CodeCast
112 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsCodeCast is The Late Night Show for .NET Developers, put on by CODE Magazine and your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger
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CodeCast Episode 112: Windows 8 Developer Roadmap with Mary Jo Foley
September 21, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 112: Windows 8 Developer Roadmap with Mary Jo Foley In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Mary Jo Foley discuss developer related news and details from the Microsoft Build Windows conference focusing on Windows 8. Topics include: Windows 8 Metro vs desktop apps, Windows 8 on ARM, Visual Studio 11 (2012), Expression Blend 5, HTML5/JavaScript/CSS, XAML, C#, VB, WinRT, WinJS, .NET 4.5, IE 10, Metro app async contracts, Silverlight, Windows 8 Server, Azure, Hyper-V, Windows...
CodeCast Episode 111: Ruby on Rails with Claudio Lassala
September 06, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 111: Ruby on Rails with Claudio Lassala In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, a long time Microsoft MVP, member of the extended EPS Software team, and contributor to CODE magazine. Claudio discusses his new found passion for Ruby on Rails, how it compares to ASP.NET MVC, Ruby, and IronRuby. Various developer tools for Ruby on Rails is also discussed. Claudio will be the instructor for an in-person and online training class on Ruby on Rails for CO...
CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo
August 11, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Rob Collazo of Rackspace. Rob is a systems engineer who also runs their social media team, and was one of the first sys admins hired at Rackspace working for co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Rob discusses a wide range of topics related to the various services offered by Rackspace including hosted services such as managed, cloud, hybrid, SaaS application, e-commerce, corporate we...
CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth Massi
July 28, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth Massi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy talks with Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion and manager for LightSwitch, Visual Studio based business applications, and Visual Basic developers. In this special episode, Beth discusses the official release of Visual Studio Li...
CodeCast Episode 108: Google+ and Social Media Trends
July 16, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 108: Google+ and Social Media Trends In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Ken Levy discuss news around Google+ and how it and other social media services relate to developer and work related communications. Links · http://plus.google.com Length: 39:30 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])
CodeCast Episode 107: Cloud and/or Client Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn
June 22, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 107: Cloud and/or Client Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn discussion the differences and scenarios around cloud and client computing. Topics includes applications running in the cloud, documents hosted in the cloud, and rich/smart clients that use the cloud as part of the solution, with more and more of a mixture of client and cloud within applications rather than one versus the other. Guest · Dr. Neil...
CodeCast Episode 106: C# and Delphi Community with Charlie Calvert
May 26, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 106: C# and Delphi Community with Charlie Calvert In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Charlie Calvert who discusses his past at Borland working on Delphi and at Microsoft working on C#. Topics include Charlie’s career history, communities, book authoring, and developer education. Charlie is currently a professor teaching C# at the Bellevue Community College in Washington, and has authored and co-authored many developer books over the past 15 years. Originally t...
CodeCast Episode 105: Technical Debt with Gary Short and Markus Egger
April 15, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 105: Technical Debt with Gary Short and Markus Egger In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss technical debt. Technical dept is like financial dept, but instead of borrowing money you're borrowing time. Taking a shortcut in an architectural or software decision to save time when at a future date you need to come back and fix or enhance that shortcut. The more shortcuts you take postponing required coding, the more technical dept you build up...
CodeCast Episode 104: Visual Studio LightSwitch with Beth Massi
April 12, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 104: Visual Studio LightSwitch with Beth Massi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the latest features and resources for the new version of Visual Studio Lightswitch, deployment ...
CodeCast Episode 103: DevTeach with Jean-Rene Roy
March 21, 2011 04:00CodeCast Episode 103: DevTeach with Jean-Rene Roy In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jean-Rene Roy (aka JR), founder and organizer of the DevTeach conferences in Canada. JR goes into details on the history of DevTeach, the great topics and speakers, the networking and community benefits, satellite events before and after the conference (many are free like State of .NET by EPS Software / CODE Magazine), what to expect at the next DevTeach event in May 2011, and the roadmap for ...
CodeCast Episode 102: Surface 2.0 with Dr. Neil Roodyn
February 09, 2011 05:00CodeCast Episode 102: Surface 2.0 with Dr. Neil Roodyn In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn on the news around the new Microsoft Surface 2.0 announced and shown at CES 2011. Topics include the new Surface 2.0 hardware, software, and scenarios the new version opens the door to, as well as possible use cases for integrating a Surface and a Kinect device. Guest · Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil, nsquared - htt...
