Herding Code

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April 03, 2009Episode 41: Next Generation Twitter Client Discussion At MIX09
Episode 41
While at MIX09, Jon sat in on a brainstorming discussion about next generation Twitter clients running on WPF and Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer, Chris Bennage, and Alan Le. This was originally just recorded for a few people who couldn't be there for our meeting, but we had enough positive feedback that we're publishing it as a podcast.

DISCLAIMER: This was recorded in a noisy room, and while I've done what I can to eliminate background noise and even out the vocal levels, the audio quality is poor (even by Herding Code standards). You've been warned.

Thanks to Tim, Chris, and Alan for giving their permission to publish this.

Show Links:

Tim Heuer - http://timheuer.com - @timheuer

Chris Bennage - http://bluespire.com/blogs - @bennage

Alan Le - http://alanle.com/ - @a7an

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April 01, 2009Episode 40: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 and RIA Services
Episode 40
This week on Herding Code, the full cast talks to Shawn Wildermuth about Silverlight 3 and RIA Services:

Shawn talks about shared code, validation rules logic and general line of business application development with RIA Service and the guys become skeptically about RIA Service's good and bad magic.

Kevin's draggy-droppy spidey senses kick in and asks if RIA Services merely demos well. Shawn speaks candidly about nobody knowing if RIA Services will work well in the wild (will it scale, for example) and encourages everyone to download and play with the bit and provide feedback.

Scott K asks why he should even care about RIA Services, comments on how this is another example of building plumbing code frameworks in a vacuum, scoffs at Microsoft products like Silverlight, OSLO and Windows Workflow Foundation and goes so far to ask if is it too early for a RIA Service Vote of No Confidence. In response, Shawn has some fun with Scott K and defends RIA Services along with some of the Microsoft development teams. Shawn also shares his enthusiasm about OLSO.

Kevin questions Microsoft's choice in terminology. Does RIA Services really speak to what the framework does?

K Scott and Shawn briefly discuss the RIA Service's TDD story and touch upon SilverUnit.

Jon and Shawn discuss their favorite new Silverlight features which include direct writing of pixels and audio, Silverlight out of browser, and behaviors.

The guys do a quick wrap up of Mix09 announcements and talk about Sketchflow's designer focus and cynically talk about its unavailability.

To the delight of those on the call, Jon talks about Expression Web SuperrrPreeevieewww!

And there's a special guest question from Rachel Appel and a Twitter question from Scott Watermasysk.

Show Links:

Shawn Wildermuth's blog - http://wildermuth.com/

Silverlight Tour - http://silverlight-tour.com/, http://agilitrain.com

Shawn's MSDN Article on MVVM - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458800.aspx

Shawn's MSDN Articles on OSLO and DSLs - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441702.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd548006.aspx

Shawn's Recent Articles - http://wildermuth.com/Articles

Shawn's MSDN Article on Prism - Coming soon

Rachel Appel - http://rachelappel.com/

Nikhil Kothari - http://www.nikhilk.net

Brad Abrams - http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/

Nikhil Kothari's MIX09 Session: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T41F

Brad Abrams' MIX09 Session: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T40F

Rocky Lhotka - http://www.lhotka.net/

Scott Watermasysk - http://simpable.com/

SilverUnit - http://cthru.codeplex.com/

Silverlight ToolKit (with Test Framework) - http://silverlight.codeplex.com/

MIX09 - http://live.visitmix.com/

Sketchflow - http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C01F

SuperPreview - http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565874.aspx

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1h 8min
March 25, 2009Episode 39: Scott C. Reynolds on Mac and iPhone Development
Episode 39
This week on Herding Code, Jon, K Scott, Scott K and Kevin talk about Mac/iPhone development with .NET and Ruby developer Scott C. Reynolds.

Show Links:

Scott C. Reynold's blogs - http://scottcreynolds.com, http://lostechies.com/blogs/scottcreynolds

Scott C. Reynold's on Twitter - http://twitter.com/scottcreynolds

Apple Developer Connection - http://developer.apple.com/

Mac Developer Program - http://developer.apple.com/products/mac/program/

iPhone Developer Program - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

Mac OS X Leopard [oh-es-ten lep-erd] - http://www.apple.com/macosx/

XCode - http://developer.apple.com/TOOLS/xcode/

Objective-C (ObjC) - http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/introObjectiveC.html

Beginning Objective C for the C# Guy - http://www.scottcreynolds.com/archive/2009/02/05/beginning-objective-c-for-the-c-guy.aspx

