Episode 7 - Rob Farley on SQL 2008 R2 and more

This week Rob Farley chats with Richard about SQL 2008 R2, getting a small consulting firm up and running and generally has a good laugh. Rob Farley is a SQL MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, runs the Adelaide SQL Users Group and has his own SQL consulting firm - LobsterPot Solutions.

Links:
Rob Farley @rob_farley - blog
LobsterPot Solutions
SQL Server 2008 R2


Duration 30:35 mins | download mp3 (28Mb)

Episode 6 - XNA with Luke Drumm

This week Richard talks with Luke Drumm (@lzcd), an XNA MVP, about what XNA is, why we should care and how gaming concepts can be applied to boring ol' line of business apps to help turn drudgery into something somewhat less drudge-like or, if done well, maybe even something fun!

Links:
Luke Drumm (@lzcd)
XNA Creators - get Game Studio here
XNA Team Blog on MSDN
Lostgarden
Ribbon Hero
Git-Achievements and a sample list of achievements


Duration 32:54 mins | download mp3 (30Mb)

Episode 5 - Magellan and more with Paul Stovell

This week Richard talks with Paul Stovell (@paulstovell), a WPF MVP, about the WPF learning curve, his Magellan project, writing your own blog engine, ASPNET MVC, JQueryPad, BindableLinq and much more.

We cover a lot of ground in this episode so there should be something in there for everyone.  Enjoy!

Links:
Paul Stovell (on twitter)
Magellan
Micro Models
Obtics
Snoop
OzWPF Mailing List Announcement
Markdown


Duration 32:54 mins | download mp3 (30Mb)

Talking Shop Down Under Podcast Episode 4

In this episode Richard Banks talks with Paul Batum about his involvement in the Fluent NHibernate project, the use of Git and Github in open source development and his reasons for contributing to open source in the first place.  Enjoy!

By the way, in this episode I changed microphones.  Let me know if you think the sound quality has improved!
 
Links:
Paul Batum (@paulbatum)
Fluent NHibnerate
Official Repository on GitHub
msysgit
Fluent NHibernate Conrtibuting Guide
 


Duration 30:12 mins | download mp3 (28Mb)

Episode 3 - Joe Albahari on LinqPad, Writing Books and more

In this episode Richard Banks talks with Joe Albahari about authoring books, the new dynamic keyword in C# 4.0, how LinqPad evolved, marketing your own product and finding and getting in touch with your customers.

Joe Albahari is a C# MVP, the author of a number of books including the newly released C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and the creator of LinqPad.

Links:
Joseph Albahari
LinqPad
C# 4.0 in a Nutshell on Amazon


Duration 31:41 mins | download mp3 (29Mb)