Episode 79 - Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar

Live from YOW! 2011 in Melbourne, Richard talks with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar about getting extreme performance from .NET code and some of the things to think about when you're trying to wring the very last drop of performance from your CPUs

Enjoy!

Links:
Patrick Cooney
Joel Pobar - @joelpob


Duration 35:27 mins | Download mp3

Episode 78 - Eric Evans on the Birth of DDD

Live from YOW! 2011 in Melbourne, Richard talks with Eric Evans about the birth of Domain Driven Design and his thoughts on the various modelling tools available for software developers.

Enjoy!

Links:
Domain Driven Design
Eric Evans - @ericevans0


Duration 36:37 mins | Download mp3

Episode 77 - Code Reviews FTW

Code Reviews, for the WIN!! Richard talks with Justin Taylor (aka JT) and Mark Derricutt about code reviews, how to make them work, what to look for and why we need them.

Enjoy!

Links:
Justin Taylor - @jtango18
Mark Derricutt - @talios
Git
Git-Flow
Gerrit Code Review
Illegal Argument podcast


Duration 28:57 mins | Download mp3

Episode 76 - John Bristowe and Kendo UI

John Bristowe, recently returned to Australia, talks with Richard about Telerik's Kendo UI

Enjoy!

Links:
John Bristowe - @johnbristowe
Kendo UI

Duration 34:06 mins | Download mp3

Episode 75 - Sailing With This Ship of Tools

Richard Banks talks with Aaron Powell, Damian Maclennan and Philip Laureano about the tools they have in their developers toolbox. There should be something useful in here for everyone.

Enjoy!

Links:
Aaron Powell - @slace
Damian Maclennan - @damianm
Philip Laureano - @philiplaureano
Ship of Fools
Image Resizer
JavaScript Editor Extensions for VS2010
Sublime Text
ViEmu for Visual Studio
Productivity Power Tools
CodeRush
ReSharper
Convert spaces to underscores in test names
#Region Extension for VS2010
KnockoutJs (also available on NuGet)
Chandler Project
NCrunch
ContinuousTests (aka Mighty Moose)
Giles Continuous Testing
Nemerle
Twitter Bootstrap
HTML5 Boiler Plate
normalize.css
Less CSS
CoffeeScript CSS
CoffeeKup
Jade


Duration 39:30 mins | Download mp3

Episode 74 - Mahesh Krishnan on Azure

Mahesh Krishnan sits down and chats with Richard about Azure live at TechEd Australia

Enjoy!

Links:
Mahesh Krishnan - @maheshkrishnan


Duration 33:53 mins | Download mp3

Episode 73 - Andrew Coates Lights it up

Richard talks with Andrew Coates about Visual Studio LightSwitch, what it means for proper developers and importantly, why they should care.

Enjoy!

Links:
Andrew Coates - @coatsy
Visual Studio LightSwitch


Duration 32:01 mins | Download mp3

Episode 72 - CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap

Richard Talks with Ben Gracewood and Ian Randall about the upcoming CodeMania conference in New Zealand and also their thoughts on Build and Windows 8 development

Enjoy!

Links:
Ben Gracewood - @nzben
Ian Randall - @kiwipom
CodeMania Conference
Australian Alt.Net OpenSpaces


Duration 32:05 mins | Download mp3

Episode 71 - Jake Ginnivan on the Intricacies of COM Interop and VSTO

Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Jake Ginnivan talks with Richard Banks about some of the intracacies of COM interop and VSTO, as then moves on to talking about an MVC framework for Windows Phone 7.

Enjoy!

Links:
Jake Ginnivan - @JakeGinnivan
VSTO Contrib
COM Interop and VSTO explained




Duration 34:15 mins | Download mp3

Episode 70 - Jeff Wilcox and Window Phone 7 Performance Considerations

Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Jeff Wilcox talks with Chris Walshie and Richard Banks about Windows Phone 7 performance considerations, submitting apps to the marketplace, the silverlight toolkit and more. And yes, this is the episode where Richard forgets to press record the first time around. Doh!

