Herding Code

The gang talks to Scott Guthrie about the recent announcement that ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor are being developed in public, open source repositories using git and will accept external code contributions. It’s an action packed show, jam packed with information and guys named Scott. Download / Listen: Herding Code 142 – Scott Guthrie […]

K Scott wraps up his series of lightning round interviews from Sofware Passion Summit by interviewing Hadi Hariri. Download / Listen: Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri Show Notes: K Scott asks Hadi about EasyHttp. Hadi explains some of the problems and annoyances EasyHttp solves. Configuring the web request was a pain […]

While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott continues a series of lightning round interviews with Morten Kromberg, discussing APL. Download / Listen: Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg Show Notes: Morten describes the history and purpose of APL. Did you know that APL stands for "A Programming Language"? The first book about […]

While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott continues a series of lightning round interviews with Roy Osherove discussing Roy’s new book, Notes to a software team leader. Download / Listen: Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove Show Notes: K Scott asks Roy about his new book. Roy talks about the LeanPub approach. […]

While at Software Passion Summit, K Scott did a series of four Lightning Round interviews, starting with Douglas Crockford. Download / Listen: Herding Code 138 – Douglas Crockford Show Notes: K Scott asks Douglas what he meant when he said that the human brain wasn’t designed for this sort of work? What were we designed […]

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, 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 […]