CodeCast Episode 101: History of Microsoft with Stuart Johnston
February 01, 2011 05:00CodeCast Episode 101: History of Microsoft with Stuart Johnston In this special episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews long time professional journalist Stuart Johnston on the history of Microsoft, primarily from the start in 1975 to around 2005. Stuart J. Johnston is currently contributing editor for www.internetnews.com and has covered Microsoft as a reporter and columnist for 23 years. He has regularly appeared as the “Tech Expert” on ABC-TV’s Seattle station, as well as on the BBC and...
CodeCast Episode 100: 2010 Year in Review
January 13, 2011 05:00CodeCast Episode 100: 2010 Year in Review In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss 2010 year in review including the following topics: Windows 7, Azure, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Lync, Async CTP, Bing, Windows Live Essentials 2011, IE 9, Silverlight, Kin, Windows Phone 7, Tablet/Slate PCs, Kinect, Surface, Microsoft executives/employee exodus, Microsoft retail stores. Near the end of the show, Ken and Markus review their 2010 predictions and go...
CodeCast Episode 99: Workflow 4 and AppFabric with Maurice de Beijer
December 31, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 99: Workflow 4 and AppFabric with Maurice de Beijer In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Maurice de Beijer, a current Connected Systems MVP and former VB.NET MVP. Maurice discusses the following: Why should developers care about Workflow 4 (WF4) and when is it an appropriate solution. Long running distinct processes like sales order, hiring employees or vacation requests. Using workflows as a scripting language inside your applications. Using the AppFabric to ho...
CodeCast Episode 98: Technical Resources for .NET Developers
December 21, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 98: Technical Resources for .NET Developers In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss various technical resources for developers including Channel 9, social media/networking, RSS with Twitter, Twitter clients, Twitter search, Twitter apps, stackoverfow.com, online ebooks, safari books online, lynda.com, join.me, logmein.com, InstaPaper, and more. Some Twitter feeds mentioned: @MSFTNews, @Microsoft, @Ch9, @VisualStudio, @VSEditor, @MSDN, @OpenAtMi...
CodeCast Episode 97: Microsoft Tag with Didier Caron
November 25, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 97: Microsoft Tag with Didier Caron In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Didier Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands. Didier goes through a detailed introduction of Microsoft Tag, various scenarios of how he has used Tag as a developer at Sparked and for the SDN.nl developer events, creating Tags, scenarios for a wide variety of use cases for Tag, and .NET developer APIs using the Microsoft Tag SDK. Guest · Didier Caron: @dgcaron, Blog: http://dgcaron.w...
CodeCast Episode 96: Cloud Computing with Remi Caron
November 18, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 96: Cloud Computing with Remi Caron In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Remi Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands, and is also president of SDN.nl. Remi discusses in-depth the cloud computing for .NET developers including hosting, application architecture, application hosting (Azure), databases in the cloud (SQL Azure), and the paradigm shift in the business model of the user side of cloud-based applications. Guest · Remi Caron: @The_Undutchable, Blog:...
CodeCast Episode 95: LightSwitch Scenarios with Beth Massi
November 08, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 95: LightSwitch Scenarios with Beth Massi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the overall architecture of LightSwitch, the various phases of developing a LightSwitch application,...
CodeCast Episode 94: PDC 2010 Summary - Silverlight, Azure, Async for C#/VB
November 04, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 94: PDC 2010 Summary - Silverlight, Azure, Async for C#/VB In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss news and announcements from PDC 2010, including the changes in strategy for future versions of Silverlight, Azure, and the announcement of the new Async programming features coming in the next versions of the C# and VB languages. Links · Silverlight and PDC message from Microsoft · http://player.microsoftpdc.com · h...
CodeCast Episode 93: Xamalot.com - Free XAML Resources for WPF and Silverlight
October 22, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 93: Xamalot.com - Free XAML Resources for WPF and Silverlight In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger, Gary Short, and Ken Levy discuss the new Xamalot.com website created by Markus and EPS Software. Xamalot.com is a provider of free clipart and other XAML resources (and most art is also available in other formats, such as PNG or SVG). The first 15 minutes of this show includes news about Windows Phone 7 and pre-PDC event discussions. Links · http://xam...
CodeCast Episode 92: Windows Live Essentials 2011 with Kip Kniskern of LiveSide.net
October 09, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 92: Windows Live Essentials 2011 with Kip Kniskern of LiveSide.net In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kip Kniskern who is the Managing Editor of the LiveSide.net blog and website. Discussion on LiveSide.net, and in-depth on Windows Live Essentials 2011 which includes Messenger, Hotmail, Mail Desktop, Photo Gallery, FrameIt, Movie Maker, Calendar, Groups, Bing Bar, SkyDrive (including Office Web Apps), Mesh, Writer, Live ID, Family Safety, Outlook Connector Pac...
