Monday, April 6, 2020
Episode 603
Brent Stineman on Remote Recording
Brent Stineman talks about an internal podcast he produces for Microsoft and the challenges of interviewing people hundreds or thousands of miles away from him.
Monday, March 16, 2020
Episode 602
Jaidev Kunjur on Azure Integration Tools
Jaidev Kunjur of Enkay Technology Solutions discusses some of the integration tools available in Microsoft Azure, such as Logic Apps, API Management, Azure Functions, and Event Grid.
He describes the capabilities of these tools and how his company is using them to solve integration problems for their customers.
https://enkaytech.com/
Monday, March 9, 2020
Episode 601
Don Ward on Flutter
Flutter is an open source framework from Google, designed to help you build cross-platform applications. Don Ward tells us what it does and how to use it.
Monday, March 2, 2020
Episode 600
A Celebration of Friends
A look back at the last 100 episodes of Technology and Friends!
Featuring:
Venkat Subramaniam
Jon Skeet
Laurent Bugnion
Jennifer Wadella
Douglas Crockford
Jeff Fritz
Raffaele Rialdi
Carolina Banales
Elton Stoneman
Brandon Satrom
Heather Wilde
Jennifer Marsman
Walt Ritscher
Jeremy Miller
Jayson Street
Angela Dugan
Heather Downing
Robert Green
Jon Galloway
Tibi Covaci
Lorena Mesa
Bill Wagner
Angie Byron
Hao Luo
J Tower
Dan Rey
Alex Mang
Eric Boyd
Tim Reilly
JD Marymee
Jim Wooley
Lwin Maung
Frank Gill
Jason Bock
Jean Lange
Isaac Bayoh
Ruth Yakubu
Kevin Gates
Jes Schultz
Bryan Glenn
Kate Gregory
John Azariah
Brady Gaster
Ondrej Balas
Raj Krishnan
Phil Japikse
Martin Kearn
Annie Bougie
Arthur Doler
Erwin Derksen
Rajasa Savant
Robert Greene
Jackie Becker
Kevin Griffin
Bret Stateham
Adam Hecktman
David Makogon
Tobiah Zarlez
Geisa Faustino
Brent Stineman
Melanie Adcock
Mike Benkovich
John Alexander
Jeremy Likness
Edward Thomson
Silviu Niculita
Cassandra Faris
Elizabeth Graham
Hattan Shobokshi
Whitney Griffith
Tobiasz Koprowski
Raymond Comvalius
Laurent Ellerbach
Hilary Weaver-Robb
Christian Geuer-Pollmann
Michael Eaton
Courtney Eaton
Gabrielle Sempf
Spencer Schneidenback
Rob Reynolds
Robert Martin
Jim Christopher
Kevin Leung
Guillermo Bellman
Fabian Fernandez
Nicolas Bello
Kevin Ashley
Christine Matheney
Atley Hunter
Zach Miller
Don Ward
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Monday, February 24, 2020
Episode 599
Bryan Glenn on the Right Mindset for Success
Bryan Glenn is a technology entrepreneur. His upcoming book "Life Adds Up" talks about thea characteristics necessary to acheive success. Bryan shares stories of successful people like Bill Gates and Albert Einstein, as well as lessons from his own life.
http://capitalglenn.com
Monday, February 17, 2020
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Monday, December 30, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Episode 590
J Tower on the .NET CLI
J Tower describes how to use the .NET Command Line Interface to automate tasks normally performed inside Visual Studio.
Monday, December 16, 2019
Episode 589
Tobiah Zarlez on Gender Identity
A few years ago, Software Engineer Tobiah Zarlez came out as non-binary gender. Tobiah talks about what this mean, how it affected them, and how the tech community responded.
Monday, December 9, 2019
Episode 588
Walt Ritscher on Try .NET
Walt Ritscher describes Try .NET and how to use it to enhance your programming demos.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Episode 587
Robert Green on Microsoft Graph
Robert Green describes how to use Microsoft Graph to query information from Microsoft directories and services.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Monday, November 18, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
Episode 584
Phil Japikse on .NET Core Support Cycle
Most people are unaware when support expires for each version of .NET Core. Phil Japikse explains the rules and how you can protect yourself.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Episode 583
Edward Thomson on GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a new feature at github.com allowing users to run custom code on GitHub. Edward Thomson describes this feature and how to use it.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Episode 582
Jeremy Likness on Blazor
Blazor is a framework for building full-stack web apps in the browser using C#. Jeremy Likness describes how it works and how to use it.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Episode 581
Laurent Bugnion on the Ignite Tour
The Microsoft Ignite conference takes place in November in Orlando, FL; but not everyone can attend.