Enjoy!

Links:
Jeff Wilcox - @JeffWilcox
Silverlight Toolkit
AgFx Data Caching Framework
4th and Mayor Foursquare WP7 app




Duration 30:24 mins | Download mp3

Episode 69 - Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more

Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Richard Banks talks with Mitch Denny about BDD, Team Explorer Everywhere and moving your infrastructure to the cloud.

Enjoy!

Links:
Mitch Denny - @MitchDenny

Duration 30:39 mins | Download mp3

Episode 68 - Thomas Lewis on CSS3, Web Fonts and IE10

Live from TechEd Australia 2011, Richard Banks talks with Thomas Lewis about Web Fonts, CSS3 layouts and media queries and also IE10.

Enjoy!

Links:
Thomas Lewis - @tommylee

Duration 34:53 mins | Download mp3

Episode 67 - Sam Saffron and Performance Optimisation at StackOverflow

Sam Saffron talks to Richard Banks about the performance optimisation work he has done at Stack Overflow and the tools that have come out of that. Namely Dapper, a lightweight data access framework, and the MVC Mini Profiler.

Sam also talks about the upcoming Stack Overflow DevDays in Sydney and some of the people coming to talk.

As a note - there's a discount code for DevDays. Just enter "Saffron2011" to get a $100 discount. Thanks Sam!

Enjoy!

Links:
Sam Saffron - @samsaffron
Dapper Dot Net
MVC Mini Profiler
StackOverflow DevDays in Sydney, 2011

Duration 34:23 mins | Download mp3

Episode 66 - A Chat About ALM

Alex Mackey contacted Richard for a chat about ALM and TFS and they decided to turn it into an episode instead. This is the result.

Enjoy!

Links:
Alex Mackey - @alexjmackey

Duration 33:23 mins | Download mp3

Episode 65 - Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus

NServiceBus gets a lot of press for being a great message bus solution for application development, but it's also easy to get it wrong. Jim Pelletier talks with Richard Banks about the mistakes he's made implementing systems with it and also the lessons learned.

Apologies for the quality of Richard's audio - there were some micropohone problems at his end during recording.

Enjoy!

Links:
Jim Pelletier - @pjimmy
NServiceBus
Oz Alt.Net

Duration 41:09 mins | Download mp3

Episode 64 - Stewart Tansley and the Kinect SDK

Stewart Tansley talks with Richard about the Kinect SDK, some of it's features and some of the cool things people have been building with it. If you've got a Kinect then have a listen and see if you can't get some inspiraiton and build something for your most unique gadget.

Update: Apologies for the editing fail. The audio files have been refreshed.

Enjoy!

Links:
Stewart Tansley - @dswtan
Kinect SDK

Duration 37:11 mins | Download mp3

Episode 63 - Lachlan Heasman on Project Management and Developers

Courtesy of a listener request, Lachlan Heasman talks about project managers, developers and how they need to work with each other.

Enjoy!

Duration 34:41 mins | Download mp3

Episode 62 - Craig Sharkie on JavaScript and IPTV Live From DDD Sydney 2011

Recorded Live at DDD Sydney 2011, Richard Banks talks with Craig Sharkie about all things JavaScript, a little IPTV, the SydJS user group and more.

Enjoy!

Craig Sharkie - @twalve
SydJS
Backbone.JS
Node.JS
Telstra on IPTV

Duration 29:41 mins | Download mp3

Episode 61 - Malcolm Sheridan on Web Deploy Live From DDD Sydney 2011

Recorded Live at DDD Sydney, Malcolm Sheridan chats with Richard Banks about Microsoft's Web Deploy toolkit and also a little Fortran.

Enjoy!

