.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Snook about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Jon is a designer and developer, which makes him a rare creature indeed. He talks about the history and role of CSS in web development and how CSS3 makes significant strides in equalizing design and layout between browsers. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Scott Millett about SpecFlow, a free tool to help you implement Behaviour Driven Design. SpecFlow lets you build plain text requirements that actually connect with code and tests to help reinforce acceptance testing. The conversation also wanders over design patterns in general and ASP.NET specifically. Scott also talks through the various free tools he uses together to bu...

Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad about the state of Javascript today. Kent admits that he has fallen in love with Javascript of late, that the newest browsers make Javascript incredibly fast and powerful. The conversation digs into how to keep Javascript fast, which is primarily focused on downloading the right bytes at the right time - when in doubt, delay! Kent is down in the nitty gritty of...

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller and Seth Juarez about their crazy experiments with Kinect. The boys discuss how they are building an interface with Kinect to do programming with Visual Studio 2010. A large part of this conversation ends up diving deep into the relative merits of machine learning in systems. Are we crossing the streams? You bet! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/...

Carl and Richard talk to Bruce Lawson and Remi Sharp about HTML 5. Bruce and Remy have been involved with HTML 5 from the early days, although more as activists than movers-and-shakers. They provide some great insight into how HTML 5 has come to be and how regular developers can get involved and affect the outcome of an important specification. Bruce and Remy have one of the very first books out o...

Carl and Richard talk to Giorgio Sardo about the IE9 Release Candidate. Giorgio talks about his experience with Imagine Cup a few years back before diving into what's new in IE9. These features include geolocation and Web Open Font Format. Giorgio also digs into the test strategies of IE9 as well as performance. When will IE9 be released? Giorgio won't say! Support this podcast at — https://redcir...

Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur about the state of PostSharp and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Gael talks about the advantage of AOP, modifying applications without changing source code by using post-compilation techniques. He digs into different examples of using AOP to add features without burying business code in the plumbing. Finally Gael talks about the evolution of PostSharp into...

Carl and Richard talk to Udi Dahan about Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). CQRS is an enterprise application pattern derived from the DDD movement, where responsibility for data integrity and consistency lies soley in the application itself. The conversation digs deeply into using caching intelligently - not just create and expire, but actual maintenance of caching with a publicatio...

Carl and Richard talk to Rob Eisenberg about Caliburn. Micro, a MVVM framework available on Codeplex. Caliburn. Micro takes Convention-over-Configuration further, utilizing naming conventions to handle a large number of data binding, validation and other action-based characteristics in your app. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Josh Holmes about Microsoft's Web Matrix! Josh keynoted the launch of WebMatrix at CodeMash in January 2011. Web Matrix brings together great installer technologies with some of the latest Microsoft web application technologies to make it dirt simple to deploy and maintain web sites. The tool is free and the projects you make can be maintained with Studio Express or full b...

Carl and Richard talk to Joe O'Brien about efforts to bring Ruby on Rails to the Windows platform. The conversation digs into current community efforts to get Ruby on Rails working on Windows, the state of IronRuby and the role that Visual Studio could bring to Ruby. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Russell about converting applications from XNA to Silverlight, iPhone and even Android. Andrew is working on a project called ExEn to make migration between these platforms easier. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in programming. The conversation spans over use of computers in schools, teaching fundamental uses of computers, actual programming, and looking beyond. Andrew gets into Imagine Cup, a world-wide competition of students building software to change the world. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com...

Carl and Richard talk to Grant Skinner about Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML 5 game. The game runs on all of the HTML 5 browsers including IE 9 Beta. The conversation also digs into Easel JS, an open-source library that Grant helped create to make Pirates, simplifying the animation process on HTML 5 canvas. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Michael Doc Norton about how developers can grow their career. The conversation dives deep into techniques and approaches to practice in development, comparing it to music and katas. The reference sharpen the saw comes from Stephen Covey, and focuses on the idea of practice independent of work. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Toub from Microsoft about parallel development. Stephen digs into the Async-CTP, released in October 2010, to provide asynchronous keywords Async and Await. The conversation also digs into what's coming next in the parallel space from the team. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard participated in a panel discussion at Codemash 2011 on January 12, 2011 alongside the hosts of the popular Java Posse podcast. The discussion was moderated by Barry Hawkins. They talked about the differences and similarities between the Java and .NET ecosystems, the origins of their podcast (and ours), and more. Even if you're not a Java developer this is great stuff. Support this...

Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about the state of Team Foundation Server (TFS) today. Joel digs into how TFS has moved into the cloud and is reaching a larger span of developers. The conversation digs into how to split the work of development up between cloud and premise - source code on the cloud, builds locally, etc. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at CodeMash, Carl and Richard talk to Phil Japikse about Behaviour Driven Developement. Phil has been doing TDD and BDD for years and has an interesting take on how to be successful with the process - primarily getting over the 'blank slate syndrome.' Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Boris Scheiman about nKinect, a codeplex project to bring Kinect to .NET! Boris talks about what it takes to make nKinect work and the new features that are coming, while Carl and Richard geek out on the possibilities. Minority Report is here! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob Conery tells us why OpenID is a nightmare, and why he's stopped using it. Oh yeah, he's also given up Twitter. We also talked about the mind/body connection and the challenges of working at home. Also: whale watching, home brewing, music, barbeque, wine, and following your bliss. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Gus Issa from GHI Electronics, a company that makes small programmable boards, devices, controllers, and sensors that use the .NET Micro Framework to allow Visual Studio developers to program smart hardware devices. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl, Richard and Mark Miller chat about events that occurred in 2010 that affect the .NET world. From C# to F#, Studio to Lightswitch, Windows Phone 7 to Kinect. What a great year! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker, CTO of DotNetNuke Corp. Last time Shaun was on the show, the commercial version of DotNetNuke was just starting out. Shaun brings us up to date on the state of the business, the balance between community and commercial, and the evolution of the store front for the thousands of plug-in products for DotNetNuke. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ne...

Carl and Richard talk to Eric Falsken of db4o. db4o is an open source object database for Java and .NET. Object databases have been around since the 1980s, but recently have become part of the NoSQL movement. Eric discusses the NoSQL movement in general and how various products fit into the ecosystem, including db4o. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations