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Carl and Richard talk to Kate Gregory about the history of C, culminating in the latest version, C++0x (aka C++ 11). Kate points out that C++ is more popular than ever, no matter what the managed memory folks are saying. The conversation works through the various flavors of C, how the language has continued to evolve, even to the point of doing memory management! Along the way Kate digs into the new features of C++0x, many of which (like lambdas) seem awfully familiar... the conversation ends on a great discussion on massive parallelism. Could C++ solve the parallel problem?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Kerry Hammil about .NET Gadgeteer. The .NET Gadgeteer project comes out of Microsoft Research and is advancing the .NET Micro Framework with new hardware that does not require experienced electronics people to be successful with. Everything is plug-and-play! The conversation moves on to what would happen when everything in your house has an IP address and further on into the Internet of Things. Another good geekout show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza, the CEO and CTO (respectively) of Xamarin. Xamarin is the company that Nat and Miguel set up to house the Mono Project and the rest of the Mono related products including MonoTouch and Mono for Android after Attachmate acquired Novell. The conversation starts out on mobile development and moves to tablets. Click the link below for a 20% discount on Xamarin tools!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Emily Lewis about HTML5, CSS3, Microformats, and general web development topics. Emily calls herself a 'standardista' and demonstrates that in the conversation, talking about the advantage of using schemas to identify different types of data in your web pages. Could this be the return of XML schemas in a way that makes sense?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Loren Goodman from InRule Technologies about rule engines. Loren talks about how rule engines help applications organize rules so that non-developers can modify them. The goal is to reduce maintenance costs for software. The conversation moves over to concepts of complex event processing and how it applies to developing new rules dynamically.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to JD Meier from Microsoft about leading an agile life. JD talks about how he learned to be effective as a product manager at Microsoft, and how that lead to developing the Agile Life book. It may have a developer undertone, but the Agile Life is aimed at everyone.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker about DotNetNuke. Shaun talks about the release of DotNetNuke 6, offering some substantial changes to DNN, including migrating to C# (from VB.NET). The conversation also digs into the lifestyle of having a dominant community (read: free) edition of your product vs. the commercial edition. Shaun also talks about how web development has evolved since the early days of ASP.NET. And it runs in Windows Azure!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

You asked for it - Carl and Richard geek out about space. With the space shuttle retiring, the boys debate the relative merits of the shuttle program and where space should go next. Carl loves Virgin Galactic and Richard loves SpaceX. But what about Armadillo Aerospace and Bigelow Space? Join the boys for a good old fashioned geek out.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Tatham Oddie about building web applications using HTML 5 *and* Silverlight. Tatham talks about the idea that the two technologies are not mutually exclusive - that you can take advantage of the mix of browsers and plugins to build the best experience possible for users. The conversation also moves into data and connectivity in general, ending up on cloud platforms. Tatham talks about how Azure can't scale down far enough, that technologies like AppHarbor are filling in the bottom end of the cloud story.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Cristian Libardo about N2 CMS. N2 CMS is an open source CMS system designed to be very light weight and allow developers to work with editors to build great web sites. Cristian talks about how N2 CMS focuses on strongly typed code to define structure to the web site and only content in databases.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Julie Lerman about Entity Framework. Julie talks about her Entity Framework books - one for EF1, the other for EF4. The conversation digs into Entity Framework 4.1 and the key features added, as well as the June CTP which added even more. Julie talks about enum support in the CTP, which was the most demanded feature, but then goes onto the other cool areas of the CTP, including new model support, spatial, table-value functions and support for stored procedures that return multiple record sets. Julie gets us up to date on Entity Framework!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Pete Brown from Microsoft about the cool things he's working on, including building a Commodore 64 emulator in Silverlight! Pete also touches on the fact that Silverlight is not dying at all - there's lots of good things going on! The conversation digs into Pete's favorite new features of Silverlight 5. Pete is the author of Silverlight 5 in Action, you can get a discount by using code s5ia38 at the Manning web site. Ultimately the conversation ends up on the .NET Micro Framework and MIDI - music and geekery collide!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about Simple.Data. As Mark describes it, Simple.Data is not an ORM because there's no objects and no relational mapping. Simple.Data is a dynamic data utility to make your data persistence layer as light weight as possible. Mark also talks about Nancy, a light-weight web development framework. The conversation also moves to OWIN, the Open Web Server Interface. The show wraps up with Mark's insights on simpler, more open software.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams late of Microsoft, now at Google. Recently moved to Palo Alto, Brad talks about Google+, Google's social networking application for sharing thoughts, pictures and video. Brad has just joined the team to start developing API for developers to work with Google+. The conversation moves onto Google's Web Toolkit and App Engine, products Brad spent his first year at Google on. Brad digs into his thinking around building platforms, what it really means to compile, and his experiences in different company cultures.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Rey Bango from Microsoft about his web development career. Rey has deep ties into the Javascript community and talks about how Javascript development process has evolved. Today Rey takes care of the Script Junkies web site at Microsoft with some awesome cross browser content and code. The conversation also digs into the state of HTML 5 and it's potential in mobile development. Rey also walks through his tool kit of Javascript libraries. The show closes with a discussion about jsMentors, a site focused on helping Javascript developers improve.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta and OpenWrap. OpenRasta is a framework for simplifying building resource-oriented web-based applications. OpenRasta can work with ASP.NET or directly with HTTP.SYS. OpenRasta will work side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC, Webforms and more. Sebastien also talks about OpenWrap, a package manager for .NET that helps OpenRasta stay lean but extensible. Sebastien also speaks passionately about the role of Open Source in the Microsoft community.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen about S#arp architecture. S#arp architecture provides guidance on how to build ASP.NET MVC applications with nHibernate. It follows Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design principles very closely. The conversation also jumped over to StyleCop, the CodePlex project for standardizing code standards and Templify, an open source tool for building T4 templates.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

