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In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Gary Short of DevExpress to talk about Technical Debt, the cost of putting off good development practices, and how it can cripple a project's velocity, flexibility, and quality. Thanks to our guest this episode Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK. As well as C#, Gary also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python as well as iPhone development using Objective-C. Gary’s blog is at http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/garyshort Gary can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/garyshort Show Notes  Blog post defining it on Gary’s blog Download Show

In this episode, Woody sits down with Robert Duffner of Microsoft to discuss the future of Windows Azure and how Open Source Software fits in the vision for Azure. Thanks to our guest this episode Robert Duffner is Microsoft’s Director of Product Management for Windows Azure. Whether engaging with senior IT executives or developers, Robert is focused on amplifying the voice of the customer with the customer advocacy programs he directs to help shape the future product direction of the Windows Azure Platform. These include the Windows Azure Platform Customer Advisory Board as well as driving the Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) to help our early adopter customers and partners validate the platform and shape the final product by providing early and deep feedback. Robert also stays engaged with the top Windows Azure experts in the world as the Community Lead for the Windows Azure Most Valued Professionals (MVP) program. Robert is one of Microsoft’s top experts in Open Source software (OSS) were he joined the company in 2007 as the Director of Open Source Strategy. Robert is a 16 year veteran of the software industry and an enterprise Java expert having worked for companies such as IBM, BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle), and Vignette. Robert can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rduffner Show Notes  Windows Azure Platform Virtual Labs Azure Virtual Machine Role Windows Azure Toolkit Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Download Show  

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Peter Ritchie to discuss the popular database management system NoSQL. It may not look and act like your father’s database but it will help your application scale and perform in ways that relational database cannot. Thanks to our guest this episode Peter Ritchie is a software development consultant. Peter is president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co., a software consulting company in Canada's National Capital Region specializing in Windows-based software development management, process, and implementation consulting. Peter has worked with such clients as Mitel, Nortel, Passport Canada, Innvapost from mentoring to architecture to implementation. Peter's range of experience ranges from designing and implement simple stand-alone applications to architecting n-tier applications spanning dozens of computers; from C++ to C#. Peter’s blog can be found at http://msmvps.com/blogs/PeterRitchie Peter can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PeterRitchie Peter’s hair can be found at http://twitter.com/Petershair Show Notes Wikipedia page for NoSQL RavenDB MongoDB CouchDB Download Show  

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down to discuss Multiparadigmatic C# with Ted Neward.  Yes it is a long word but C# has grown from “just” an object-oriented language into a language that is capable of expressing several different paradigms of software development: object-oriented, functional, and dynamic. Thanks to our guest this episode Ted Neward is the Principal with Neward & Associates, where he specializes in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability, programming languages, and virtual machine technologies. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java", and the forthcoming "Professional F#". He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Ted can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tedneward Show Notes MSDN Magazine: Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 1 MSDN Magazine: Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 2 MSDN Magazine: Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 3 Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down a great new voice in the .NET community Peter Mourfield who wants to share a few of the exciting new features of ASP.NET 4.0. The guys chat about improvements to SEO and routing in ASP.NET along with new and improved controls. Peter also discusses a new project he has called StackBook to better help people use Stack Overflow. Thanks to our guest this episode Peter Mourfield has been developing software for nearly 20 years and currently works for a financial services company that specializes in tax software. He leads the Augusta Developers Guild, a community of software developers in Augusta, GA. Peter’s Blog is http://www.mourfield.com Peter can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pmourfield Show Notes StackBook application ASP.NET Routing ASP.NET 4.0 SEO Improvements ASP.NET 4.0 Charting Control ASP.NET 4.0 View State Improvements Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down 2 SQL MVP’s, Robert Cain and Denny Cherry, to learn what they wish developers would know when working with SQL Server and SQL databases. The guys cover a few SQL Server 2008 topics like Full Text Search, Service Broker and SSIS that developers might want to get more knowledge about to help with projects and their careers. Thanks to our guests this episode Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server, including MySpace.com’s over 175 million user installation, one of the largest in the world. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication and troubleshooting.  Denny currently holds several Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server as well as being a Microsoft MVP.  Denny is a longtime member of PASS and Quest Software’s Association of SQL Server Experts and has written numerous technical articles on SQL Server management. Denny’s Blog is http://itke.techtarget.com/sql-server Denny can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mrdenny Robert C. Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server Development, and works as a Senior Business Intelligence Architect for ComFrame. He is also a technical contributor to Plurasight Training, and co-author of the book "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives". Robert has over 20 years experience in the IT field, working in a variety of fields ranging from manufacturing to telecommunications to nuclear power. He maintains the popular blog http://arcanecode.com. Robert can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/arcanecode Show Notes SQL Server 2008 Full Text Search SQL Server Service Broker SQL Server Integration Services Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with F# Program Manager Luke Hoban at TechEd 2010 to discuss the futures of the F# language. Luke gave the guys the scoop on what developers can accomplish with F# and what the team has planned for upcoming releases of F# with Visual Studio. Thanks to our guest this episode Luke Hoban is the program manager for the F# team at Microsoft. Before moving to the F# team, he was the program manager for the C# compiler and worked on C# 3.0 and LINQ. Luke’s Blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh Luke can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lukehoban Show Notes F# Developer Center Email ideas and bugs to the F# Team at fsbugs@microsoft.com Community F# Forums at http://hubfs.net F# Book - Expert F# 2.0 F# Book - Programming F# Download Show

