Herding Code

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 […]

On this episode, the guys talk to Andreas and Steven about Nancy, a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. Scott Koon asks why Nancy was developed and what are the problems going up against ASP.NET. Andreas explains Nancy is a lighter approach and doesn’t get in the way. Andreas […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Bert Belder, a Node.js developer who’s working on the native Windows port. Kevin asks how Bert got started with Node.js. Bert explains that he was working on a PHP based system which had a good amount of logic in Javascript, and he started looking to node […]

This episode of Herding Code Kevin and Jon catch up with Sara Chipps to find out how Girl Develop It is going. Kevin jumps right into it by asking Sara about what’s been going on over the past year. Sara goes back to what was on their minds as they were first getting started with […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Ryan Stewart, a developer evangelist at Adobe. Scott K asks about the pricing of Adobe products. Ryan explains why things are priced as they are and talks about the subscription model alternative. Jon talks about the open other free or inexpensive alternatives for beginning Adobe development […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Jesse Liberty, Phil Haack, and Brad Wilson about writing technical books. Jesse has written dozens of technical books, and both Brad and Phil worked with Jon and K. Scott on the recently released ASP.NET Professional MVC 3 book. What’s it like to write a book? Why […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Paul Betts about SassAndCoffee, a NuGet package that adds runtime Sass and CoffeeScript compilation to ASP.NET. Jon asks Paul about his role on the Office Labs team [Spoiler alert! Since this podcast, Paul has started a new job at GitHub!] Jon asks Paul about why he […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Llewellyn Falco about Acceptance Tests, an interesting testing framework for .NET, Java, Ruby, and PHP. Jon talks about how much he enjoyed Llewellyn’s talk on refactoring legacy code at So Cal Code Camp, and was especially intrigued by Approval Tests. Llewellyn explains how Approval Tests got started at a weekly […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Eric Lawrence, the author of the popular Fiddler web debugging proxy. Eric’s also a member of the Internet Explorer team and developer of several popular freeware tools. Eric explains how he’s been working on – and now runs – the team that works on the networking […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk REST with Glenn Block (who’s driving the WCF Web APIs), Darrel Miller (a REST expert with a lot of real world production experience), and John Sheehan (author of RestSharp) about what REST really is and what practical value it really offers in real world, production applications. Jon […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Trevor Burnham about Coffeescript, “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.” Kevin asks Trevor to explain what CoffeeScript is. Trevor explains how CoffeeScript helps you to write the same code you would have in JavaScript, but more quickly and with less effort. Kevin ask if people […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Mark Russinovich about his new book (Zero Day), modern malware like Stuxnet, his experiences discovering the Sony rootkit, Sysinternals tools, and computer security in general. K Scott asks Mark about how he decided to write Zero Day. Mark talks about how early, unsophisticated viruses still caused […]