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