.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward during the Live Weekend. They cover the acquisition of Sun by Oracle and the potential for Oracle to muster a significant move in the development marketplace. Ted also talks about his exploring of other languages, including Objective-C for the iPhone. The conversation also explores how Oracle will have to rationalize their collection of databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres.

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A great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield from Vertigo. Scott discusses Vertigo's work around building video players for the NFL, Olympics and more. The conversation drives into how the advertising models around these events work.

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Regional Director and MVP Richard Hundhausen takes a new look at Scrum.

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A show from the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Brian Noyes talks about what's coming up in the latest incarnation of Prism.

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Jay Schmelzer takes the wraps off Microsoft LightSwitch, a new tool that promises to significantly reduce the complexity involved in producing line of business applications for the cloud and the desktop.

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Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hanselman (yeah, *that* Scott Hanselman) about WebMatrix, a new set of tools added to the Web Platform Installer to make building and deploying web sites much easier.

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Another great .NET Rocks Live Weekend show, Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad, Richard's partner in crime at Strangeloop. Kent talks about his latest thoughts on making web sites go faster.

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During the .NET Rocks Live Weekend, Carl and Richard talked to Glenn Block - discovering he was no longer with the MEF team, but was still a MEF head.

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Jerry Schulist from Tribune company talks to Carl and Richard about Tribune's embrace of Microsoft Azure.

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Matt Jubelirer from Microsoft talks with Carl and Richard about Silverlight PivotViewer, a radical new tool based on Deep Zoom for conceptualizing data.

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