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**Herding Code**

A technology podcast with Jon Galloway, Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon

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Episode 16: Interviewing Software Developers Sep 05, 2008

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Episode 16

This week Kevin leads a discussion on interviewing software developers:

What interview styles we find effective
What sort of questions actually help us evaluate a candidate
Why API trivia and puzzle questions don't work
Hiring mistakes we've made based on errors in our interview style
Why we don't do very well when the tables are turned and it's our turn to be interviewed

Download / Listen Herding Code 16: Interviewing Software Developers

**Episode 15: Chris Tavares on Unity, P&P, Rotor, MVC, and EntLib** Aug 29, 2008
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**Episode 15**
This week we talk with Chris Tavares, a developer on the Microsoft patterns & practices team, where he was the lead developer on Unity. He is also a virtual member of the ASP.NET MVC team, helping to design the new framework. Back in the day, he helped test out the effect of reference counting on .NET by building an experimental version of Rotor. Links:

Chris' blog

Unity

Rotor - Reference Counting (word doc)

patterns & practices

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Episode 14: Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) talks about StackOverflow Aug 21, 2008

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Episode 14

This week, we talk with Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) about his soon to be released developer Q&A site, StackOverflow.com. Links:

CodingHorror.com (Jeff's blog)
The StackOverflow blog
Robert Scoble's post on StackOverflow (no, it didn't make him cry)
Jeff's post about using OpenID on StackOverflow

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Episode 13: Back To Basics (but which ones?) Aug 15, 2008

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Episode 13

This week, we talk about the "back to basics" movement, which begs the question: what are the basics? Download / Listen HerdingCode 13: Back To Basics (but which ones?)

Episode 12: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (part 2) Aug 08, 2008

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Episode 12

This is the second half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he's been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Be sure to listen to part 1 first or Glenn's crazytalk about MEF will spin your head around. Links:

Glenn's Prism posts - http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
Prism - www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
Unity - http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
MEF - http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
MEF CTP - http://code.msdn.com/MEF
Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

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Episode 11: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (part 1) Aug 01, 2008

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Episode 11

This is the first half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he's been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Links:

Glenn's Prism posts - http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
Prism - www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
Unity - http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
MEF - http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
MEF CTP - http://code.msdn.com/MEF
Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

Reminder: Geek Dinner with Jon, Kevin, and Jeff Atwood at the Pyramid Alehouse in Berkeley on 8/2 at 7 PM. Download / Listen Episode 11: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (Part 1)

Episode 10: LINQ Jul 23, 2008

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Episode 10

K Scott leads us in a discussion of LINQ, including:

What is it
How introducing LINQ to .NET changed the framework
LINQ Providers
LINQ to XML
LINQ to SQL - how it's different from EF, tips and tricks, when to use it

Links:

LINQpad
3rd Party LINQ providers list on OakLeaf Systems blog
LINQ to Everything providers list on Charlie Calvert's blog
CLINQ (continuous LINQ)
HTML Agility Pack
Evolution of LINQ (MSDN Magazine article on LINQ's history and impact on .NET)
LINQ to SQL Debugger Visualizer
Two LINQ to SQL Myths
Rob's Not So Lazy MVC Storefront
Ian Cooper's Architecting LINQ to SQL applications series
Background Motion
Linq2SQL designer refresh add-in

Also, Scott Koon was gone this week. We did our best to make sure you wouldn't notice. Download / Listen Herding Code 10: LINQ

Episode 9: Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefront, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad Jul 16, 2008

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Episode 9

This week, we catch up with Rob Conery. Topics:

SubSonic 2.1
Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion
Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky
MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer
What else is Rob up to at Microsoft

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Download / Listen: Episode 9: Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefront, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad

Episode 8: Virtual Machines Jul 10, 2008

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Episode 8

This week, we discuss the use of virtual machines in software development. Topics:

Industry trends
VMware vs. Virtual PC (and other virtualization technologies)
Should you develop in a VM?
VM Tips and tricks

Links:

Jeff (codinghorror) Atwood's post on creating smaller virtual machines.
Keeping clean and small virtual machines
Invirtus vOptimizer
Virtual Appliance Marketplace
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
Virtual PC Guy's Weblog
Virtualization.Info
IETester

Download / Listen: Herding Code 8: Virtual Machines

Episode 7: Why Don't Startups Run On Microsoft? Jul 04, 2008

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Episode 7

In this episode of Herding Code, we discuss the pro's and con's of building a startup on the Microsoft stack. We talk about a lot of issues:

Licensing cost
Availability and cost of developers
Development environments and tools
Relative costs of software vs. development time
Thoughts on whether Microsoft should ship Visual Studio Express with Windows
Those few companies who start on one stack and switch as they get larger
How, in the end, it all comes down to execution

Along the way, K. Scott regales us with the tale of his run-in with the FBI, flees the podcast, and finds a way to sneak back on the call. Shenanigans! Herding Code 7: Why don't startups run on Microsoft? (Download) My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-29d2d38db468bc87645363c074f2957c}

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