Venkat Subramaniam on Fundamentals of Agile Design

Venkat is back! We can never get enough of the good doctor. This week Dr. S. starts a two-show series on the fundamentals of agile design. Venkat goes through a fun and interesting example of object cloning and touches on some key agile principals in measuring code quality.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=73

<Interview with Timothy Ferriss of The Four Hour Workweek/>

Scott sits down with New York Times Best Selling Author Timothy Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has an interesting take on how to focus on what's important in your life and offers techniques to be more effective. Scott comes at it from the programmer's perspective.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=87

My Father - Good Neighbor and Disposer of Things Dead

A drunk man, a dead raccoon, a shovel, and me.

<Bill Varga Makes Us IP Intelligent!/>

Richard and Greg talk to Bill Varga about what IP (that's Internet Protocol) Intelligence is all about. They also dig into how IP geolocation helps with regulatory compliance and fraud detection. Bill also talks about the new technology Quova (his employer) has developed that can deal with geolocation of satellite and megaproxy IP addresses.

http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showID=11

Another great panel discussion from TechEd 2007! Carl and Richard talk to a panel of experts about various topics around VSTS and team development focusing on team challenges.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=254

<Richard Turner Checks Our Identity!/>

Another Tech Ed US 2007 interview from Orlando, Richard and Greg sit down with Richard Turner and discuss how CardSpace impacts the IT professional. CardSpace (formerly codenamed "InfoCard") is a key technology in Microsoft's Identity Platform.

http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showID=12

Don Box and Chris Sells talk to Carl and Richard about a myriad of things including the state of publishing, especially books.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=253

The Target Show

Karen develops a target rash. Carl has an altercation at Jiffy Lube, Mark relives another harrowing tale involving small animals, and Richard tries to get a word in edgewise.

 Mark Miller on Creating Custom Controls in WPF

Mr. Miller returns to dnrTV to develop a custom control in Windows Presentation Foundation using the latest Orcas build. Mark goes into all the details of creating, testing and using your custom control in Microsoft Expression Blend.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=72

<Building a Developer PC/>

Scott and Carl chat about building your own PC with a focus on the developer, rather than the gamer.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=86

Carl and Richard talk with members of the Microsoft Acropolis team at TechEd 2007. Acropolis is a software factory-ish toolset that allows business developers to develop quality line-of-business WPF applications with ease.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=252

I installed Microsoft Office 2007 on an XP Pro SP2 box after uninstalling Office 2003. The installation completed ok, and then when I ran Excel I got this:

Mark Pollack is back to talk about the latest version of Spring.NET, a frawmeowrk for extending the capabilities of the .NET Framework modeled after the Java-based Spring framework.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=251

I spent Saturday in Toronto, Canada at the EnergizeIT conference. It was sort of a cross between a Code Camp, DevDays, and a mini-TechEd. Check out the track names:

 Track #1: IT Professional
 Track #2: Developer
 Track #3: Gadget (Developing Vista Gadgets Hands-On)
 Track #4: Security
 Track #5: Real World Solutions –1 (From Microsoft technology partners)
 Track #6: Real World Solutions – 2 (From Microsoft technology partners)
 Track #7: Designer (Expression, etc.)
 Track #8: GameCamp (XNA!!)

I was there with my audio gear, and recorded a few podcasts which will eventually show up on the EnergizeIT site.

Hats off to Microsoft Canada and the greater Toronto community for getting this awesome FREE event together. I hope they do it again next year!

Listen to the podcasts here

 Jean-Paul Boodhoo on Demystifying Design Patterns Part 4

Jean-Paul is back to help us grow more brain cells in learning about patterns in .NET. In this installment JP uses the Specification Pattern to give almost unlimited extensibility to our example contacts list application.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=71

Climbers Joe Kinder and Colette McInerney are psyched, and they should be! Hear stories of climbing with cowboys in Colorado, running from bees in France, pushing themselves to new levels, and making the most of mntn life. They dish about different cultural attitudes toward climbing, aspirations of making climbing more mainstream, and what they imagine they’ll do later in life. You’ve never listened in on a more entertaining conversation!

http://bluepizza.ems.com/default.aspx?showID=14

<Orcas Overview/>

What's the big deal about Orcas, er, Visual Studio 2008? Scott sits down with his partner in crime, Patrick Cauldwell, and chat about .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, oh my! They also talk a bit about dynamic languages, VB 10, and LINQ.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=85

Recorded at the Virtual TechEd Stage, Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad, Rob Howard, and Steve Smith for a lively discussion around ASP.NET Scalability issues.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=250

<Isaac Roybal Shows Us IIS7!/>

While at Tech Ed US 2007 in Orlando, Richard and Greg sat down to talk to Isaac Roybal, a Product Manager on the Windows Server team who is deeply involved in Web Workload, especially IIS 7. Isaac digs into the details of the new management features in IIS 7, now available as part of Windows Server 2008 Beta 3.

http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showID=10

Christophe Wille talks about SharpDevelop, an open-source free alternative to Visual Studio.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=249

Brian Kuhn on The Argotic Syndication Framework

Our guest this week is .NET developer Brian Kuhn. Brian was inspired by Carl's pwopcatcher project to develop this .NET framework for syndication. The Argotic framework makes reading and writing syndication data sources in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, RSD, etc. very easy while still remaining powerful enough to handle the myriad of syndication extensions commonly in use today.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=70

<Hanselminutae-four/>

Scott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=84

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software is back (see show #11) to talk about cultivating an aesthetic sense around software, media, and user experience.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=248

<Eric Marvets Talks TrueCrypt!/>

Richard and Greg talk to Eric Marvets about securing laptop drives and other portable media using TrueCrypt. Along the way they dig into different levels of security and the entropy of passwords.

http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showID=9

Carl and Richard interview Peter Kuhn from the Scripps Institute about an application he designed to allow cancer researchers to visualize molecules and annotate them with real time collaboration. The application was written with beta versions of WPF, and champoined by Tim Huckaby's team at Interknowlogy and evangelized by Eileen Rumwell and Stephen Forte. This is an amazing success story.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=247

Keepin it Cool

Some invaluable advice from TSMITW on how to keep your cool under extreme pressure

 Miguel Castro on Extensibility

Our old friend Miguel Castro is back to give us a fresh look at software architecture. This show will be helpful for both beginners and veteran developers. Miguel uses some well known and perhaps not so popular patterns to make your project flexible and scalable.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=69

<Setting up a Home Network/>

Scott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=83