Herding Code

This week on Herding Code, Cory Foy and Will Green join the guys to discuss general differences between .NET and Ruby development approaches. Is the grass always greener on the other side? Listen in on this week’s talk about how languages, frameworks, tools and cultures shape the way we implement .NET and Ruby solutions and […]

This week on Herding Code, the guys discuss compare notes on how to teach software development topics. Is hands-on instruction key? How much should you simplify to focus on mechanics? How do you teach, and how do you like to learn? Jon talks about his impressions on the effectiveness of hands-on learning at Web Camp […]

This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki about the Reactive Extensions for Javascript. Matt talks about how he’s been involved with RxJS. Jeffrey talks about how RxJS and Reactive Extensions came out of the the Volta project. Matt talks about how RxJS simplifies the callback model in […]

This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki about this year’s JSConf. Chris begins the show with a conference overview which will leave you chomping at the bit for JSConf 2011 registration to open. Hackers’ Lounge. Multiple tracks. One killer speaker list. Hyper-caffeinated, hyper-intoxicated privates! Salmagundi. And […]

This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin, Scott K and Rob Conery discuss Ruby on Rails, using dynamic languages to write views, web security, advanced javascript techniques, recent Twitter news, Section 3.3.1 and the official release of Visual Studio 2010. The show begins with talk of Kevin’s recent dabbling into Ruby on Rails. The guys […]

This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin and Scott K discuss MvcConf, C4MVC and MvcContrib with, open source and community extraordinaire, Eric Hexter.  Eric talks about his role as consultant and Director of Open Source at Headspring. The guys walk through Hexter’s impressive resume.   Eric is the co-founder of MVCContrib, he established the Community for […]

This week on Herding Code, John Sheehan joins the cast for a conversation about his open source project, RestSharp. The gang dives into REST and .NET open source. Makes sense, right? And the show wraps with talk of OData and a MIX10-inspired Lightning Round. John talks about his exciting new evangelist job at Twilio. Twillo […]

This week on Herding Code, Barry Dorrans educates, entertains, insults and scares us with his expert commentary on application security, threat modeling, analysis tools and common attacks.  You’ve been waiting for this show.  I just know it.  Listen in as Barry talks security, pimps his new book, and comments on his new position at Microsoft, […]

This week on Herding Code, K Scott leads a conversation with ASP.NET Insider and MVP, Javier Lozano, about his open source project, MVC Turbine, and extensibility and composition with ASP.NET MVC. Javier provides a twitter-like overview of his open source project: “MVC Turbine helps you build modular applications on top of ASP.NET MVC and that’s […]

This week on Herding Code, Jon leads a discussion with Daniel Plaisted about Model-Based Testing and the progressive practices of the MEF team. Daniel speaks of the primary development roles at Microsoft and how the MEF team addresses testing concerns. Guess what.  Developers write tests, too. Daniel talks about Model-Based Testing and validation of transitions […]

This week on Herding Code, the gang discusses Uncle Bob’s self-titled blatherings about DI, IoC and Mocking, Clojure and polyglot programming, managed javascript, and recent support for Mercurial at Codeplex. The show finishes up with another K Scott Lightning Round with questions about the iPad and non-technical blog recommendations. Uncle Bob recently published two articles […]

This week on Herding Code, James Avery and Rob Conery join the cast in a lively discussion about NoSQL, TekPub, the new DotNetKicks and the technical debate du jour, ASP.NET Web Forms vs ASP.NET MVC. Kevin asks Rob and James to share their views on NoSQL and the use of object and document databases.  James […]

This week on Herding Code, we talk to Sean Chambers about migrations in .NET with Fluent Migrator. Sean talks about how Fluent Migrator originated from Migrator.NET Sean discusses how the benefits of a semantic model in Fluent Migrator K Scott and Sean discuss how you’d start using Fluent Migrator in a project Sean talks about […]

This week on Herding Code, Scott Bellware returns to talk about .  Scott talks about the frustrations in working with “HTML Specialists” Scott discusses the team issues caused by specialists in a software team who aren’t in touch with the entire product development cycle The problem with handoffs: loss of workability Eventually, things turn to […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the gang talks about what happened last year and what they think will happen in the years to come.  Oh, and K Scott brings us the first lightning round of 2010! How will the guys manage the show in 2010?  Google Docs and listener requests? Are you bitter because […]