MacRuby - http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby

Cocoa & CocoaTouch - http://developer.apple.com/technology/cocoa.html

OCUnit - http://developer.apple.com/tools/unittest.html

Interface Builder - http://developer.apple.com/tools/interfacebuilder.html

Carbon - http://developer.apple.com/Carbon/

Human Interface Guidelines - http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html

AppStore - http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/

Mono - http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Miguel de Icaza - http://tirania.org/blog/

Unity - http://unity3d.com/

Boo - http://boo.codehaus.org/

Day of Ruby - Tampa (May 16th, 2009) - http://tampa.dayofruby.com/

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54min
March 13, 2009Episode 38: NHibernate performance with Ayende, David Penton, and Ben Scheirman
Episode 38
While K Scott and Jon were at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit, we listened in on a late night debate on NHibernate performance between Oren Eini (a.k.a. Ayende Rahein), David Penton, and Ben Scheirman.

Show Links:

NHibernate - http://nhforge.org

Ayende's blog - http://ayende.com

David Penton's blog - http://pentonizer.com

Ben Scheirman's blog - http://flux88.com

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45min
March 07, 2009Episode 37: Jon Udell
Episode 37
This week on Herding Code, Jon leads a talk with Microsoft Technical Evangelist Jon Udell, about strategies for Internet citizens. That is, making public information available for retrieval and manipulation through structured data feeds and Internet standards. The group discusses related topics like digital identity and OpenID and shares their thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, dynamic languages like IronPython.

Show Links:

Jon Udell's blog - http://blog.jonudell.net/

Byte Magazine - http://www.ddj.com/

Practical Internet Groupware - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925373/

InfoWorld - http://www.infoworld.com/

USASpending.gov - http://usaspending.gov/

Azure - http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx

IronPython - http://ironpython.codeplex.com/

ElmCity - http://elmcity.info/

Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) - http://www.xbrl.org/Home/

Drupal - http://drupal.org/

Google calendar - http://calendar.google.com/

RSS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Doug Day, .NET iCalendar Library - http://www.ddaysoftware.com/Pages/Default.aspx

Ben Fortuna, Java, icalforJ - http://ical4j.sourceforge.net/

iCalendar Specification (RFC 2445) - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

Delicious - http://delicious.com/

iCalender Validation - http://icalvalid.wikidot.com/

LibriVox - http://librivox.org/

Douglas Purdy - www.douglasp.com

Oslo - http://www.douglaspurdy.com/2008/09/06/what-is-oslo/

DSL - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html

Don Box - http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/dbox/

Dynamic Languages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language

Chris Anderson/Don Box Keynote - http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN03/

Live Services - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/live/default.aspx

REST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

OpenId - http://openid.net/

CardSpace - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480189.aspx

Phil Windley - http://phil.windley.org/

Kynetx - http://www.kynetx.com/

Digital Identity - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596008789/

Kim Cameron - http://www.identityblog.com/

Gillmore Gang - http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/

IT Conversations - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/

Web Hooks - http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/

SpokenWord.org - http://www.spokenword.org/

Lucas Gonze - http://gonze.com/about/

Webjay - http://webjay.org/

Katya Oddio - http://www.oddiooverplay.com/here/about.html

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1h 21min
February 20, 2009Episode 36: Scott Watermasysk
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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Episode 36: Scott Watermasysk
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February 15, 2009Episode 35: Fun at work
Episode 35
This week on Herding Code, K. Scott kicks off an amusing conversation about office pranks and general fun in the workplace:
Jon explains why you might send goat pictures to your coworkers.

Kevin comments about the hazards of new carpet installation.

K. Scott talks about making an HP Printer come to life.

And learn why you must always, always keep one eye on Jon when he's working...
Show Links:
Fun With C# and HP Laserjets - http://www.odetocode.com/humor/68.aspx

Goating - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000997.html

Favorite Harmless Computer Practical Joke - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65116/whats-your-favorite-harmless-computer-practical-joke

Google April Fools - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes, http://www.pcworld.com/article/142620/googles_top_17_easter_eggs_gags_and_hoaxes.html

Kindle 2 - http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Generation/dp/B00154JDAI/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1234330860&sr=1-1

Apple Asks Google to Not Use Multi-Touch - http://www.pcworld.com/article/159260/google_backs_off_multitouch_to_please_apple_report_claims.html

Microsoft Announcement of Windows 7 Versions - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1890

Android Multi-touch Capable, Just Disabled - http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/news/2008/11/18/Android-Multi-touch-Capable--Just-Disabled/p1

Cooked Windows Mobile ROMS http://xda-developers.com
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53min
February 06, 2009Episode 34: *Chirp and Witty - WPF Twitter Clients
Episode 34
This week on Herding Code, Jon, Kevin and Scott K discuss *Chirp (since renamed blu), Witty, Twitter usage, open source and WPF development:
The guys review *Chirp, a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23. Scott compares *Chirp to Paris Hilton, Jon reminisces about old Simpsons episodes and Kevin shares that *Chirp is very pretty, nicely designed, and what WPF is all about.

Kevin, Jon and Scott discuss their involvement with the Witty project. The guys talk about their favorite features, most wanted enhancements, and how they hope the project will evolve going forward. Jon subtly promises a Witty Easter Egg.

The guys briefly talk about Twitter, how they manage their “rivers of information” and how varying strategies makes Twitter client design/development difficult. Not to mention what is/isn’t available via the Twitter API…

Jon and Scott comment on drive-by contributors and general challenges of open source development.

The guys candidly talk about learning/knowing WPF and the difficulties of debugging WPF applications without tools. Kevin shares how WPF violates the principle of least surprise and Jon shares why making a textbox’s background is difficult.
Note: *Chirp has since been renamed to blu. We tried to get the folks from thirteen23 on the podcast, but we didn't hear back grom them until after this show was published. We still love them, though!
Show Links:
Witty - http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/

blu - http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/

Snoop - http://blois.us/Snoop/

Silverlight Spy - http://silverlightspy.com/silverlightspy/introduction/

Spy++ - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242713(VS.60).aspx

ClickOnce - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa497348.aspx

Alan Le - http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/alanl/Blog

WPF Twitter - http://www.codeplex.com/WPFTwitter

Model/View/ViewModel (MVVM) - http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/archive/2005/10/08/478683.aspx

TweetDeck - http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Adam Kinney - http://www.adamkinney.com/

photoSuru - http://www.photosuru.com/

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - http://www.codeplex.com/MEF

WPF Commands - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752308.aspx

Laurent Bugnionhttp://www.galasoft.ch/

RSS Bandit - http://rssbandit.org/
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1h 2min
January 30, 2009Episode 33: Intertube Inauguration and Questions From Listeners
Episode 33
This week Kevin leads a discussion about the inauguration on the web, then we field some questions from listeners.
Topics
Live inauguration video on Silverlight sites

Photosynth picture of the inauguration

whitehouse.gov on webforms - will Viewstate bring down the presidency?

Armchair quarterbacking the whitehouse.gov site

whitehouse.gov updates robots.txt

And Twitter didn't die!

Question - What is the one thing I should learn this year

- K. Scott - SOLID, dynamic languages, WPF

- Jon - Pick something, declarative UI, get involved in something

- Kevin - SOLID Principles, WPF

Question - Comparing working in Web, RIA, and WPF

Side discussion: What's the deal with ClickOnce?

Whoa! Scott Koon joins us mid-call!

Quick discussion of jQuery 1.3

Question - What is the one thing Scott K wants to learn this year?

- Scott K. - Expressions

- K. Scott - I agree that Scott K should learn expressions

Side discussion: Why are companies so slow to upgrade .NET versions?

- Jon - Go, go, go!

- K. Scott - Not enough must-have features

- Kevin - Requires customers to upgrade
Links
Presidential Inauguration Commission website

CBS Inauguration info

Inauguration Photosynth

whitehouse.gov
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56min
January 18, 2009Episode 32: Windows 7 First Impressions
Episode 32
This week Jon leads a discussion about our first impressions of Windows 7 Beta 1.
Topics
Previously bundled features are now distribued via Windows Live - good or bad?

Is the Windows Live suite just a standardized crapware?

Where's our Photo Gallery?

Windows Marketplace???

Missing an ISO Mounter

The out of box experience

Window docking

Windows Explorer - side by side

Discoverability - shortcuts, etc.

"New features" that were already in Vista

New Wordpad and Paint with ribbons

Same old Notepad

Kevin's underwhelmed with the updates to Paint

Could Windows Live Essentials include some friends, like Paint.NET?

Hey, a new calculator!

Problem Steps Recorder

Send Feedback

Nothing new for Remote Desktop?

Virtual Hard Drive support, but we want application virtualization

Multitouch

Distribution - why not via BitTorrent?

IE8 is still the same old IE8 that we know and meh

Windows Scenic Animation API

Looks like the API's still all C++ and COM

The Vista Bridge project

The Ribbon control has graduated from an Office control to Windows

No WPF?

Jumplists
Links
Windows 7 Beta Download

Windows Live Essentials

PowerISO (note - the free version works just fine)

Tim Sneath's list of Windows 7 secrets

andLinux

Problem Steps Recorder

Windows Scenic Animation API [overview] [whitepaper]

Vista Bridge Sample Library
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52min

FAQs about Herding Code:

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