Talking Heads, Electric Butts

Karen explains her abscense last week, and it's the hottest story of the year. Carl finds out how to deal with Zombies. Mark finds the most accident-proned human being on Earth. Richard calmly takes it all in and distills it into some toys. Carl re-lives the ones and zeros with Roy Ogborn, and we have a live audience.

Thom Robbins is leaving New England to be the new Director of .NET Platform Marketing in Redmond

http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2006/08/17/704858.aspx

This is big news to me. Here in New England, I thought nobody could fill Russ Fustino’s shoes. Russ is the most enthusiastic and helpful Microsoft evangelist-type I’ve ever met. Then I met Thom. Thom is a quiet fire storm. Even though he’s not in the limelight he knows how to do community. He gives his RDs every opportunity to do what they do best. The whole Code Camp idea came from Thom. His absolute confidence in Microsoft technology to rise to the top shows when you see him letting Java guys into Code Camps. He’s not about bashing the competition, he’s about making the .NET community shine. He has amazing talent…. but somehow Russ looks more comfortable in a Hawaiian shirt.

< A Better Outlook/>

Scott discusses some useful add-ons for Outlook.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=41

 Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET in Web Services

Rocky shows us how to use his CSLA.NET framework with web services. He also gives his views on the different philosophies in developing web services in general.

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=33

You could win airfare, hotel, and a ticket to TechEd: Developers Europe 2006 in Barcelona, Spain November 7-10 by simply filling out this form and helping us get some more accurate metrics of our listenership.

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Your wish is granted. Now the feeds include the last 20 shows.

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“It should be pointed out that this is a CTP - not a released product/project. It's still rough in spots, but it's more than functional enough for people to start using it and deriving value from it. The work on categories (searching), media syncing, more media management, rating, and some other bits is coming next.

I've pre-stocked the directory with almost 200 channels, so there's plenty of content. I will be adding even more channels this weekend, and you can always add your own channels via the 'Manage My Subscriptions' area of the guide. “

Carl and Richard catch up with Robert Scoble. He's got some choice words about Microsoft, blogging, podcasting, the future, and his new career.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=193

That's The Funniest Thing You've Ever Said

Karen is away watching her house burn down, Geoff tries to pick up his hot cousin at a family reunion, Carl gets in trouble with his neighbor, Mark dabbles in optical illusions, and Richard... well, you know.

 Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET and ASP.NET

Rocky's back to show us how to use his CSLA.NET framework in an ASP.NET application.

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=32

<Dynamic vs Compiled Languages/>

Scott talks with Carl about what we can learn from dynamic languages such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=40