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The 64-Bit Question, a .NET Rocks! Quiz Show

Carl Franklin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:04:03 GMT

Back in October, 2006 we recorded the 200th episode of .NET Rocks! at Pwop Studios. Richard Campbell, Mark Dunn, Rory Blyth, Mark Miller, and Geoff Macioleck all participated.

We recorded it on video. Here is the second half of that video, in which I asked the co-hosts (Richard, Rory, and Mark) questions about the show. A correct answer means some listener got a piece of swag. Funny stuff.

Warning: adult language and themes. Click the picture below to see the video with Silverlight.

.NET Rocks! Search: Phase 1 of 2 complete

Carl Franklin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:49:07 GMT

For the last few years we have been converting all of our transcripts to HTML so they could be more easily searched. However, if you tried clicking on the Search menu item in the last, oh, year or so, you might have noticed that nothing happened. We got ourselves a Google Search Appliance. which worked really well up until the day after the service contract expired, and then it went DOA. Seriously, the thing is braindead.

So, our goal is to replace that functionality with search using Windows Live Search. First thing we had to do was to expose all of those transcripts by linking them to the main page, where the search spiders could find them. The second phase is just to implement a custom search page using Windows Live.

Phase one is now complete. From the main page on www.dotnetrocks.com you can click the HTML Transcripts menu option and that brings you here:

http://dotnetrocks.com/text/transcripts.aspx

All of the transcripts are listed from most recent to oldest.

You can test this out by doing a google search on the literal string "So, that forced Haskell to stay pure"

The first hit is a link to the HTML page in the transcript where Simon Peyton Jones uttered those words:

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/text/0310/index11.html

and from there, you can go to the show page to listen, or browse through the entire transcript.

So, at the end of phase one, we should see a spike in traffic due to people searching on various .NET topics and landing in a DNR transcript. Phase two will allow you to search through just our transcripts.

Happy Holidays!

Tonight's live show cancelled

Carl Franklin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:38:51 GMT

Due to a scheduling conflict. We'll record show #400 in Montreal instead.

Participate in .NET Rocks! Show #400

Carl Franklin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:09:51 GMT

.NET ROCKS LIVE. FRIDAY 10PM EST. CALL-IN!

After mountains of thought on the subject which lasted, oh, minutes, Richard and I have decided to open up .NET Rocks! show #400 as a call-in show.

We may or may not have some of our previous guests on the line. It might just be Richard and I. Either way, we want to talk to you, our listeners, about what YOU are doing with .NET. We know you sometimes swear at your iPod because you can't jump in and make a point. So, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!

We want to hear from the regular guys and gals out there who are writing software every day.

We're going to have a live stream and an IRC chat room (just like the old days). Details will follow tomorrow about how to listen and chat.

The show recording will be tomorrow night (Friday, November 27) at 10pm Eastern Time.

If you want to call in, Email me (carl at franklins dot net) with your phone number, and sometime during the show we will call you and patch you in.

Show Announcements on This Blog are Ending

Carl Franklin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:02:16 GMT

We currently have two RSS feeds for each show we publish, which doesn’t make sense. One is the podcast feed which contains the media file enclosure as well as the description, and another is this blog which has no files attatched.

In an effort to reclaim my blog I’ve decicded to stop the blog announcements. So, if you are currently looking at this feed, please subscribe to one of the podcast feeds that are listed on the websites for .NET Rocks!, dnrTV, Hanselminutes, RunAs Radio, and the others.

You may see a few more announcements as we make changes to the system, but they should be done by the end of the week.

.NET Rocks! #388 - Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) on Being a Professional!

Carl Franklin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:55:04 GMT

Bob Martin talks about how to achieve Clean Code, which also happens to be the name of his famous book on software development.

.NET Rocks! #387 - Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET for Silverlight!

Carl Franklin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:01:32 GMT

Rocky is back to talk about his acclaimed CSLA.NET framework which was just released for Silverlight, allowing you to write CSLA clients in the browser... even running on a Mac!

.NET Rocks! #386 - Interknowlogy Scratches the Surface!

Carl Franklin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:13:35 GMT

Dan Hanan and Kevin Kennedy from Interknowlogy talk about their experiences working with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight. Interknowlogy is run by Tim Huckaby, a long-time guest and friend of .NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! #384 - Rob Tiffany on Windows Mobile

Carl Franklin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:56:42 GMT

Rob Tiffany stops by to talk about the lastest in Windows Mobile technology. Carl managed to squeeze a hint out of him about what's next for Windows Mobility.

.NET Rocks! #383 - Jon Skeet on C# 3.0

Carl Franklin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:06:56 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to author and developer Jon Skeet about his work with C# and Java at Google and elsewhere.

.NET Rocks! #382 - Andrew Delin on SOX Complience

Carl Franklin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:15:39 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Delin about why developers should care about the Sarbanes Oxley Act and why a compliance plan is in your best interest.