CodeCast Episode 91: Servoy Development Suite with Sean Devlin
September 29, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 91: Servoy Development Suite with Sean Devlin In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sean Devlin, a Senior Technical Engineer at Servoy. Servoy is a cross-platform development and deployment platform - based on a powerful data-centric application server combined with a productive open source developer tool. Servoy applications can be deployed either on premise, hosted or in the Cloud, or as a service (SaaS). While Servoy is Java based, most programming is done via...
CodeCast Episode 90: Surface and Multi-Touch UI with Dr. Neil Roodyn
September 21, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 90: Surface and Multi-Touch UI with Dr. Neil Roodyn In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn with an extended conversation on a variety of topics including the Microsoft Surface, multi-touch applications, Bing Translator, and the Messenger Connect SDK. This discussion is a follow-up from a related CodeCast show with Dr. Neil (#34, July 2009). Guest · Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil Links · ...
CodeCast Episode 89: Windows 7 Development with Ritscher and Wildermuth
September 14, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 89: Windows 7 Development with Ritscher and Wildermuth In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Walt Ritscher and Shawn Wildermuth on the topic of Windows Phone 7 development and marketplace. Discussion includes topics such as tools for creating apps for Windows Phone 7, XNA vs. Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 SDK and API details, the app marketplace, and various details on what to expect for the first version release. Guests · Walt Ritscher - Blog: http://bl...
CodeCast Episode 88: LightSwitch for .NET Developers with Jay Schmelzer
August 17, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 88: LightSwitch for .NET Developers with Jay Schmelzer In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch product with the team’s group program manager Jay Schmelzer. Jay discusses in-depth technical details and insights into LightSwitch including scenarios of who it’s for, developer scenarios, data-driven and modeling architecture, extensibility, ecosystem, version 1 features, and how it fits into the Visual St...
CodeCast Episode 87: PostSharp for VS with Gael Fraiteur
August 01, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 87: PostSharp for VS with Gael Fraiteur In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Gael Fraiteur, developer of PostSharp for Visual Studio. Gael discusses the benefits of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) and how PostSharp for Visual Studio increases productivity of .NET development allowing developers to easily write and apply custom attributes that add new behaviors to code for scenarios including tracing, thread management, exception handling, data binding, and mor...
CodeCast Episode 86: News on Mobile Devices, WebMatrix and Razor
July 23, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 86: News on Mobile Devices, WebMatrix and Razor In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss various news and experiences with mobile device news such as the iPhone 4, iPad, and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. Also discussed, starting at minute marker 56:30, news and scenarios around Microsoft’s recent release of the WebMatrix and Razor web technologies. Links · Microsoft WebMatrix – http://microsoft.com/web/webmatrix and htt...
CodeCast Episode 85: Cool Apps, Utilities, and Tips for Windows, Mac, and iOS
July 03, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 85: Cool Apps, Utilities, and Tips for Windows, Mac, and iOS In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss many useful cool apps, utilities, and tips for power users (developers and non-developers) for the Windows, Mac, and iOS platforms. Topics include: ZoomIt, TweetDeck, Kindle apps, iPhone Disk / iPhone Explorer, Adapter, SharedView, UltraVNC, Remote Desktop, Virtual PC 2007, Zinio, AppDelete, Flash Video, Dash Monitors, iOS SDK emulator, ShowAn...
CodeCast Episode 84: IronPython 2.6.1 for VS 2010 with Jimmy Schementi
June 22, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 84: IronPython 2.6.1 for VS 2010 with Jimmy Schementi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jimmy Schementi who is a program manager on the VS languages team at Microsoft. Jimmy discusses what’s new in IronPython 2.6.1, released in sync with Visual Studio 2010. Included in the discussion is many scenarios of how IronPython can be used as a great additional .NET programming language used by C# and VB developers, using IronPython with Silverlight, and details in th...
CodeCast Episode 83: 10 Years of CODE Magazine with Markus Egger and Rod Paddock
June 19, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 83: 10 Years of CODE Magazine with Markus Egger and Rod Paddock In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger welcome special guest Rod Paddock, editor of CODE Magazine. The original idea of CODE Magazine, owned by EPS Software, was an idea conceived by Markus Egger and Rick Strahl during a trip to Europe in the late 1990s. This special anniversary includes discussions of the history of CODE magazine, behind-the-scenes of publication, artwork, editing, wri...
