.NET Rocks!

By Carl Franklin and Richard CampbellTechnology

.NET Rocks! episodes

July 21, 2011 Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google
Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams late of Microsoft, now at Google. Recently moved to Palo Alto, Brad talks about Google+, Google's social networking application for sharing thoughts, pictures and video. Brad has just joined the team to start developing API for developers to work with Google+. The conversation moves onto Google's Web Toolkit and App Engine, products Brad spent his first year at Google on. Brad digs into his thinking around building platforms, what it really means to compile, and his experiences in different company cultures.

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45 min
July 19, 2011 Rey Bango is all about Javascript
Carl and Richard talk to Rey Bango from Microsoft about his web development career. Rey has deep ties into the Javascript community and talks about how Javascript development process has evolved. Today Rey takes care of the Script Junkies web site at Microsoft with some awesome cross browser content and code. The conversation also digs into the state of HTML 5 and it's potential in mobile development. Rey also walks through his tool kit of Javascript libraries. The show closes with a discussion about jsMentors, a site focused on helping Javascript developers improve.

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53 min
July 14, 2011 Sebastien Lambla Builds OpenRasta
Carl and Richard talk to Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta and OpenWrap. OpenRasta is a framework for simplifying building resource-oriented web-based applications. OpenRasta can work with ASP.NET or directly with HTTP.SYS. OpenRasta will work side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC, Webforms and more. Sebastien also talks about OpenWrap, a package manager for .NET that helps OpenRasta stay lean but extensible. Sebastien also speaks passionately about the role of Open Source in the Microsoft community.

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49 min
July 12, 2011 Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen Architect S#arply
Carl and Richard talk to Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen about S#arp architecture. S#arp architecture provides guidance on how to build ASP.NET MVC applications with nHibernate. It follows Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design principles very closely. The conversation also jumped over to StyleCop, the CodePlex project for standardizing code standards and Templify, an open source tool for building T4 templates.

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51 min
July 07, 2011 Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC
One more show from NDC - a silly one. Late in the conference, Carl and Richard talked to Uncle Bob Martin about professionalism, clean code and the Clojure language. Lots of jokes and giggling in this one - we were all getting a little punchy!

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36 min
July 05, 2011 Mobile Development Panel Discussion from NDC!
What, another mobile panel? Yes - a totally different one. This mobile panel discussion was recorded at the Norwegian Developer Conference. Lots of strong debate about HTML 5 vs. native applications, the power and problems of PhoneGap and how app stores are breaking down. Not to be missed!

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52 min
June 30, 2011 Scott Guthrie at NDC!
Fresh off his keynote at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Scott Guthrie dropped into the fishbowl to talk to Carl and Richard about his new role with the Azure team. Scott digs into how Azure has evolved and his focus on improving the developer experience. The conversation wraps up with a chat about the upcoming Build conference.

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44 min
June 28, 2011 Ingo Rammer Builds Native HTML 5 Apps
While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard talk to Ingo Rammer about building 'native' HTML 5 apps. Ingo talks about PhoneGap, a wrapper over HTML for building applications that run on all mobile platforms. But then he goes further, talking about other variations on the idea of using HTML 5 as the presentation markup while still being able to connect to the native resources of the platform. Could this be the programming platform of the future?

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51 min
June 23, 2011 Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security!
While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Dominick Baier to talk about claims-based security. Dominick walks through the entire claims-based security process, separating identity claims from resource claims, how to actually work with active directory in a sensible way and how the whole thing comes together in your code in a way that won't make you cry every time you need to make a change. The time for claims-based security is now!

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41 min
June 21, 2011 Stories from NDC!
While at the Norwegian Developer Conference, Carl and Richard collected a couple of stories from the speakers at the event. First up is Magnus Mårtensson and Björn Ekengren talking about Java on Azure. No really! Next, Gill Cleeran and Kevin Dockx talk about where Silverlight is going... to version five and beyond!

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47 min