. Topics Live inauguration video on Silverlight sites Photosynth picture of the inauguration whitehouse.gov on webforms – will Viewstate bring down the presidency? Armchair quarterbacking the whitehouse.gov site whitehouse.gov updates robots.txt And Twitter didn’t die! Question – […]

This week Jon leads a discussion about our first impressions of Windows 7 Beta 1. Topics Previously bundled features are now distribued via Windows Live – good or bad? Is the Windows Live suite just a standardized crapware? Where’s our Photo Gallery? Windows Marketplace??? Missing an ISO Mounter The out of box experience Window docking […]

This week we talk to Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller about the FubuMVC project.Topics What is FubuMVC? History of the project Built to take advantage of static typing Composition over inheritance Dependency injection tricks IFlattener<T> for JSONification Application of SOLID prinicples in FubuMVC and AltOxite View engines TextboxFor and no magic strings – advantages for […]

K Scott leads the discussion as we look back at 2008, and speculate wildly on what 2009 has to offer. Note: Scott K’s taking a podcasting break to change diapers and stuff. Looking back at 2008 Google Chrome Kevin’s new iPhone Kevin’s Firefox extension addiction Hulu IE8 – better than expected, but still a ways […]

This is the second half of our discussion with Miguel de Icaza about Mono, Moonlight, open source, and other fun stuff. Topics When re-implementing .NET, do you match re-implement known bugs? The test / regression system to maintain compatibility How do you support so many platforms What parts of Mono are written in managed code? […]

This week we talk with Miguel de Icaza about Mono, Moonlight, and other fun stuff. Topics Overview and update on Mono Mono’s roots as a tool for desktop applications on Gnome / Linux The need for a package manager in Windows Managed operating systems (like Microsoft Research Singularity) New areas of focus for Mono – […]

Kevin leads a discussion on what every web developer needs to know. Topics Javascript – language or toolkits? Does clean HTML matter? What are the tangible benefits? Working with designers who only speak Photoshop Basic usability Tools every web developer needs Progressive enhancement K. Scott introduces the Lightning Round Links Aggiorno – HTML refactoring tool […]

Jon talks to Laurent Bugnion about WPF and Silverlight. Laurent’s an expert on WPF and Silverlight, and is the author of Silverlight 2 Unleashed. Topics Differences between WPF and Silverlight Thoughts on Silverlight offline Model-View-ViewModel pattern and applications in Blend WPF Disciples mailing list Why use WPF instead of Winforms Non-visual benefits of WPF and [...]

While we were at the Microsoft PDC 2008 conference, we met up with the guys from the Deep Fried Bytes podcast as well as Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow, CodingHorror) for a podcaster roundtable. The first part of this discussion is over at Deep Fried Bytes (Episode 18). Download / Listen Herding Code 25: PDC 2008 Podcaster [...]

This is the second half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics ModelBinders in ASP.NET MVC Lessons learned in building MVC (question from Brian Henderson) To what extent did the MVC team look at other frameworks like Monorail, Rails, Django, etc. Any new features for the 1.0 release? How [...]

This is the first half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics The MVC Elevator Speech MVC and Codebehind files How MVC differs from Webforms How MVC changes your development process The difficulty in unit testing UI What’s the threshold for testing your programs? The File / New / [...]

This week we talk to Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer about the Silverlight 2 release. Topics What’s new? The releationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2 The Eclipse for Silverlight development The Open Specification Promise for XAML Progress on Mono / Moonlight The elevator speech on Silverlight How Silverlight fits in with AJAX Can Silverlight [...]