The Thirsty Developer - Podcast

In this episode we sit down for a roundtable discussion with world renown speaker and author, David Chappell, and Paddy Srinivasan and Bharat Srinivasan of Cumulux to discuss their perspectives of the Windows Azure Platform and the shift to Cloud Computing. We have a *Bonus* in this episode. Sometimes the conversation continues after the mics turn off. Sometimes those conversations are more insightful then the interview itself. Luckily I was able to grab my MicroTrack II and hit the record button to capture the continuing discussion. Stick around in the end as we’ve tacked this great discussion to the end of the episode. Show Notes David Chappell's Blog Cumulux Windows Azure Platform Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD074.MP3

In this episode we sit down with Claudio Caldato from the Microsoft Interoperability team as we discuss some of their work including the recently released Toolkit for PHP and ADO.NET Data Services. This is a special episode as we have a guest host, Jeff Brand, from the Spaghetti Code podcast. You can check out the Spaghetti Code podcast at SlickThought.net or on the Zune Marketplace or iTunes. Show Notes Microsoft Interoperability Team blog ADO.NET Data Services (MSDN) Toolkit for PHP and ADO.NET DataServices (Codeplex) Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Codeplex) PHP Training Kit for Windows Consuming data over the web between PHP and .NET with REST and ADO.NET Data Services (Channel9) Interoperability @ Microsoft (Interoperability Bridges and Labs Center) Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD073.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a Twitter feed! Friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

In this episode, we bring everyone up to speed on the changes taking place in the Thirsty Developer offices. Also, Dave and Larry sit down to chat about…well… many things. When you get those two together you’re not quite sure where the conversation is going to go. If you were to boil it down, they talk about what’s coming ahead in the year to come in their jobs at Microsoft. Show Notes Project Euler Larry’s Blog – EraserAndCrowbar.com Netflix Developer Network Amazon Product Advertising API Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft.NET   Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD072.mp3   Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a Twitter feed! Friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Tim Heuer (@timheuer), who is a Program Manager for Microsoft Silverlight (which actually makes him part of ScottGu’s private ninja army). Show notes Tim helps maintain the http://silverlight.net community site.  Check out the new design at http://beta.silverlight.net/ snapflow is a cool Silverlight application Continental airlines case study: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000004918 Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD071.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Sergio Pereira, a Chicago area developer who has been talking a lot about the need to learn JavaScript as a language. Show notes Sergio’s blog Devilcious Blog Network Sergio’s book recommendation: Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software) jQuery JavaScript: The Good Parts ScriptSharp Video: JavaScript the Good Parts Chicago Alt.NET User Group Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD070.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Scott Seely (@sseely), who works as a developer / architect at Myspace.  We talk with Scott about some of the advanced features of WCF and where services are headed in the future. Show notes ”Blind search” comparison tool that Scott Mentioned Scott's recent Book: Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5 Internet Identity Workshop  Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD069.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Andy Theimer (@atheimer), who works for the startup company Lansare and on a side project called Recipe Bridge that aggregates content from across the internet. Show notes Milwaukee’s Technology Innovation Center Microsoft Bizspark for startups Sitemaps definition Bing Webmaster Tools RecipeBook XML Microformats hRecipe Definition Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD068.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Doc List.  We talk with Doc about Open Spaces and applying those principles to the corporate environment.  Show notes Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology: A User's Guide Larry’s blog post on applying Open Spaces at work Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD067.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Dan Nawara (@dnawara) a front end designer about the HAML and SASS technologies.  The first part of the interview was recorded at Bombacigno's J & C Inn in Chicago, IL; one of Dan’s favorite restaurants (until we got kicked out). Show notes Official HAML Site nHAML (.NET version of HAML) SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) Tenplate (Dan’s framework) source code on Github The HAML Wikipedia page has an HTML / HAML Example Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD066.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we are please to bring you an interview with Derik Whittaker.  Derik talks with us about the SOLID principles and other coding practices. Show notes Dimecasts – Derik (and his friends) series of screencasts Three of Derik’s favorite tools: Resharper, Reflector and SQL Prompt Scott Hanselman’s interview with Uncle Bob on SOLID Uncle Bob on Stackoverflow Podcast (including apology) Original Whitepaper on SOILD Ted Patison’s Programming Distributed Applications With Com & Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Microsoft Research Code Contracts IOC Containers: StructureMap, Ninject, Spring.NET and Unity Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD065.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd Note The show was updated after publishing due to a problem with the show notes.  Uncle’s Bob’s PDF of his original whitepaper was the original link (now a link to a blog article).  The PDF was incorrectly picked up instead of the audio file.  Sorry for any problems this caused.

This week we bring back Steve Murawski (@StevenMurawski) to continue our conversation on Powershell. Show notes We had a request to shorten our episode titles so they are better seen on devices.  Love it?  Hate it?  Let us know! Scripting Games brought to you by powershellcommunity.org and poshcode.org Powershell Templates for Visual Studio Script Center PowerShell SDK Documentation (The SDK is part of the Windows SDK) PowerShell Programmer's Guide (MSDN) PowerGUI PowerShell Plus Sapien's PrimalScript /n Software PowerShellToys Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD064.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we have an interview with Aaron Erickson (@AaronErickson), a C# MVP.  Aaron talks with us about F#. Show notes Aaron’s book “The Nomadic Developer” Monte Carlo Simulations ”Expert F#“ by Don Syme "Foundations of F#" by Robert Pickering ”F# for Scientist” by Jon Harrop Milwaukee area’s Geek Book Club Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD063.mp3 Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we have an interview with Mike Tai and Matt Stratton of apartments.com.  Mike and Matt share with us some of the things that make their website (which gets over 4 million unique visitors a month) scale. Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD062.mp3 New Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we have a special episode where Larry interviews Dave about his recent work on project MEBA.  They also talk about the availability of Windows7 RC and the upgrade process. Show Notes Chicago Code Camp Indy Code Camp Fox Valley Day of .NET Jim Holmes’ post on unit testing by MS Evangelists Jack Greenfield’s blog UMM Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD061.mp3 New Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd

This week we have an interview an interview with Chuck Heinzelman, a SQL Server MVP.  Chuck is a Database Administrator who has been working with some of the new development oriented features of SQL Server 2008.  Chuck blogs at: http://devplanet.com/blogs/memydatabaseandi/. Show Notes Books online sparse columns guidelines (% null): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280604.aspx Migrating to SQL Server 2008 (podcast): http://thirstydeveloper.com/2009/03/02/TheThirstyDeveloper53MigratingToSQLServer2008.aspx Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD060.mp3 New Twitter Feed Thirsty Developer has a twitter feed, friend us at http://twitter.com/thirstyd