In this episode Woody sat down two members of the Patterns & Practices Cloud Guidance team at Microsoft to discuss Azure and the ways to get legacy applications to the Cloud. Also discussed during the interview was SQL Azure and Identity and Security in Azure. Thanks to our guests this episode Scott is a Developer Lead in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. He led the development team that created that group’s recently released guides covering the Windows Azure platform. Before that he worked in the Enterprise Library project and the team that built Codeplex. Scott’s Blog is http://scottdensmore.typepad.com Scott can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/scottdensmore Eugenio is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. His current focus in the team is application development for the cloud and, identity federation and access control. Before that he worked in the Platform Architecture Team at Microsoft, focusing solely on Software as a Service (SaaS). Eugenio’s Blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop Eugenio can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eugenio_pace Show Notes Windows Azure Platform Windows Azure AppFabric Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Windows Azure Architecture Guidance, Part 1: Moving Applications to the Cloud A Guide to Claims–based Identity and Access Control SQL Azure Migration Wizard Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Zimmerman to discuss how Jim builds Facebook applications using Windows Azure. Jim was an important developer that worked and released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook project on Codeplex. The project was released to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Thanks to our guest this episode Jim Zimmerman has been an ASP.NET MVP for four years and specializes in Facebook development along with Azure development for several web and Fortune 500 companies. Jim’s Blog is http://www.jimzimmerman.com/blog/ Jim can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jimzim Show Notes Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook Download Show

In this episode Woody sat down shortly after Silverlight 4 was updated in May 2010 with John Papa. The keys to this update was to get both the WCF RIA Services v1.0 and the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 officially released and into developers hands. Woody and John discussed these updates and also how developers can learn more about designing and developing great RIA applications with Silverlight 4. Thanks to our guest this episode John Papa is a Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. (Formerly a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders) John specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. John has written over 70 articles and authored 9 books including his latest book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly Media. John’s Blog is http://johnpapa.net/ John’s can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/John_Papa Show Notes Silverlight TV Silverlight 4 Home Microsoft .toolbox Billy Hollis UX WPF Application WCF RIA Services Home Download Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down shortly after SQL Server 2008 R2 was released to MSDN to discuss this major update for SQL Server. With this release, SQL Server is moving away from being just a database and starting to be an information platform. New features like SteamInsight, improved reports and updated BI tools make this a release that is very exciting for all developer in the community. Thanks to our guests this episode Don Demsak is based out of New Jersey, and is the CTO of Tellago.  He specializes in building Service Oriented applications with .Net. He has a popular blog at www.donxml.com and is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is currently immersed in building RESTful Services with .Net 3.5 & 4.0, exploring Domain Specific Languages in .Net, and the various LINQ enabled frameworks. Don’s Blog is http://donxml.com Don’s can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/donxml Show Notes SQL Server 2008 R2 Homepage Microsoft StreamInsight (Overview) Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) SQL Server 2008 R2 Programmability Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down at PDC09 with two members of the Windows Server AppFabric team, Ford McKinstry and Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, to discuss the new server feature. Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Thanks to our guests this episode Ford McKinstry is from the Application Server Group at Microsoft where he was the Group Program Manager for Distributed Application Server (DAS). That team is responsible for the AppFabric product and specifically owns support for Hosting and Monitoring of WCF and WF services.   Ford has been at Microsoft for 15 years in a variety of roles and teams. He has focused primarily on developer and enterprise technologies including Visual J++, .Net Framework, WCF and most recently DAS.  He has recently moved to be a Group Program Manager on the Client Management and Protection team in the Identity and Security Division working on Forefront products. Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (known as MK for short) was instrumental in architecting, developing and evangelizing AppFabric Cache, that has proven to be quite popular for scaling and making applications highly available. He is currently working as a development manager for AppFabric Messaging. Prior to Microsoft, he worked in Oracle Corporation where he worked on the Oracle database engine for over a decade. He worked on building various technologies including the Object Relational Infrastructure, Oracle XMLDB to store, query XML documents using SQL & XQuery, and various standards Committees. In addition, he architected the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search product designed to securely crawl, index and search data from multiple Application and data sources. Show Notes AppFabric Home Page PDC09 -- Scaling Your Data Tier with Windows Server AppFabric AppFabric Product Documentation AppFabric Architectural Overview AppFabric Tutorials AppFabric Wiki Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down with Andrew Duthie to discuss how the development community can keep track of user groups, code camps and conferences across the United States.  Andrew is the creator of Community Megaphone and he shares why he created the site, its goal, and the benefit to those organizing or looking for events to attend. Thanks to our guest this episode   G. Andrew Duthie, aka .net DEvHammer, is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed. Andrew is also the creator and developer of Community Megaphone, a site designed for promoting and finding developer community events. Andrew can be reached through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/. You can also follow Andrew on twitter. Show Notes Community Megaphone API’s How to Add an Event to Community Megaphone Community Megaphone Podcast Download Show

In this episode, Woody sat down with Mike Flasko at MIX10 to chat about OData that was announced on the second day of the conference. OData is an open protocol for sharing data. It provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data. Thanks to our guest this episode   Mike is a Senior Program Manager Lead in the Data and Modeling Group at Microsoft. Mike and his team are focused on the Open Data Protocol (OData) and the WCF Data Services Framework (previously known as Project “Astoria”). Prior to working with OData and WCF Data Services, Mike was a PM on the Windows Network Developer Platform team at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the System.NET namespace (.NET Framework), the Winsock API and the Winsock Kernel API. Prior to his roles in Program Management, Mike worked as a .NET Developer Technology Evangelist. Mike can be contacted via the Data Services Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/ Show Notes OData.org .NET OData client source ODataPrimer OData Team WCF Data Services Download Show

Have you always wanted to learn more about debugging your software? Or just really want to know what your software is doing especially when it has bugs? We have a treat for you. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Scott Walker to get some tips and tricks for setting up a debugging environment first and then how to use the tools properly to fix those nasty errors your customers and users keep having. Thanks to our guest this episode Scott Walker is a Team Lead with TDCI Inc. in Columbus OH. Scott is currently leads a team of developers responsible for the development of the BuyDesign Channel Sales online quoting solution. In the past he has been responsible for third level customer support as well as research. Scott has been working with .NET since the first release candidate version and has been involved in development of enterprise level web and desktop applications for the law enforcement, banking, and manufacturing industries. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer who has recently developed a strong interest in Ruby and iPhone development in his spare time. When not at work Scott can be found spending time with his wife and two young children, or spreading the good word on Production Debugging at conferences and user groups in the Midwest region.   Scott can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pragma_tech Scott can be contacted via his blog: http://pragma-tech.blogspot.com/ Show Notes Scott’s Debugging Bookmarks WinDbg On Wikipedia Debugging Tools for Windows Microsoft Symbol Server How to connect TFS 2010 to Symbol Server ADPlus PerfMon Microsoft Source Server Download Show