CodeCast Episode 82: INETA.org with Mike Vincent
June 17, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 82: INETA.org with Mike Vincent In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Mike Vincent, vice president board member of INETA.org. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft .NET user groups. Mike discusses the goals of INETA, how INETA works with local users groups, how user groups can benefit from INETA, and details about the recently added regional speaker program. Gues...
CodeCast Episode 81: CodeRush for VS 2010 with Gary Short
June 11, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 81: CodeRush for VS 2010 with Gary Short In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy discusses with Gary Short what’s new in CodeRush for Visual Studio 2010. Gary goes into details about the highlights of how CodeRush has been enhanced in the latest version, how it leverages many of the cool new IDE and editor features in VS 2010, and the enhanced extensibility model based on DXCore framework by DevExpress. In the first part of this show, Ken and Gary discuss various industry new...
CodeCast Episode 80: VS 2010 and Office 2010 Development with Beth Massi
May 13, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 80: VS 2010 and Office 2010 Development with Beth Massi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft. On the BizApps team in the Visual Studio group, Beth is a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. Beth discusses building business productivity applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010. The Visual Studio and Office teams have made significant investments in improving the deve...
CodeCast Episode 79: VS 2010 Shell Products with Nathan Halstead
May 01, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 79: VS 2010 Shell Products with Nathan Halstead In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Nathan Halstead of Microsoft, program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team responsible for the Visual Studio Shell (Isolated and Integrated) Shell products, as well as the Visual Studio SDK. Discussed in-depth is an overview of the isolated and integrated shells for both VS 2008 and the new VS 2010, scenarios for using one or both shell products, Microsoft partners and oth...
CodeCast Episode 78: iPad for Developers, iPhone OS 4, SDK section 3.3.2
April 29, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 78: iPad for Developers, iPhone OS 4, SDK section 3.3.2 In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the new Apple iPad and how it can be used as a useful to for developers, as in a complimentary device for software developers in general. Also discussed is what’s new in upcoming iPhone/iPad OS 4, and then a vibrant conversation with facts and analysis around the controversial section 3.3.2 in the iPhone SDK 4 license agreement definin...
CodeCast Episode 77: State of .NET - Spring 2010
April 15, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 77: State of .NET - Spring 2010 In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss the State of .NET, Spring 2010 edition. Main topics include Visual Studio 2010, Expression Studio 4, Silverlight 4, Multi-Touch and NUI with Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Azure. Much of the details discussed are based on the popular event series State of .NET tour presented by Markus Egger of EPS/CODE in cooperation with Microsoft. Links · Markus Egger...
CodeCast Episode 76: PowerShell for Developers with Ed Wilson
April 07, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 76: PowerShell for Developers with Ed Wilson In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Ed Wilson (aka “The Scripting Guy” at Microsoft). Ed creates cool and useful scripts, cmdlets, and samples for PowerShell (now included in Windows). Ed is very active in the PowerShell community, and blogs participates in the Scripting Guys blog which posts daily 365 days a year. Ed discusses the power and useful scenarios of PowerShell for .NET developers, and how every Windows de...
CodeCast Episode 75: Visual Studio Tips with Zain Naboulsi
March 30, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 75: Visual Studio Tips with Zain Naboulsi CodeCast #75: Ken Levy interviews Zain Naboulsi, developer evangelist (DE) for Microsoft based in Houston. Zain discusses his background before joining Microsoft, his various responsibilities as a DE for his part of Texas and Louisiana, and his various online activities including taking over Sara Ford’s VS Tip of the Day blog posting. Also discussed is the exciting news of Zain and Sara Ford collaborating on an upcoming new sequel t...
CodeCast Episode 74: MIX10 News on WinPhone7, Silverlight 4, and IE 9
March 20, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 74: MIX10 News on WinPhone7, Silverlight 4, and IE 9 In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the three primary news and announcement details from MIX10 – Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, Silverlight 4, and Internet Explorer 9 (HTML5 and CSS3). Links · MIX10 session videos · IE 9 test drive · Windows Phone 7 developer center · Windows Phone 7 development blog · Silverlight 4 tools · ...
CodeCast Episode 73: F# with Michael Hale
March 17, 2010 04:00CodeCast Episode 73: F# with Michael Hale In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Michael Hale, a program manager on the F# team at Microsoft. Michael discusses what’s new in F# for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010, various scenarios for functional programming with F#, integration of F# with C# and VB, F# with Silverlight, and the benefits for .NET developers of adding F# to their skill set. Links · F# Developer Center – http://fsharp.net Length: 38:22 Pos...
