CodeCast Episode 112: Windows 8 Developer Roadmap with Mary Jo FoleyIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Mary Jo Foley discuss developer related news and details from the Microsoft Build Windows conference focusing on Windows 8. Topics include: Windows 8 Metro vs desktop apps, Windows 8 on ARM, Visual Studio 11 (2012), Expression Blend 5, HTML5/JavaScript/CSS, XAML, C#, VB, WinRT, WinJS, .NET 4.5, IE 10, Metro app async contracts, Silverlight, Windows 8 Server, Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Phone, Windows Live, Windows Store, and overall the roadmap for Windows platform development. Length: 01:19:21   Mary Jo Foley - Blog: http://allaboutmicrosoft.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/MaryJoFoley Ken Levy - http://twitter.com/KenLevy Windows Developer Center – http://dev.windows.com Build sessions online: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011 Twit.tv Windows Weekly – http://twit.tv/ww Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 111: Ruby on Rails with Claudio LassalaIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, a long time Microsoft MVP, member of the extended EPS Software team, and contributor to CODE magazine. Claudio discusses his new found passion for Ruby on Rails, how it compares to ASP.NET MVC, Ruby, and IronRuby. Various developer tools for Ruby on Rails is also discussed. Claudio will be the instructor for an in-person and online training class on Ruby on Rails for CODE Training on Nov 10th. Guest ·         Blog: http://lassala.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala Links ·         http://rubyonrails.org   ·         http://codemag.com/training Length: 50:34 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob CollazoIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Rob Collazo of Rackspace. Rob is a systems engineer who also runs their social media team, and was one of the first sys admins hired at Rackspace working for co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Rob discusses a wide range of topics related to the various services offered by Rackspace including hosted services such as managed, cloud, hybrid, SaaS application, e-commerce, corporate website, and developer/test environments. For managed hosting, Rob outlines the differences between private clouds, managed co-location (colo), single server config, and cloud servers. Additional details covered include trends, benefits, pricing, support services, and development scenarios. Guest ·         Rob Collazo - Blog: http://www.collazo.ws, Twitter: http://twitter.com/rcollazo Links ·         http://rackspace.com ·         Rackspace Cloud Hosting Demos ·         CloudU (Cloud University and Training) Length: 53:30 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth MassiIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy talks with Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion and manager for LightSwitch, Visual Studio based business applications, and Visual Basic developers. In this special episode, Beth discusses the official release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with the latest news and resources including availability, pricing, optionally deploying to Azure, extensibility model, and the growing ecosystem with vendors plus the Visual Studio Gallery. Guest ·         Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi Links ·         LightSwitch Developer Center - http://msdn.com/lightswitch ·         LightSwitch Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/lightswitch   ·         LightSwitch 2011 on Microsoft Store Length: 32:56 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 108: Google+ and Social Media TrendsIn this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Ken Levy discuss news around Google+ and how it and other social media services relate to developer and work related communications. Links ·         http://plus.google.com   Length: 39:30 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 107: Cloud and/or Client Computing with Dr. Neil RoodynIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn discussion the differences and scenarios around cloud and client computing. Topics includes applications running in the cloud, documents hosted in the cloud, and rich/smart clients that use the cloud as part of the solution, with more and more of a mixture of client and cloud within applications rather than one versus the other. Guest ·         Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil, nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au Length: 33:36 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 106: C# and Delphi Community with Charlie CalvertIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Charlie Calvert who discusses his past at Borland working on Delphi and at Microsoft working on C#. Topics include Charlie’s career history, communities, book authoring, and developer education. Charlie is currently a professor teaching C# at the Bellevue Community College in Washington, and has authored and co-authored many developer books over the past 15 years. Originally trained as an English major, Charlie worked as a journalist and college English teacher before turning to the world of computers. Guest ·         Charlie Calvert - http://elvenware.com/charlie Length: 01:06:00 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 105: Technical Debt with Gary Short and Markus EggerIn this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss technical debt. Technical dept is like financial dept, but instead of borrowing money you're borrowing time. Taking a shortcut in an architectural or software decision to save time when at a future date you need to come back and fix or enhance that shortcut. The more shortcuts you take postponing required coding, the more technical dept you build up. The discussion includes the benefits, sacrifices, trade-offs, costs, and other issues around actions and decisions that revolve around technical dept. Links ·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt Length: 01:16:08 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 104: Visual Studio LightSwitch with Beth MassiIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the latest features and resources for the new version of Visual Studio Lightswitch, deployment scenarios, and a quick intro to the extensibility model. Guest ·         Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi Links ·         LightSwitch Developer Center - http://msdn.com/lightswitch ·         LightSwitch Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/lightswitch   Length: 47:44 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 103: DevTeach with Jean-Rene Roy In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jean-Rene Roy (aka JR), founder and organizer of the DevTeach conferences in Canada. JR goes into details on the history of DevTeach, the great topics and speakers, the networking and community benefits, satellite events before and after the conference (many are free like State of .NET by EPS Software / CODE Magazine), what to expect at the next DevTeach event in May 2011, and the roadmap for DevTeach events in the upcoming next few years. Links·         http://devteach.com·         http://facebook.com/devteach Length: 53:30 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])