Malcolm Sheridan - @malcolmsheridan
Microsoft Web Deploy
Web Platform Installer

Duration 35:33 mins | Download mp3

Episode 60 - Continuous Delivery with Stephen Godbold

Stephen Godbold is leaving our fair shores and heading to the US, so what better way to remember him by than via this episode on Continuous Delivery!

Enjoy!

Stephen Godbold - @stevegodbold
Continuous Delivery web site

Duration 34:46 mins | Download mp3

Episode 59 - Moving to .NET

That's right, an episode about people moving onto the .NET platform. Richard Banks talks to Henry Sun and Brett Hirst, a couple of Progress developers who have recently made the move onto C#, about some of the issues and challenges they face(d) during the transition.

Please note that the episode was recorded in a fairly noisy environment, so please forgive the background noise you'll no doubt hear.

Enjoy!

Duration 30:00 mins | Download mp3

Episode 58 – Windows 8 Round Table

Windows 8 was announced just recently and this round table was recorded the day after with initial impressions and thoughts on the future for developers in a Windows 8 world.

Guests on this episode are Jeremiah Morrill, Den Delimarksy, Patrick Klug and Scott Barnes. Things get a little opinionated and passionate at so please forgive some of the language.

Enjoy!

Links:
Jeremiah Morrill - @jmorrill
Den Delimarsky - @DennisCode
Patrick Klug - @PatrickKlug
Scott Barnes - @mossyblog
First Windows 8 Video
Live blog of Steven Sinofsky at D9

Duration 35:34 mins | Download mp3

Episode 57 - Chris Walsh on Mango for WP7

Chris Walsh talks about the Mango update for Windows Phone 7 and also his phone unlocker utility and why it was pulled.

Enjoy!

Links:
Chris Walsh - @ChrisWalshie

Duration 30:55 mins | Download mp3

Episode 56 - Riak with OJ Reeves

This is part 2 of in interview with OJ Reeves. Part 1 covered Erlang and part 2 moves on to Riak, a database built on top of the Erlang language.

Enjoy!

Links:
OJ Reeves - @thecolonial
Erlang Programming Language
Riak
Learn you Some Erlang

Duration 26:42 mins | Download mp3

Episode 55 - Erlang with OJ Reeves

In an unintentional part 1 of a two part episode, OJ Reeves talks with Richard about Erlang and some of it's unique features.

Enjoy!

Links:
OJ Reeves - @thecolonial
Erlang Programming Language

Duration 23:18 mins | Download mp3

Episode 54 – BDDify and Mehdi Khalili

Yet another home grown project! This time Mehdi Khalili talks with Richard about BDDify, a BDD testing framework. Why he wrote it, why it’s a little different from the rest and why you should have a look at it.

Enjoy!

Links: 
Mehdi Khalili - @mehdikhalili
BDDify
BDDify on Twitter 

Duration 29:59 mins | Download mp3

Episode 53 - Jordan Knight on the Modern Web

Jordan Knight explains why modern web browsers with HTML5, Javascript, CSS3 and hardware acceleration are so enticing for application development.

Enjoy!

Links:
Jordan Knight - @jakkaj
XAMLing
JQuery Swipe Library
Knockout JS

Duration 31:28 mins | Download mp3

Episode 52 - Thomas Johansen gets SASSy with HTML5 and Rails

Richard Banks and David Tchepak talk to Thomas Johansen about SASS, HTML5, Coffee Script, Ruby on Rails and more in this episode about web front end development.

There's a lot in here so, as per usual, we hope you enjoy it!

Links:
Thomas Johansen - @thomasjo
Coffee Script
NDC 2011
SASS
Oz Alt.Net Mailing List
Thomas Johansen on GitHub

Duration 34:51 mins | Download mp3

Episode 51 - Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly

While Richard is away on holidays, an anonymous host breaks into the Talking Shop studio to interview Xerxes Battiwalla on his work as maintainer of the open-source Shouldly assertion library project, as well as his experiences tutoring computer science students on programming.

Enjoy!

