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Episode 26: Laurent Bugnion on WPF and Silverlight Nov 14, 2008

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Episode 26

Jon talks to Laurent Bugnion about WPF and Silverlight. Laurent's an expert on WPF and Silverlight, and is the author of Silverlight 2 Unleashed. Topics

Differences between WPF and Silverlight
Thoughts on Silverlight offline
Model-View-ViewModel pattern and applications in Blend
WPF Disciples mailing list
Why use WPF instead of Winforms
Non-visual benefits of WPF and Silverlight
Benefits of the XAML format
Silverlight's VisualStateManager compared to WPF triggers
Laurent's experiences writing Silverlight 2 Unleashed

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PDC 2008 Podcast Roundtable — **Episode 25: PDC 2008 Podcaster Roundtable with Deep Fried Bytes and StackOverflow (part 2)** Nov 07, 2008
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**Episode 25**
While we were at the Microsoft PDC 2008 conference, we met up with the guys from the Deep Fried Bytes podcast as well as Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow, CodingHorror) for a podcaster roundtable. The first part of this discussion is over at Deep Fried Bytes (Episode 18).
**Download / Listen** Herding Code 25: PDC 2008 Podcaster Roundtable with Deep Fried Bytes and StackOverflow (part 2)

Episode 24: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 2) Nov 04, 2008

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Episode 24

This is the second half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics

ModelBinders in ASP.NET MVC
Lessons learned in building MVC (question from Brian Henderson)
To what extent did the MVC team look at other frameworks like Monorail, Rails, Django, etc.
Any new features for the 1.0 release? How about 2.0?
What's next for you after MVC ships?
How is the MVC team's community-centered release style affecting other Microsoft teams?
Will MVC's TDD focus affect other Microsoft frameworks?
Would MVC be a good fit for a RESTful service system
RESTful routing
What Visual Studio features can we expect
How has one year at Microsoft been for you?
Strongly typed ActionLink having been moved to MVC futures

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Episode 23: Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release (part 1) Oct 26, 2008

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Episode 23

This is the first half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics

The MVC Elevator Speech
MVC and Codebehind files
How MVC differs from Webforms
How MVC changes your development process
The difficulty in unit testing UI
What's the threshold for testing your programs?
The File / New / MVC experience
How MVC is built for extensibility
How MVC is stress tested
Is there a controls story for MVC?

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Episode 22: Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer on the Silverlight 2 Release Oct 16, 2008

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Episode 22

This week we talk to Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer about the Silverlight 2 release. Topics

What's new?
The releationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2
The Eclipse for Silverlight development
The Open Specification Promise for XAML
Progress on Mono / Moonlight
The elevator speech on Silverlight
How Silverlight fits in with AJAX
Can Silverlight support separation of concerns and testability?
Will Microsoft be shipping frameworks for Silverlight?
Will Silverlight support offline scenarios
Silverlight as a "line of business" platform
The WPF / Silverlight connection
The Silverlight open source community
The Flash question
The casual gaming market
Silverlight performance vs. Javascript
Speculation on Silverlight 3 features...
The non-Windows development experience
The Silverlight story for iPhone and other mobile platforms

Questions from listeners

What's the story on Prism for Silverlight 2? What's the story for enterprise Apps? (Chris Bilson)
What's being done to encourage enterprise adoption, in a climate where many enterprise shops are still on IE6? (Eric Kemp)
What's IE's relationship with Silverlight? (Matt Hamilton)

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Episode 21: Real World Development Oct 10, 2008

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Episode 21

This week Jon leads a discussion of real world development. We talk about how our development practices in our jobs and personal projects match up with the way we're "supposed to be" developing. Topics:

What are the non-negotiable practices that we always use on any code we write?
Jon isn't always Test Driven. Does that make him a bad person?
Where do code reuse and maintainability stack up when it comes to other real world priorities, like hard deadlines and short technology lifespans?
Is there a place for "forms over data" development? How about System.DraggyDroppy?

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**Episode 20: Ted Leung on open source in the corporate world** Oct 03, 2008
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**Episode 20**
This week we talk to Ted Leung. Ted works on dynamic languages and tools at Sun Microsystems and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. We discussed a variety of issues, including:

Ted's wild ride through Apple, Apache, the Open Source Application Foundation, and Sun

How open source development can benefit software companies as well as the development community

How open source has worked for Apple, Sun, and IBM

Microsoft and open source

JavaFX

Chandler: what is it, what it does well, and where it disappoints

**Links**

Ted's blog

Ted's post: Adobe Wants To Be The Microsoft Of The Web

Slides from Ted's OSCON talk on Open Source Community Anti-Patterns (pdf)

The Starfish and The Spider (wikipedia)

The Chandler Project

Info on Taligent (wikipedia)

Ted's old blog

**Download / Listen** Herding Code 20: Ted Leung on Open Source in the corporate world

Episode 19: Pajama Driven Development (working remote) Sep 26, 2008

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Episode 19

This week Scott K leads a discussion on remote work, remote access technologies, and synchronization software:

What software and services help with remote development
The joy of being your own network admin
Source control implications (TFS, Subversion, GIT)
The social tradeoff - fewer incidental conversations, more intentional conversations
Remote access software
Synchronization software

Links

GE moving from Google Docs to Zoho
Wired: Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet
VisualSVN
Terminals (multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client)
Foldershare
Windows Live Mesh
Microsoft SharedView
Dropbox

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Episode 18: Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming Sep 19, 2008

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Episode 18

This week Matt Podwysocki puts the fun in functional programming with a deep dive into F#. We've heard plenty of high level discussions of F# and functional programming lately, so we tried to dig into the gory details as much as possible: