This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Eric Lawrence, the author of the popular Fiddler web debugging proxy. Eric’s also a member of the Internet Explorer team and developer of several popular freeware tools. Eric explains how he’s been working on – and now runs – the team that works on the networking […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk REST with Glenn Block (who’s driving the WCF Web APIs), Darrel Miller (a REST expert with a lot of real world production experience), and John Sheehan (author of RestSharp) about what REST really is and what practical value it really offers in real world, production applications. Jon […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Trevor Burnham about Coffeescript, “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.” Kevin asks Trevor to explain what CoffeeScript is. Trevor explains how CoffeeScript helps you to write the same code you would have in JavaScript, but more quickly and with less effort. Kevin ask if people […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Mark Russinovich about his new book (Zero Day), modern malware like Stuxnet, his experiences discovering the Sony rootkit, Sysinternals tools, and computer security in general. K Scott asks Mark about how he decided to write Zero Day. Mark talks about how early, unsophisticated viruses still caused […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller about what’s new with FubuMVC. Jeremy Miller explains why FubuMVC "deserves to exist" and explains how compositional architecture and conventions help in building complex systems. Josh talks about how FubuMVC diagnostics help in understanding how the conventions are being applied how […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to John Papa about the Open Source Fest he put together at MIX11. Jon asks how the whole thing got started, and if John encountered any friction within Microsoft in getting this set up. John describes the event and calls out some of the winners from the […]

This episode of Herding Code Kevin and Jon sit down with Geoff and Jarrod at MIX to talk about their experiences from helping to build the first StackOverflow site up through today’s fast paced world of StackExchanges and gold plated Lamborghinis. Note: We recorded in quietest spot we could find – there’s some background noise, […]

This episode of Herding Code the guys talk to the organizers of the Harmony Hackathon: twelve developers coding madly for 48 hours, trying to build an application for the non-profit Harmony Hill cancer retreat center. Eric talks about the Harmony Hackathon came together and what they were trying to accomplis. Jon asks about how things […]

This episode of Herding Code continues a discussion / argument that Jon started with Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Twitter a few weeks ago after reading a post he liked from a product designer at Quora about how they don’t use Photoshop in their design process. What’s the role of visual design in the […]

In this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk nonsense for over an hour. Topic: The Apple Store 30% fee for App Subscriptions – who’s surprised, what apps will it affect, etc. The conversation shifts to Kindle, and whether content focused apps can move to HTML only. Topic: Windows Mobile deal with Nokia – will […]