Links:
Xerxes Battiwalla - @xerxesb
Shouldly
Paul Stovell's Tape project

Duration 34:28 mins | Download mp3

Episode 50 - David Tchepak and Richard Banks

The tables are turned! David Tchepak plays guest host and talks with Richard Banks about his background, agile development, the mvp summit and what developers should know about management.

Enjoy!

Links:
Richard Banks - @rbanks54
David Tchepak - @davetchepak
Readify Dev Days
Sydney Scrum Master Course

Duration 43:41 mins | Download mp3

Episode 49 - David Starr on BDD

David Starr (aka the Elegant Coder and host of the Pluralcast podcast) talks with Richard Banks about Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), the benefits of the technique, the tooling and some of the issues with the current offerings and then wrap up with some blue-sky thinking about how the tooling may evolve to help bring the concept of executable specifications to reality.

Enjoy!

Links:
David Starr - @elegantcoder
The Pluralcast

Duration 35:43 mins | Download mp3

Episode 48 - Tatham Oddie on What IE9 Means for Developers

Richard Banks and Tatham Oddie talk about IE9, the new features, some of the interesting bits and what developers should be looking at incorporating into their sites now that IE9 has hit the streets.

Enjoy!

Links:
Tatham Oddie - @tathamoddie
Internet Explorer

Duration 39:39 mins | Download mp3

Episode 47 - Task Army on Rails with Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Richard Banks and Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli take a break during their work day to sit down and chat about TaskArmy.com, the purpose of the site and most importantly how it was put together and how the different approach has affected normal .NET development work.

Enjoy!

Links:
Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli - @aymerig
Rails Casts
Task Army
Ruby Mine

Duration 31:31 mins | Download mp3

Episode 46 - Castle Windsor with Krzysztof Kozmic

Time to talk about Castle Windsor, and who better than the man himself - Krzysztof Kozmic. Krzysztof and Richard chat about Windsor 2.5, some of the newer features and also some of the lesser known but very useful one, plus a little of what's going to be happening with version 3.0 development. Enjoy!

Links:
Krzysztof Kozmic - @kkozmic
Castle Project
Windsor v3 Suggestions

Duration 31:38 mins | Download mp3

Episode 45 - Ryan Bigg talks Ruby on Rails 3

Ryan Bigg talks with Richard about his book on Ruby on Rails 3, the ruby community in general and some of the nice new features in Rails 3.

Links:
Ryan Bigg - @ryanbigg
Rails 3 In Action Discount code is rails350
Rails Camp

Duration 32:29 mins | Download mp3

Episode 44 - Web Sockets with Gareth Stokes

Web sockets are something new in the HTML spec and to find out more about them Richard Banks talks with Gareth Stokes to see just what they are and how they're being used in various projects.

Links:
Gareth Stokes - @garrydanger
Web sockets information
Web socket security problems
Node JS
Socket.io
Node JS knockout

Duration 30:58 mins | Download mp3

Episode 43 - Cows in the Dark, Functional Programming and MMO design

Richard Banks chats with Luke Drumm about functional programming, MMO design challenges and bizarre night time incidents.

Links:
Luke Drumm - @lzcd

Duration 29:05 mins | Download mp3

Episode 42 - Tarn Barford, the Polyglot Programmer

Richard Banks chats with Tarn Barford about "stuff". Well, programming related stuff, including different languages, Richard's "tyranny of or" blog post, why programmers should be aware of what goes on in other communities and in publishing this episode also gives Tarn a new nickname.

Links:
Tarn Barford - @tarnacious
The Tyranny of Or blog post

Duration 34:11 mins | Download mp3

Episode 41 - Glenn Block, WCF and HTTP

Glenn Block talks with Richard about his move to the WCF team, how the engagement model used when developing MEF has been taken forward to improve engagement with the community and some of the really interesting new features coming in WCF to make developing with HTTP in particular just that much easier and simpler.

Links:
Glenn Block - @gblock
WCF Codeplex Community site

Duration 42:46 mins | Download mp3