One more show from NDC - a silly one. Late in the conference, Carl and Richard talked to Uncle Bob Martin about professionalism, clean code and the Clojure language. Lots of jokes and giggling in this one - we were all getting a little punchy!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

What, another mobile panel? Yes - a totally different one. This mobile panel discussion was recorded at the Norwegian Developer Conference. Lots of strong debate about HTML 5 vs. native applications, the power and problems of PhoneGap and how app stores are breaking down. Not to be missed!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Fresh off his keynote at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Scott Guthrie dropped into the fishbowl to talk to Carl and Richard about his new role with the Azure team. Scott digs into how Azure has evolved and his focus on improving the developer experience. The conversation wraps up with a chat about the upcoming Build conference.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard talk to Ingo Rammer about building 'native' HTML 5 apps. Ingo talks about PhoneGap, a wrapper over HTML for building applications that run on all mobile platforms. But then he goes further, talking about other variations on the idea of using HTML 5 as the presentation markup while still being able to connect to the native resources of the platform. Could this be the programming platform of the future?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Dominick Baier to talk about claims-based security. Dominick walks through the entire claims-based security process, separating identity claims from resource claims, how to actually work with active directory in a sensible way and how the whole thing comes together in your code in a way that won't make you cry every time you need to make a change. The time for claims-based security is now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at the Norwegian Developer Conference, Carl and Richard collected a couple of stories from the speakers at the event. First up is Magnus Mårtensson and Björn Ekengren talking about Java on Azure. No really! Next, Gill Cleeran and Kevin Dockx talk about where Silverlight is going... to version five and beyond!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference, Carl and Richard moderated a panel discussion on Aspect Oriented Programming. The discussion ranges over a diverse number of scenarios that aspects make sense for, how you can get in trouble with aspects, and the various aspect toolsets that exist. The audience jumps in with lots of questions for panelists.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Paul Bone about the Mercury Project. Mercury is a logic programming language designed to natually execute in parallel without requiring the programmer to understand much about parallelism. Get ready for some brain-twisting - this sort of programming is quite different from what you're use to!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at DevTeach in Montreal, Carl and Richard sat down with a panel of mobile development experts to talk about where mobile development is at. The development process for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 was explored. The conversation also dug into the potential of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, alternative ways of building applications for iPhone and Android respectively. Finally, the debate dug into HTML 5 and the dream of building an application once that runs on all platforms.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to David Neilsen about doing cloud development. David digs into the various flavors of cloud, defining the differences between Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service. David is one of the original organizers of CloudCamp, free one day events to help people get started with the cloud. The conversation then digs into the challenge of migrating existing .NET applications to Azure. David finishes by defining the core criteria of cloud computing: On-Demand, Self-Service, Scalable, Measurable. The acronym is OSSM, pronounced 'awesome.'Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at Tech Ed US in Atlanta, Carl and Richard talked to a variety of folks about the work they're doing in .NET. First up was Geert van de Horrik, talking about the Catel MVVM framework. Then Miguel Castro talked about MVVM. We also caught up with Stephen Rose who discussed Windows InTune. And finally, Tod Anglin from Telerik talked a bit about HTML 5. These are the stories from Tech Ed!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about identity. Michele starts the conversation with the state of the union on identity. She walks through the evolution of identity concepts and how the various peices are being implemented. Michele also talks about the rise of REST-based identity (as opposed to SOAP-based) and the efforts to simplify identity. She also talks about Access Control Services (ACS), which is part of Azure AppFabric. oAuth, OpenID, Claims-Based Identity... this show has it all!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ignoring the unusual show number, Steve Smith talks to Carl and Richard about his experiences tuning ASP.NET for better performance. Steve tells three different stories from different eras of web development, also digging into situations where he's made mistakes, where he's found mistakes, and when he wished he'd called Microsoft tech support sooner. Don't let the number scare you, this is a great show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Arteaga about his experiences building Windows Phone 7 applications. The conversation starts with a run down of what's coming in the upcoming Mango release. Mark then digs into the challenges of small teams building games for the phone, and what enterprise developers are going to need to be successful with the phone.