While on the Road Trip, Carl and Richard recorded this panel discussion with Talbott Crowell, Rick Minerich and Richard Hale Shaw on F#. The panel makes a very compelling case for adding a functional language to your toolchest.

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Brandon Watson from the Windows Phone 7 team tells Carl and Richard how his job is to delight developers, and he's doing just that! Windows Phone 7 represents a veritable gold rush for developers this year, next year, and beyond.

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We know, this was supposed to be that Atlanta road trip show. Turns out that show is on an SD card en route to New London. Meantime, enjoy this great show with Matthew Podwysocki about the Reactive Extentions.

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Jesse MacFadyen and Filip Maj talk to Carl and Richard about PhoneGap, an open source project for supporting rich applications on a large variety of mobile devices.

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Brian Harry talks about his experiences at Microsoft on the Visual Source Safe team and the TFS team, and his favorite new ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) features of Visual Studio.

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Mark and Karen talk with Carl and Richard about inspiring kids to greatness and fostering wonder in them. As well, Mark reflects on some of the more fun projects he's worked on, and answers the question... where does the mad genius come from?

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Ivar Jacobson comes back to .NET Rocks, this time as a special guest on the Road Trip. He talks about Microsoft's re-embrace of UML, his work on Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT), and tells a few Bill Gates stories as well.

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Chris Sells joins Carl and Richard on the Road Trip at Microsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chris is working on guidance for when to use what Microsoft Technologies in the data stack: OData, EF, RIA Services, et al.

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Rocky and Jay talk with Carl and Richard about the Visual Studio designer experience: XAML vs Cider, as well as ruminations on Silverlight and WPF.

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Kate Gregory talks about programming for Windows 7. As well, we have a discussion about the lack of real-world preparation in University for software developers.

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