CodeCast Episode 72: VS 2010 Start Page Customization with Adrian Collier
March 13, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 72: VS 2010 Start Page Customization with Adrian Collier In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy chats with Adrian Collier, a program manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio platform team. Adrian discusses the powerful new WPF based customizable start page in Visual Studio 2010. The conversation includes an overview of the new start page architecture, a new template for creating customized start pages, and scenarios of how customized start pages will enhance Visual Studio. ...
CodeCast Episode 71: Microsoft MVP Summit and Windows Phone 7 Series
February 27, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 71: Microsoft MVP Summit and Windows Phone 7 Series In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the non-NDA details of the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, WA, along with a discussion on how MVPs contribute to the community and how MVPs and the MVP Summit helps developers and users who aren’t MVPs. Also discussed is the recent news around Windows Phone 7 Series including some details and expectations of the developer story for the new mobile...
CodeCast Episode 70: Code Camp with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher
February 23, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 70: Code Camp with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy discusses the topic of Code Camp events with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher. While the discussion is about organizing and attending Code Camp events in general, the upcoming Seattle Code Camp is discussed as an example event. Code Camp is a type of community event where developers talk with-and learn from-fellow developers, free, and anyone is welcome to attend and speak. An original C...
CodeCast Episode 69: Virtual Brown Bag Meetings with Claudio Lassala
February 18, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 69: Virtual Brown Bag Meetings with Claudio Lassala In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, lead developer at EPS Software, and primary host of the free weekly Virtual Brown Bag meetings online via Live Meeting. The idea of a brown bag meeting is simple: once a week, people bring their “brown bag lunch” to the conference room, and we share tips and tricks. In order to cater for that online, we’re starting a “virtual” brown bag meeting. The meetings...
CodeCast Episode 68: Convention over Configuration, AOP with JB
February 17, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 68: Convention over Configuration, AOP with JB In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger are joined by JB who is a software developer at EPS Software. JB talks about Convention over Configuration as a general theme, about creating applications so you only have to write the code that matters rather than a bunch of code to wire things up. Technology wise, its AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) with PostSharp, Prism, StructureMap, etc., but the idea that b...
CodeCast Episode 67: VS 2010 IDE Shell with Weston Hutchins
February 12, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 67: VS 2010 IDE Shell with Weston Hutchins In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Weston Hutchins, program manager on the Visual Studio Shell team (team responsible for the core IDE services and extensibility architecture as well as the overall look and feel of Visual Studio). Weston has worked extensively with the Ecosystem team during the Visual Studio 2010 product cycle to design the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager. In this episode, Weston gives a ...
CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala
February 09, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short interview Claudio Lassala, a C# MVP, INETA Speaker, MCSD.NET, and Software Developer at EPS Software. Claudio gives an overview and discusses in depth the principles, practices, and benefits of using SOLID for .NET development. Guest · Claudio Lassala - Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala, Band: http://DescentIntoMadness....
CodeCast Episode 65: iPad, Tablet/Slate/Netbook PCs, Kindle, EPUB
January 29, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 65: iPad, Tablet/Slate/Netbook PCs, Kindle, EPUB In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss in depth the new Apple iPad for both consumers/users and developers/businesses. This special show includes a detailed conversation of all the key details (hardware and software) of the newly announced iPad, with discussions on how it relates to PC based tablets, slates, and netbooks. The chat also includes how iPad and relative PC based devices can be use...
CodeCast Episode 64: MSBuild with Chuck England
January 16, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 64: MSBuild with Chuck England In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chuck England who is a program manager on the Visual Studio platform team at Microsoft responsible for MSBuild. This in-depth technical and scenario discussion includes detailed information on how and why to use MSBuild, either with Visual Studio 2008 or with new added features in Visual Studio 2010. New MSBuild features in VS 2010 include: New object model, new scheduler, Visual C++ now support...
CodeCast Episode 63: 2009 Year in Review
January 09, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 63: 2009 Year in Review In this special episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short summarize news, technologies, and products from 2009, then discuss predictions and new year resolutions for 2010. Overall 2009 in review (Intro) Windows 7 (14:10) Expression and Visual Studio 2010 (22:10) Tech industry news, Oracle buying Sun (24:57) NUI (Natural User Interface) (28:56) Digital content and readers (37:14) Design UI, web, and client apps (41:39) ASP....