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to professors Andreas Wicenec and Kevin Vinsen of the ICRAR and SKA project. SKA is the Square Kilometer Array for radio astronomy. The concept is to build a really huge array of radio telescopes that work together to provide far deeper resolution into space. SKA plans on a first phase of 1,000 12 meter radio telescopes. Andreas and Kevin work in the Data Intensive Research Group at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia and specialise in the research require to handle the massive amounts of data that will be generated SKA.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Brian Lagunas about the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit goes beyond Microsoft's WPF Toolkit to add even more controls for WPF. Since September 2010, Brian has been adding controls to the library, as of April 2011 he's up to 21 controls!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Koen Zwikstra. Koen is the author of Silverlight Spy, a tool for inspecting the run time of a Silverlight application in browser, out-of-browser and even in Windows Phone 7. Think of it as Reflector or View Source for Silverlight!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard caught up with Glenn Block at Mix 2011 to find out what he's been working on since the MEF days. After a quick tour down memory lane about MEF and Brad Abrams, Glenn discusses WCF Web APIs. The Web APIs focus WCF onto pure HTTP, making it easier to build RESTful applications while not requiring your applications to use REST. WCF Web APIs are all about creating HTTP clients and servers that do not have to be browsers and web servers, opening HTTP to a whole new world of devices and simplifying testing of your HTTP applications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While Richard is climbing a mountain in Nepal, Carl talks to the US regional winners of Imagine Cup 2011.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at Mix 2011, Richard talked to Billy Hollis about XAML development. Billy talks about the balance between WPF and Silverlight work, how he chooses which approach to use. The conversation also digs into steering clear of the 'One Right Way' mindset, and how right now is a great time to be ready to experiment with new technologies - XAML, touch and even gesture.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

After getting an email from Shaun van Halewyn in Christchurch, New Zealand, Carl and Richard talk to Pat Hynds about disaster recovery for developers. This show is less about technology and more about planning - if you're responsible for your company's systems, have a listen.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Remi Caron about his project utilizing Enterprise Service Bus architecture to connect a huge number of applications together. Remi talks about using Microsoft Biztalk with the Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit to create a consistent mechanism for having different applications 'report-up' to a common infrastructure.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl interviews Richard about Tech Ed US in Atlanta. Richard does the Tech Ed 101 sessions at the conference, in the interview he shares his secrets for how to get the most from Tech Ed. Carl and Richard also talk about their own activities at Tech Ed US, including Speaker Idol and the 64 Bit Question game show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about Prism 4. Prism is a combination of guidance and tooling from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft to help build WPF and Silverlight based applications. Brian digs into why Prism exists and what has been added to the latest version of Prism to work with Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4. There's also a version for Windows Phone 7!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard talk to Dan Wahlin about the state of web client development. Dan talks about his experiences with Silverlight, HTML 5, MVC and jQuery.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Luca Passani about WURFL. WURFL stands for Wireless Universal Resource File. Originally, WURFL was an XML file containing the device capabilities of a huge variety of mobile devices. Today its available in a variety of database formats, including formats friendly to .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Recorded in front of the DevConnection audience in Orlando, Carl and Richard talk to Brian Randell about virtualization. Brian also digs into Virtual Lab Manager, the extensions to Visual Studio 2010 that help testers capture tests that fail and communicate them effectively to developers.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Cory Fowler about running PHP on Azure. Cory digs into the challenges of getting PHP up and running in Azure, especially the evil popup dialog box. Cory also points out the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Command Line edition that allows you to install anything from the WebPI onto Azure. The conversation also digs into the differences between Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft runs open source software well on Azure, check it out!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini, aka Ayende Rahein, about RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL JSON document database. Oren explains how he came to the realization that he needed to build his own data store, and the advantages of document databases over relational databases. Is SQL dead? Not hardly, but RavenDB is an interesting addition to your data solution!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Recorded on PI day, Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Eric Lippert from the C# Compiler team. But we don't only talk about C#! The conversation wanders around all the languages, a little F#, a little IronPython, heck, even VB.NET! Eric talks about Project Roslyn, Microsoft's efforts to make the C# compiler available as a service. A little artificial intelligence, a little parallelism, and you've got one brain twisting show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft. Jean Paoli was part of the team at the W3C that created the XML specification. Jean does a great job of helping us understand how huge the interoperability effort at Microsoft is. He also digs into the iterative (almost agile!) process of developing web specifications by building prototype code and taking that experience back to the working group.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Adam Driscoll of Quest Software. The conversation starts with a discussion around Adam's TFS plugin for Android. Then it moves into PowerGUI and the PowerGUI extensions for Visual Studio. PowerGUI is a UI for writing PowerShell scripts and PowerGUI VSX ties PowerGUI into Studio. Adam talks about applications can be built to be PowerShell driven with UI over top to generate the PowerShell commands.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Snook about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Jon is a designer and developer, which makes him a rare creature indeed. He talks about the history and role of CSS in web development and how CSS3 makes significant strides in equalizing design and layout between browsers.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations