.NET Rocks!
By Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell
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Podcast Description
.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for Microsoft .NET Developers.
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Carl and Richard are Back in Space! | Carl and Richard are back in space! With the SpaceX launch to the International Space Station, the boys decide they have to talk about space again. A big chunk of the conversation focuses on how a billionaire boys club has grown up around space - folks like Elon Musk who made their money in technology are now spending it to expand mankind's reach into space, and perhaps make a buck or two along the way. Beyond SpaceX there is Planetary Resources, a gathering of a bunch of internet billionaries to mine asteroids. Is this how mankind will expand into space? | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11 | Carl and Richard talk to Beth Massi about the latest incarnation of LightSwitch. In 2011 LightSwitch shipped as a separate install, but the upcoming version of LightSwitch is part of every SKU of Studio 11. Beth talks about how LightSwitch has evolved to be an awesome consumer and creator of data, making it simple to create oData interfaces over anything. The conversation also digs into the role of Silverlight, the evolution of the client and how LightSwitch makes apps in the cloud much simpler. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mister Franklin Goes to Washington | On Sunday, May 6th, Carl went to Washington, DC for a Fly-In at the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) for the purpose of talking to Senators and Representatives about issues around technology. He also talked to many of the developers and IT people who were attending these meetings, some of whom are regulars on .NET Rocks! This is a very special .NET Rocks! We hope you enjoy it. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11 | Carl and Richard talk to Micheal Learned about the new ALM features coming in Visual Studio 11. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Conery Codes in CoffeeScript | Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Rob Conery about CoffeeScript. Why would you use a language to generate Javascript? Rob talks about how CoffeeScript is designed to be human readable while JavaScript is much more machine-readable. Indents matter! No curly braces! Dogs and cats living together! It's chaos! But it's a happy chaos. Check it out! | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Noyes Builds Single Page Applications | Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about the Single Page Application (SPA) feature coming in MVC 4. Brian talks about the similarities of the design patterns for SPA to the more classical Silverlight or WPF application with RIA or WCF services on the back end. While hardly new to the web space (SPAs can be traced back to Outlook Web Access circa 2002), SPAs are going to be part of Studio 11. Brian talks through the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catching Up with Ted Neward | Carl and Richard catch up with Ted Neward - it had been too long since he was on! The conversation starts off talking about the maturity of .NET and how unimpressed Ted is with Async and Await. Ted also talks about Javascript and Ruby and the evolution of languages as a whole. Finally, NoSQL makes an appearance with a discussion around the issues of ORM. Has Ted Neward become a grumpy old man? | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Glenn Block Does node.js on Azure | Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Block about node.js on Azure. Glenn digs into how node.js has grown in popularity, and points to the Cloud9 IDE as a development environment in the Cloud as an example of a node.js application - which happens to be able to build node.js applications. And Cloud 9 can deploy node.js to Azure. The conversation digs into the Azure stack and the diversity of technologies (including node.js) that run great in the cloud. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl and Richard Geek Out About Wind Power! | Carl and Richard continue the Geek Out series on alternative energy with wind power. The conversation starts with the admission that as much as has been done with wind power so far, it's just a tiny drop in the bucket of total power consumption - less than 1% of US power comes from wind. Then the boys dig into the different types of wind power generation, the challenges that the power grid has incorporating wind power into the grid, and the kinds of problems that home owners have with wind power also. Wind has potential, but also problems. But long term it's part of the solution. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeroen Hulscher Builds Accessible Web Applications | Carl and Richard talk to Jeroen Hulscher about web accessibility. Accessibility challenges come in lots of different forms, and the way we build web pages can make it impossible for some to use your site. Jeroen talks about the tools and techniques to help developers understand what you need to do to make your site easy to use no matter what challenges you might have. As Jeroen says, at some point all of us are going to have some accessibility issues - the web site you make accessible may one day help you! | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Memory Management with Ricky Leeks | Carl and Richard have a discussion with a vegetable. Yeah, that's right, we interviewed a leek named Ricky Leeks. Beyond all the endless puns, is a great conversation about memory management in .NET. Ricky also lets us know about a free e-book on .NET Memory Management you can download from the links in the show. Check it out! | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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RavenDB on MSNBC! | Carl and Richard talk to John Bennett and Colin Hicks from MSNBC along with Oren Eini about the role RavenDB has played in building applications. John talks about how MSNBC was using SQL Server essentially as a blob store, storing stories as XML documents inside of the database. The conversation digs into the challenges of running a web site with well over a billion page views a month, the impact of breaking news on traffic, and how RavenDB solves the document storage problem effectively for MSNBC. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State of the Cloud at DevConnections | Another panel discussion from DevConnections, this one focused on how cloud computing is impacting developers. No holds are barred as the panel digs into virtualization, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and more. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Web App Design Shootout at DevConnections | A panel discussion at DevConnections in Las Vegas digs into different styles of web application development in 2012 - comparing web forms to MVC to the up-and-coming Single-Page style of web app. Carl handles questions from the audience while Richard causes trouble on the panel. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bart de Smet has Reactive Extensions | Carl and Richard talk to Bart de Smet about the beta of Reactive Extensions (Rx) Version 2. Currently in beta when the show was recorded, Rx 2.0 works with .NET 4.5, both for desktop and metro, as well as Silverlight 5 and Windows Phone 7.1. Bart talks about how Rx lets you write LINQ expressions over top of events, completely changing the way you think about responding to events. If you're tired of cluttering up your UI code with event handlers or you've got a back end process that needs to deal with millions of incoming events, you owe it to yourself to look at Rx! | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Wilder Does Hadoop on Azure | Carl and Richard talk to Bill Wilder about Hadoop on Azure. Hadoop is a technology for analyzing massive (petabytes) amount of data efficiently. Originally developed by Yahoo, it was given to the Apache Foundation as an open source project. Google, Facebook and others have all contributed to the project. Microsoft has come late to the game, but with a very compelling offering - you can run Hadoop on Azure and use Visual Studio to work with it. There's lots to learn about Hadoop, this show is just the starting point! | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl and Richard Geek Out on Solar Power | The first of many alternative energy geek outs, Carl and Richard talk about solar power. The boys talk about using solar in the home in the form of thermal as well as photovoltaic, at utility scale with solar thermal, even space-based power. The conversation explores the huge diversity of photovoltaics, including concentrators and quantum dot technologies, the advantages and disadvantages involved. There's also a brief discussion on battery technologies, since solar power doesn't work all that well at night. In the end there aren't easy answers, but things are advancing forward - the amount of solar power being generated these days is increasing! | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves Program in Erlang | Carl and Richard talk to Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves about programming in Erlang. Erlang is a language built by the telecommunications industry for maximizing concurrency, distribution and reliability. If you're looking to develop applications that take advantage of parallelism, you owe it to yourself to look at Erlang! | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of the Web at Prairie DevCon | While at the Prairie DevCon in Calgary, Carl and Richard moderated a panel discussion on the future of the web with panelists James Kovacs, Andrew Nurse, Bil Simser and James Chambers. The conversation ranged over the quality of web content today and a general push to try and improve it, discussions around monetization, the fragmentation of HTML 5, the role of mobile and some of the cool new technologies coming down the pipe to make the web an even more amazing place to build applications for. | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Diehl Fixes Us Up with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 | Carl and Richard talk to Mike Diehl about Data Quality Services (DQS) in SQL Server 2012. DQS is a new tool for SQL Server, as Mike points out, Microsoft acquired it. It adds into the suite of tools in SQL Server including Integration Services (SSIS), and Master Data Services. Mike talks about how DQS improves the quality of data by cleansing and de-duplication. Not a typical developer tool, but something any developer working with data needs to know about! | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
The originals
I've been listening to .NET Rocks since before the word "podcast" even existed. It's what inspired me to get off my buttocks and go forth into the dev community. Eventually, I even got to co-host the show for about fifty episodes, although that got a bit tough once I started traveling regularly. Overall, this show is amazing. The production values, the content, and Carl's tenacity have pushed it forward, year after year, and it's only gotten better as time has gone on. The .NET Rocks of 2006 is a highly refined version of what the show used to be, and Richard Campbell makes for a great co-host. Even after having worked on the show, I'm still a fan. Good stuff.
.Net Rocks!
These guys have the best Technology oriented Podcast in the world. Both informative and entertaining. My time is too important to be listening to anything else.
It's going downhill
I listened to this podcast for the last two years and unfortunately Carl and Richard are running out of interesting topics. I am un-subscribing now and hope to find a podcast that covers Microsoft and .NET technlogy in more depth. The last episodes seemed like a complete waste of time.
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