So, Laurent Bugnion and his team are organizing the Ignite Tour, bringing much of the content to 30 cities around the world in the months following the conference.
Laurent discusses what people can expect at these events.
Ignite Tour Home
Monday, October 14, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019
Episode 576
Dan Rey on Microsoft Surface
Dan Rey describes the different versions of Microsoft Surface and how you can use them to be more productive.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
Episode 574
Mercedes Bernard on Dev Together
Mercedes Bernard started Dev Together to connect new software developers with mentors that would help them learn valuable skills. Over a year later, it is popular and spreading to other cities.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Episode 571
Jon Galloway on the .NET Foundation
The .NET Foundation recently expanded its board and its goals. Jon Galloway discusses what the Foundation does and what it strives to do.
Monday, July 1, 2019
Episode 570
Laurent Bugnion on Migrating Data to Azure
Laurent Bugnion describes how he migrated from on-premise MongoDB and SQL Server databases to CosmosDB and Azure SQL Database running in Microsoft Azure, using both native tools and the Database migration service.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Episode 569
John Alexander on ML.NET
John Alexander describes how .NET developers can use ML.NET to build and consume Machine Learning solutions.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Monday, June 10, 2019
Episode 567
Elton Stoneman on Docker
Elton Stoneman describes how to manage containers using Docker on a local machine and in the cloud.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Monday, May 27, 2019
Episode 564
Eric Boyd on Microservices
Eric Boyd describes the principles of Microservices and how he uses these principles to build better software.
Links:
Monday, May 20, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Episode 563
J Tower on .NET Standard
J Tower describes .NET Standard, .NET Core, and the .NET Framework and how developers can get different flavors of .NET to work together.
Monday, May 6, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Episode 561
Adam Hecktman on Civic Tech
Adam Hecktman describes Civic Tech and what Microsoft is doing to help the city and people of Chicago.
Monday, April 22, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019
Episode 554
Bret Stateham on IoT Edge
Bret Stateham describes how to effectively use IoT Edge to move some of your processing and logic closer to your IoT devices.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Episode 554
Kevin Griffin on Whats New in SignalR
Kevin Griffin returns to the subject of SignalR, describing the advances in this push technology since we last spoke of it years ago.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Episode 551
Jeremy Miller on Automated Testing in .NET Core
Jeremy Miller describes how testing ASP.NET applications is simpler with ASP.NET Core. He discusses the modularity of .NET, the lack of dependencies on IIS, and his open source testing project Alba.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Episode 548
Jennifer Wadella on Gatsby
Jennifer Wadella describes how to use the Gatsby tool to quickly create static web sites.
Links
https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
Monday, January 28, 2019
Episode 547
Jon Skeet on Versioning
Versioning is more complex than most people believe. Jon Skeet describes the issues and how we can deal with the complexities to keep software libraries from breaking client applications.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Episode 547
Geisa Faustino on Teaching
Geisa Faustino loves to teach. She developed this love in her previous career as a university professor and continues to teach as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She explains what she gains from teaching and how she helps others to learn.
Monday, January 14, 2019
Monday, January 7, 2019
Monday, December 31, 2018
Episode 544
Elizabeth Graham on Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft Global Black Belt Elizabeth Graham describes Azure Logic Apps and how to use them to solve integration and workflow projects.
Monday, December 24, 2018
Monday, December 17, 2018
Monday, December 10, 2018
Episode 541
JD Marymee on Blockchain
JD Marymee describes the fundamentals of Blockchain and gives examples of how his customers are using it.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Episode 540
Bill Wagner on Nullable Reference Types
C# 8 will have support for Nullable reference types, which will allow you to know better when you need to check for null in your variables. Bill explains the syntax and implication of this upcoming language feature.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Episode 539
Brady Gaster on Marketing Azure
Brady Gaster helps to build and coordinate many of the Azure demos you see on stage at large technical conferences. He talks about how his team tells a story with tools and code.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Monday, November 12, 2018
Episode 537
Robert Greene on DevOps
Robert Greene defines DevOps, discusses its advantages, and describes how to accomplish it with Microsoft tooling.
Monday, November 5, 2018
Episode 536
Hao Luo on Rust
Hao Luo talks about the Rust programming language, how it works, and how he is using it.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Monday, October 22, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Monday, October 1, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Monday, September 3, 2018
Monday, August 27, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
Monday, August 6, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
Monday, July 9, 2018
Monday, July 2, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Monday, May 28, 2018
Monday, May 21, 2018
Monday, May 14, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
Monday, December 18, 2017
Monday, December 11, 2017
Monday, December 4, 2017
Monday, November 27, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017
Monday, November 13, 2017
Monday, November 6, 2017
Monday, October 30, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
Monday, October 2, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Monday, August 28, 2017
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
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Monday, July 3, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Agolo is using Machine Learning to match employers with the right candidates for their open jobs. I spoke with CEO Sage Wohns when I was in New York City last week.
The interview is available on DevRadio at https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/DR1730.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Monday, May 22, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
Monday, May 8, 2017
Monday, May 1, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
I spoke recently with CVP Erich Andersen and Director of Marketing for Azure Tanuj Bansal about the Microsoft Azure IP Advantage program, that assists companies with patent issues.
Watch below or click here.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Last week, Ed Charbeneau interviewed me for his Eat Sleep Dev podcast. The topic was Cognitive Services – a technology I’m passionate about.
You can listen to that interview below.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Monday, February 20, 2017
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Thursday, July 30, 2015
A couple weeks ago, I was in Knoxville, TN talking with Microsoft Senior Program Manager Jeff Fritz. He agreed to record an interview with me about the awesome new features of this upcoming framework. My plan was to release it as an episode of Technology and Friends. Unfortunately, technical issues left me with excellent audio but no useable video.
Jeff did a great job and the topic is very interesting. So, given the release of Visual Studio 2015 last week and Windows 10 today, I decided to make the audio interview available here.
Enjoy: Jeff Fritz talks about ASP.NET 5
![IMG_2542-X2[1]](http://davidgiard.com/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/InterviewwithJeffFritzaboutASP.NET5_1146F/IMG_2542-X2%5B1%5D_thumb.jpg "IMG_2542-X2[1]")
Monday, August 2, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Episode 94
In this show, Joe Wirtley discusses how he addressed the challenges in building an e-commerce site.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Episode 93
In this interview, Dr David Truxall describes the features of Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Episode 92
At the 2010 ann arbor Day of .Net, I hosted a panel discussion in front of a live audience.
Michael Eaton, Jay Harris, Patrick Steele, Jim Holmes and Jason Follas described how they cope with the information overload of keeping up with technologies.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Episode 91
Matt Van Horn and I began by talking about Expression Blend and the conversation moved toward collaborations between developers and designers
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Episode 90
BizSpark and WebsiteSpark are low-cost software options that Microsoft offers to startup companies. In this interview, Microsoft Partner Evangelist John McClelland describes these programs.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Episode 89
In this interview, Dane Morgridege describes the Entity Framework - an object relational mapping tool from Microsoft.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Episode 88
In this interview, Microsoft Product Unit Manager Cameron Skinner describes the architecture tools that his team built into Visual Studio 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Episode 87
In this interview, Day of .Net organizers John Hopkins and Jason Follas describe what went into planning this event and what were the results.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Episode 86
In this episode, David Hoerster describes how he uses jQuery and WCF to create rich, interactive applications.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Episode 85
In this show, David Isbitski and Matt Van Horn describe Behaviors, a feature that allows you to easily enhance the user interface of your Silverlight applications.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Episode 84
In this interview, John Petersen describes how to use jQuery, JSON and Ajax to enhance an ASP.Net MVC application.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Episode 83
In this interview, Eric Greene describes the advantages of using a Content Management System to rapidly build a flexible web site
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Episode 81
In this interview, Jennifer Marsman describes some of the new features of Windows 7 and how a developer can use those features to build more powerful applications.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Episode 79
In this interview, Brian Genisio describes the Prism documentation and library and explains how he uses it to build applications.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Episode 78
In this interview, Jim Holmes discusses the importance of unit testing in writing high-quality, maintainable code.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In the last article, I explained how to edit a video and export it to a single MPG file. In this article, I will discuss how I share this video with the world.
Export
After I finish editing the video in Adobe Premiere Elements, I export it to a single MPG file. This is done by selecting the "Share" tab in the top right section of the editor. On the Share tab, I use the following settings: Personal Computer |MPG | NTSC DVD Standard. I enter a file name and select a directory and click the [Save] button to create a single MPG file containing my complete show.
Once I have a single MPG file, I can easily share it with others.
Upload
I upload the exported WMA file to a video-sharing site. I use Viddler because it is free and provides reasonably high-quality playback.
Viddler provides the ability to upload a file directly from their web site. I add metadata, such as a name and a description to each video.
Share
I link these videos from both DavidGiard.com and TechnologyAndFriends.com.
Viddler provides a button ("Embed This") that generates the HTML necessary to embed a video into a web page. I copy this HTML and paste it into a post on my two sites. Above the embedded video, I add some text to describe the video and any relevant links, such as the guest’s blog. I release both posts on the same day.
After releasing a new episode, I promote it via Twitter. I also send an e-mail to my guest, telling him or her that the interview is now available. Often my guest will link to the show from a blog or tweet, driving more traffic. If we are discussing someone else in the video, I often will e-mail that person or organization. After interviewing Jamie Wright about 37 Signals last year, I e-mailed 37 Signals to tell them about it. They linked to the video, which drove over 10,000 viewers to watch it.
My goal is to release at least one video every week, so I usually have a backlog of videos recorded, produced and ready to release.
Final Thoughts
On average, it takes me approximately 2 hours to produce a 20-30 minute show. This is in addition to the hour or so it takes to set up, prepare and record a show. So far, I’ve done this almost 80 times.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Episode 77
In this interview, Mike Amundsen explains the concept of REST and how a developer can use this pattern to build web applications.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Episode 76
In this interview, DevExpress evangelist Gary Short discusses technical debt and its effects on a software project.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Episode 74
Debbie Must describes the unique challenges of deploying her software and how she attacked these challenges.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Episode 73
In this interview, Corey Haines talks about software craftsmanship, what it means to him and his plan to improve the quality of coding in our industry.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Episode 72
C# MVP Darrell Hawley spends a lot of his time programming in Python these days. In this interview, Darrell describes the Django framework for developing web applications in Python.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Episode 71
In this interview, Tim Wingfield describes the Kanban system and how he uses it.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Episode 70
Dave Bost, the host of the popular Thirsty Developer podcast discusses what goes into each episode and some of the technology he uses to record and produce the show.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Episode 69
Shortly after CodeMash, chief cat herder Jim Holmes discusses what went into the planning and what makes this conference different.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Episode 68
James Bender, Mike Wood and Chris Woodruff created NPlus1.org to assist software architects, lead developers and those aspiring to these roles. In this interview, James and Mike discuss the goals and accomplishments of NPlus1.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Episode 67
In this interview, Steven "Doc" List discusses the concepts behind Open Spaces and Community Courtyards and his role in facilitating these events.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Episode 66
In this interview, Mary and Tom Poppendieck define competency, describe the importance of leadership and define the factors that make up these qualities.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Episode 65
Wrox just released a new book 'Testing ASP.Net web applications' by Jeff McWherter and Ben Hall. In this interview, Jeff and Ben discuss the importance of testing, the different types of tests and how to effectively test your web application.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Episode 64
In this interview, author and developer Bill Wagner discusses the dynamic features in the upcoming C# 4.0.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday evening, my show - Technology and Friends - appeared on Channel 17 (CTN) in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
I'm happy to announce that more episodes of Technology and Friends will be available on Comcast cable in my area. If you have Comcast cable in Washtenaw County, you can watch the show on Channel 17 at the following times.
Four episodes are scheduled to air over the next two weeks. The times are listed below.
The three episodes (Episode 48: Phil Japikse on HopeMongers.org; Episode 57: David Truxall on Debugging; and Episode 60: Stephen Toub on Parallel Computing) will air back-to-back-to-back at the following times.
| November 30, 2009 |
5:00 PM |
| December 3, 2009 |
2:00 PM |
| December 4, 2009 |
9:00 PM |
| December 5, 2009 |
6:00 PM |
| December 6, 2009 |
Noon |
| December 7, 2009 |
4:00 PM |
Episode 58: Sai Naik on the benefits of SharePoint will air at the following times.
| December 9, 2009 |
11:00 PM |
| December 10, 2009 |
8:30 PM |
| December 12, 2009 |
11:00 AM |
| December 14, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
| December 16, 2009 |
4:00 PM |
| December 19, 2009 |
7:00 PM |
As always, you can still view episodes on this site.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Episode 63
In this conversation, independent consultant Michael Eaton describes the challenges developers face estimating software projects. He then describes approaches to these challenges, based on his experience.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Episode 62
In this episode, Jay Harris discusses the challenges integration code from different team members and how Continuous Integration can help solve these challenges.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Episode 61
Chris Woodruff organized the 2009 Grand Rapids Give Camp which helped dozens of charities with software projects. On the final day of the Give Camp, Chris sat down with us to describe what went into the camp and what was accomplished.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Episode 60
Stephen Toub, lead Program Manager on the Microsoft Parallel Computing Platform team, sat down with us to discuss the reasons why parallel computing is important, the challenges in writing code to take advantage of multiple cores, and what Microsoft is doing to make it easier for developers to write this code.
Links:
Parallel Computing Developer Center
Parallel Programming with .NET
Monday, October 19, 2009
Episode 59
In this episode, Chris Woodruff discusses how to use RIA Services to separate concerns in a Silverlight application.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Episode 58
In this interview, Sai Naik describes the advantages of SharePoint and where it is a recommended solution.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Episode 57
In this interview, Dr. David Truxall discusses the art of debugging and dives into WinDbg and other tools to debug production issues.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Episode 56
In this interview, Microsoft Architect Evangelist Brian Prince describes what makes Windows 7 faster, more reliable and simpler.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Episode 55
In this interview, Microsoft IT Evangelist Matt Hester describes the new features and enhancements in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Episode 54
Kirstin Juhl came to software development from a career in manufacturing, where she learned about Lean principles. Now she sees those same principles being applied to software development. In this interview, she describes Lean in both worlds and compares the two.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Episode 53
Joe Kunk is writing a chapter covering XTraReports for Paul Kimmel's upcoming DevExpress tools book. In this interview, Joe describes XTraReports and how to use it.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Episode 52
Often, an application experiences a bottleneck retrieving and delivering data from a database. In this interfview, Jeremiah Peschka discusses ways to troubleshoot performance issues within a database.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Episode 51
Chris Hay is a Scotsman living in Cambridge, England. He has made several trips this year to developer conferences in North America. In this interview, he discusses what goes into a good presentation and how developer communities in the UK differ from those on my side of the ocean.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Episode 49
In this video, James Bender discusses REST services. He defeines REST, compares it to SOAP and describes how to implement REST services using WCF.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Episode 48
In this interview, Phil Japikse discusses his involvement with Hopemongers.org, a charity site focused on "micro-giving", allowing donors to give a small amount of money, directly to a charitable project.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Episode 46
In this interview, Craig Berntson describes continuous integration and how he uses it to increase productivity on his projects.
16 mins, 10 secs
Friday, August 28, 2009
Episode 45
In this interview, Jessica Moss describes SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS): What it is; how it works; and how to get started learning and using it.
7 mins, 48 secs
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Episode 44
Chris Smith is a software design engineer on the Microsoft Visual F# team. In this interview, Chris describes the uses of F# and how it differs from object-oriented languages, such as C# and Visual Basic.
21 mins, 51 secs
Monday, August 24, 2009
Episode 43
Kathleen Dollard is the only person I've met who is building a production application using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). In this interview, she describes how to use MEF and shares her vision of how it will affect the way we architect applications in the future.
17 mins, 37 secs
Friday, August 21, 2009
Episode 42
The 2009 Lansing Day of .Net was held August 1 at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing, MI. This was the first event that Dennis Burton organized and he discussed it with us here.
8 mins, 28 secs
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Episode 41
Sara Ford is the Program Manager for Microsoft's CodePlex site. In this interview, she discusses the CodePlex site, open source software, and what she has in common with an Apollo astronaut.
