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Episode 36: Scott Watermasysk


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Episode 36

This week, the Herding Code cast talks shop with Scott Watermasysk about cloud computing, blogging platforms, Internet Explorer, the DotNetOpenId project and much more:
  • Scott W, Scott K and Jon discuss Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
  • Jon asks Scott W to share his thoughts on blogging platforms and the difficulties around their development due to their many edge cases and full feature set.
  • Scott W answers a listener question about his thoughts on Silverlight.
  • Scott K, Jon and Scott W rant about corporations continuing to run IE6, why IE8 killed Scott W’s inner child and why, oh why, won’t Microsoft just rewrite Internet Explorer already.
  • Scott W shares his strategy for evaluating and learning new technologies and how to successfully manage remote development teams.
  • Scott W and the guys talk about the demise of SQL and the higher dependency on ORMs and traditional database alternatives like CouchDB.
  • Scott W comments on Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC and whether these technologies help solve his customers’ problems today.
  • Show Links:
    • Scott Watermasysk’s blog – http://simpable.com
    • Telligent - http://telligent.com/
    • Community Server - http://communityserver.com/
    • Community Server Evolution - http://telligent.com/products/community-server-evolution/
    • Azure - http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
    • Amazon Web Services - http://aws.amazon.com/
    • Google App Engine - http://code.google.com/appengine/
    • Mix 2009 - http://2009.visitmix.com/
    • CouchDB - http://couchdb.apache.org/
    • BigTable - http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
    • SubText - http://www.subtextproject.com/
    • BlogEngine.NET - http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
    • .Text – http://forums.asp.net/149.aspx
    • .Text on GotDotNet (web archive)
    • Oxite - http://www.codeplex.com/oxite
    • Zawinski’s Law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski's_Law_of_Software_Envelopment#Quotes
    • IE8 - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx
    • Gecko - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko
    • WebKit - http://webkit.org/
    • Browser Speeds Test - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html
    • Silverlight - http://silverlight.net/
    • MEF - http://www.codeplex.com/MEF
    • The Greatest Scott of Them All - http://weblogs.asp.net/Scottgu/
    • dotnetopenid Project - http://code.google.com/p/dotnetopenid/
    • CardSpace - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480189.aspx
    • NHibernate - http://www.hibernate.org/343.html
    • Subsonic - http://subsonicproject.com/
    • Entity Framework - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697427(vs.80).aspx
    • Apology-Based Computing - http://simpable.com/software/apology-based-computing/
    • Eric Evan’s Book – http://domaindrivendesign.org/books/index.html#DDD
    • Tokbox - http://www.tokbox.com/
    • Velocity - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&displaylang=en
    • ASP.NET MVC - http://www.asp.net/mvc/
    • Phil Haack - http://www.haacked.com/
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