.NET Rocks! #381 - Catching up with Michele Leroux Bustamante

Carl Franklin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:36:43 GMT

Michele Leroux Bustamante talks to Carl and Richard for the first time since she had her first kid! The topic is federated identity services.

.NET Rocks! #380 - Frans Bouma on ORM!

Carl Franklin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:41:48 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Frans Bouma about his thoughts on the ORM revolution, his products, and the Entity Framework. Great stuff!

.NET Rocks! #379 - Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight 2.0

Carl Franklin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:50:32 GMT

Carl and Richard catch up with Rev. Billy (just kidding, Billy) to talk about the state of WPF and Silverlight 2.0. Billy always has great stories from the field, and real-world insight.

.NET Rocks! #378 - Michael Izard on Dryad

Carl Franklin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:49:39 GMT

Richard and Carl talk to Michael Izard about Dryad, a grid computing and clustering project from Microsoft.

.NET Rocks! #377 - Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher on F#

Carl Franklin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:40:23 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher about their work with F# and separate truth from fiction about functional languages.

.NET Rocks! #376 - Catching up with Charles Petzold

Carl Franklin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:27:32 GMT

Carl and guest co-host Mark Dunn talk with Charles Petzold about the life of the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. Charles talks about his book, "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.", and also discusses writing books, blogs, and online media.

.NET Rocks! #375 - Steve Teixeira on Parallelism

Carl Franklin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:30:25 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Steve Teixeira, Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Development Tools team within Developer Division's Parallel Computing Platform organzation at Microsoft. The conversation is mostly around the future of parallel computing highlighting offerings that Microsoft is currently working on.

.NET Rocks! #374 - Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism

Carl Franklin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:01:39 GMT

While at TechEd 2008 in Orlando Carl and Richard recorded this interview with Glenn Block from Microsoft and Brian Noyes from iDesign about the Prism project, formally named Composite Application Guidance, which promises to simplify and organize WPF development projects.

Brian Randall and Martin Woodward talk about Team Foundation Server 2008, and all the goodness within.

.NET Rocks! #372 - Live from devLink 2008!

Carl Franklin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:51:44 GMT

Carl and Richard break out the microphone during Karaoke night (don't worry) at the DoubleTree bar in Murphreesboro, TN, to talk to staff and attendees of the devLink Technical Conference (August 22-23).

.NET Rocks! #370 - Soma!

Carl Franklin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:12:21 GMT

Richard and Carl talk to Microsoft Executirve S. Somasegar about his experiences at Microsoft from his early days working on systems like OS/2, NT, Windows 2000 to overseeing the Developer Division of Microsoft.

.NET Rocks! #369 - Dan Simmons and Stephen Forte on the EF Advisory Council

Carl Franklin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:39:54 GMT

Dan Simmons is back with Stephen Forte, a member of the EF Advisory Council, a group of outsiders who were brought in to help shape future direction for the EF. You might be surprised at who else was on the council, and what they are thinking about.

Mark Brown, Angus Logan, and Dr. Neil on Windows Live

Carl Franklin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:08:51 GMT

This is an interview I did while at Teched for TechEd Online

I know what you're thinking, that this is just another boring interview about Windows Live, but it was actually loads of fun, and the tangents were as interesting as the real material. I think you'll be a little chuffed when you watch it.

DNS Problems at Pwop/Franklins.Net

Carl Franklin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:21:27 GMT

We are experiencing some DNS issues. The entire technical staff is away today and their DNS servers for outgoing resolution are not working or got moved or something. Our sites were down earlier, and now after making a few patches to my sites, seem to be back in business. The basic problem is still there, though. I am checking my email so if there are any more problems please send me email - carl@franklins.net

Thanks!

.NET Rocks! #367 - Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications!

Carl Franklin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:32:06 GMT

Udi Dahan is back to talk to the guys about scaling web applications. This is an area of expertise for Richard as well as Udi, so you know you'll get your money's worth out of this one!

.NET Rocks! #364 - Stacy Harris Does Home Automation!

Carl Franklin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:17:57 GMT

Charles Stacy Harris talks about technologies used to automate his home using .NET interfaces. Geek out!

.NET Rocks! #363 - Kate Gregory Develops in C++ for Vista!

Carl Franklin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:04:21 GMT

Carl and Richard catch up with Kate Gregory to talk Vista, VB, C++, and her latest thoughts and experiences.

.NET Rocks! #361 - Jeffrey Richter on the Windows Memory Model

Carl Franklin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:18:36 GMT

Jeff Richter is back to talk about how Windows manages memory, from the early versions of Windows to the .NET Framework. Geek out!

.NET Rocks! #360 - Ted Neward and Joel Pobar on Rotor 2.0

Carl Franklin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:18:24 GMT

	Ted Neward and Joel Pobar talk about Rotor, the open source .net framework reference implementation. Ted and Joel have written a book on Rotor 2.0

.NET Rocks! #359 - Brian Randell on Hyper-V and Virtualization

Carl Franklin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:09:10 GMT

Brian Randell is back to talk about Microsoft Virtualization technologies focusing on Hyper-V, the kernel-level virtualization technology built into Windows Server 2008.

.NET Rocks! #358 - TechEd 2008 Software Quality Panel

Carl Franklin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:12:52 GMT

This is as close to Jerry Springer as we get! A great panel discussion from TechEd 2008 about balancing software quality with other factors such as cost and time taken.

.NET Rocks! #357 - Nathan Pocock on OPC and Factory Automation

Carl Franklin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:42:05 GMT

Carl and Richard get the skinny from Nathan Pocock on OPC (open process collabaration), and the advances made using OPC as a comprehensive interface with PLCs (programmable logic controllers).

.NET Rocks! #356 - XML Literals Panel from TechEd 2008

Carl Franklin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:37:26 GMT

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion at the TechEd Online stage at TechEd 2008, subtitled How I Learned to Love Dim.

.NET Rocks! #355 - Ted Faison Takes Events to the Limit!

Carl Franklin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:48:02 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Faison as part of the whole back to basics initiative at DNR about Event-Driven design.

.NET Rocks! #354 - Donald Belcham and Kyle Baley on Brownfield Applications

Carl Franklin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:38:02 GMT

Donald Belcham and Kyle Baley talk to Carl and Richard about inheriting existing (brownfield) applications. The focus of this talk is on setting up the environment before tackling the code with a special focus on testing.

.NET Rocks! #353 - Smart Client Panel at TechEd 2008

Carl Franklin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:53:53 GMT

Carl and Richard interview Glenn Block, Steve Lasker, and Tim Huckaby on the state of the Smart Client.

.NET Rocks! #352 - Eric Brechner on IM Wright's Hard Code

Carl Franklin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:33:21 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Eric Brechner, the author of the book 'I. M. Wright's Hard Code', an opinion blog (and book) with a tude!

.NET Rocks! #351 - Rick Strahl on AJAX and jQuery

Carl Franklin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:47:14 GMT

Rick Strahl takes us on a tour through using jQuery to do all the heavy lifting in JavaScript.

Torrents back online

Carl Franklin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:33:53 GMT

Our torrents are back online thanks to David Smith from OkayPublish and some creative code tweaking on my part.

I posted a while back that our tracker got hacked and was being used for copyrighted material. We almost got shut down.

Please report any success or failures downloading torrents. Thanks!

.NET Rocks! #350 - Dan and Kathleen on Kids and Computing

Carl Franklin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:46:36 GMT

Dan Appleman and Kathleen Dollard have a lot to say about kids: computing, and programming. This is a great show for parents or anyone who works with kids.

.NET Rocks! #349 - Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic Data

Carl Franklin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:54:02 GMT

Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime, which provides scaffolding and dynamic data services to developers.

.NET Rocks! #345 - Dmitri Ossipov on Enterprise Service Bus

Carl Franklin — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:41:00 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to Dmitri Ossipov from Microsoft about ESB architecture and specifically Biztalk.

.NET Rocks! #342 - Dan Wahlin on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF

Carl Franklin — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:03 GMT

Dan Wahlin chats with Carl and Richard in front of a live audience at DevConnections in Orlando about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.

.NET Rocks! #341 - 64-Bit with Brian Peek

Carl Franklin — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:37:18 GMT

Carl and Richard talk with Brian Peek about the latest and greatest in 64-bit.

.NET Rocks! #340 - Brad Abrams and Omar Khan Announce .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1

Carl Franklin — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:54:41 GMT

Brad Abrams and Omar Khan from Microsoft officially announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and detail all the new features and improvements!

.NET Rocks! Good News and Bad News

Carl Franklin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:21:25 GMT

The bad news is that we won't be publishing yesterday's show until Monday. The Good news is, you get 3 shows next week. How's that for positive spin!

We intereviewed someone who is announcing a product, and that product slipped. First one day, then over the weekend. We think it will be worth the wait, however.

Fortunately, our listeners are very understanding! Thank you!

.NET Rocks! will publish Friday instead of Thursday

Carl Franklin — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:32:42 GMT

You'll understand why tomorrow. :)

.NET Rocks! #339 - Phil Haack on Model View Controller

Carl Franklin — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:33:40 GMT

Phil Haack from Microsoft catches us up on his latest goings-on in The Collective, and talks about the ASP.NET MVC Framework.

.NET Rocks! #338 - Mark Miller on the Science of Good UI

Carl Franklin — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:22:43 GMT

Good user interface design can be done by sticking to some good rules and avoiding common mistakes. You don't need to be a latte-sippin tattoo-wearin macbook-carrying designer to create user interfaces that work.