19 mins, 50 secs
Monday, August 17, 2009
Episode 40
On the third and final day of DevLink 2009, John Kellar sat down and talked about the planning and work that went into the conference; what the conference accomplished; and what it meant to the developer community.
13 mins, 35 secs
Monday, August 3, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Episode 38
I have been a fan of
TechSmith products for years.
In this interview, TechSmith Chief Evangelist
Betsy Weber describes the products offered by her company and the uses of those products.
13 mins, 13 secs
Monday, July 27, 2009
Episode36
Martin Shoemaker is the UML Guy.
In this interview, Martin explains what UML is and how to use it to improve your development process.
25 mins, 45 secs
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Episode 35
In this interview, Jesse Murray shares his opinions on how to implement SharePoint solutions "the right way".
17 mins, 52 secs
Monday, July 20, 2009
Episode 37
I spoke with Michael Eaton halfway through the 2009 Ann Arbor Give Camp. We talked about what went into this year's event and his ambitious plans for next year.
19 mins, 21 secs
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Episode 34
Brian Genisio is developing Silverlight and WPF applications using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. In this interview, Brian describes the pattern and how to use it.
8 mins, 56 secs
Monday, July 13, 2009
Episode 33
In this interview, Corey Schuman describes Silverlight. He discusses the difference between Silverlight and other technologies, such as Windows forms, ASP.Net and Flash.
10 mins, 30 secs
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Episode 32
In this video, author and speaker Josef Finsel describes moving databases to "The Cloud" using Azure Table storage. You can read more of his thoughts on the subject at http://azuredba.com/blog.aspx
11 mins, 9 secs
Monday, July 6, 2009
Episode 31
In this interview, Jim Wooley discusses the relevance of stored procedures and best practices for accessing a database.
13 mins, 32 secs
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Episode 30
This is only the second year of CodeStock but Mike Neel managed to expand the Knoxville conference to a 2-day event and more than double attendance to 376. In this interview, Mike talks about the conference and the developer community in the Heartland region.
17 mins, 15 secs
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Episode 29
Berlin software developer Ziad Hakim recently completed his first iPhone application. In this interview, Ziad discusses his application and the process of developing for the IPhone.
12 mins, 18 secs
Monday, June 1, 2009
Episode 28
In this interview, Aydin Akcasu describes how to use Microsoft .Net to write applications that interface with the remote controller for the Wii game console.
13 mins, 8 secs
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Episode 27
In this interview, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jennifer Marsman describes Windows Azure and tells how to get started developing applications using this platform.
14 mins, 35 secs
Monday, May 25, 2009
Episode 26
Microsoft MVP Chris Woodruff is one half of the team of "Keith and Woody" that host the popular Deep Fried Bytes podcast. In this interview, Chris talks about why they started this podcast and what makes it different.
17 mins, 58 secs
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Episode 25
Mike Hacker is the Practice Director for the Sogeti Michigan Microsoft Practice, which makes him my boss.
In this interview, Mike describes issues around single sign-on.
21 mins, 21 secs
Monday, May 18, 2009
Episode 24
Mike Wood recently traveled through Michigan giving a presentaion on Parallel LINQ (aka "PLINQ"), which is part of the Task Parallel Library included in .Net 4.0.
During this tour, Mike sat down with me to describe how to use PLINQ how it can improve the performance of your LINQ queries.
11 mins, 56 secs
Friday, May 15, 2009
Episode 23
Michael Letterle is a developer for Preemptive Solutions, a company that makes the .Net obfuscation product Dotfuscator. I was familiar with Dotfuscator, but I was unaware of most of their other products. In this interview, Michael describes the different software created by Preemptive.
8 mins
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Episode 22
For the past six years, Jamie Wright has been building applications using Rocky Lhotka's CSLA framework. In this interview, Jamie explains the framework and why he is such a fan.
10 mins, 23 secs
Monday, May 11, 2009
Episode 21
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg coordinated the Stir Trek conference in Columbus, OH to present highlights of the recent Mix09 conference. In the middle of the day, he took a few minutes to discuss what he was doing.
5 mins, 4 secs
Friday, May 1, 2009
Episode 20
David Edson of visibility.biz spends his time consulting on and teaching custom development using Microsoft Visio.
In this interview, he describes the advantages of using Visio as a platform for data visualization.
7 mins, 17 secs
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Episode 19
The Lansing Give Camp April 24-26 helped over a dozen charities.
After months of preparation and a weekend with almost no sleep, Jeff & Carla McWherter and Jay & Amy Harris still had enough energy to talk about what made this event so successful.
8 mins, 43 secs
Monday, April 27, 2009
Episode 18
Halfway through the first West Michigan .Net University, Chris Woodruff and Bill Miller sat down with me to discuss why they organized it and how it was going so far.
For more information on this event, you can visit dodn.org/WestMichiganDotNetU or read my earlier posts here and here
17 mins, 50 secs
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Episode 17
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 is currently in CTP3.
In this interview, Microsoft Technology Specialist Randy Pagels describes the new features of the upcoming release of this product.
Randy maintains a great deal of information on VSTS at TeamSystemCafe.net
11 mins, 52 secs
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Episode 16
Microsoft Technology Specialist Randy Pagels describes the benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. You can learn more about VSTS from Randy at http://www.teamsystemcafe.net/
4 mins, 18 secs
Friday, March 13, 2009
Episode 15
A Give Camp hooks up software developers with charities. This provides these charities with custom applications that they otherwise might not be able to afford.
This year, Michael Eaton is coordinating upcoming Give Camps in Michigan.
In this conversation, He describes how it worked last year and what he hopes to happen differently next year.
The Lansing Give Camp is scheduled for April 24-26 at the Impressoin 5 Science Center. The ann arbor Give Camp is scheduled for July 17-19 at Washtenaw Community College. You can get more information and register to help at these events by visiting http://michigangivecamp.org/
10 min, 31 sec
Note: This interview was recorded near the Open Spaces area at the Detroit Microsoft Developer Conference, so the sound quality suffers due to background noise. However Michael has so much good information that I encourage you to ignore this and listen to the end.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Episode 14
Jim Holmes takes a break from organizing and coordinating CodeMash to talk about the conference.
2 minutes, 38 seconds
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Episode 13
Matt Pizzimenti is involved in a2geeks.org - a social network for techies and entrepeneurs. He discusses it in this interview.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Episode 12
Mark Hindsbo is the General Manager of the Microsoft Evangelism group in the United States. In this interview, Mark talks about what Microsoft can do to help the developer community succeed.
2 minutes, 24 seconds
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Episode 11
After writing a distributed application, software architect Phil Japikse needed a way to deploy updates to users across the state. In this conversation, Phil describes the deployment strategy he implemented using tools provided by the .Net framework.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Episode 10
Tim Adams of Microsoft was filming a series of "Man On The Street" video interviews at CodeMash when I caught up with him. I interviewed him while he interviewed me and we each filmed the conversation.
Here is the conversation from my side:
Here is the same conversation from Tim's point of view:
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Episode 9
Mike Wood is the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User Group. He and I spoke about how to build a strong community and what makes the Microsoft Heartland Community so special.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Episode 8
Brian Prince joined Microsoft last year as an Architect Evangelist. In this interview, he talks about the experience and how it is different from any company he has worked for in the past.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Episode 7
Microsoft Architect Evangelist Darryl Hogan loves his job. In this interview, Darryl explains what he does why it rocks.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Episode 5
BizTalk Server is one of those products that many people have heard of, but few are familiar with.
In this discussion, Monish Nagisetty briefly and clearly explains the purpose and uses of BizTalk Server messaging
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Episode 4
I've attended two conferences where Alan Stevens helped to make Open Spaces a success. In this interview, Alan describes open spaces technology and explains his role in the process.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Episode 3
In this interview, Jason Follas explains spatial data types, which were introduced in SQL Server 2008
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Episode 2
Steve Smith sat down with me to share his ideas on increasing performance and scalability in your web applications.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Episode 1
I spoke with Telerik Developer Evangelist John Kellar at CodeMash about how to effectively interview tech people on camera and about the DevLink conference.
View John's video interviews at EdgeOfDev.com
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Episode 0
I'm starting a new feature on this site. I'll be publishing video interviews of smart people who are passionate about technology.
In Episode 0, I describe my goals for this feature.