Sunday, August 29, 2010
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In this interview, Sarah Dutkiewicz describes how she uses Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media to manage interactions with her various networks of geek and non-geek friends and colleagues.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Phil Winstanley calls it "Exception-Driven Development". He emphasizes the need for developers to consider what happens to their applications after deployment and how to mitigate issues that often arise during this maintenance period.
Cloud Computing is a hot topic these days. Mike Wood cautions that there are questions we should ask ourselves about our applications, before deciding whether to move them to the cloud.
In this interview, Jeremy Likness describes the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework and how it relates to Silverlight.
Layla Driscoll is the Program Manager on the Microsoft CLR team. In this interview, Layla discusses her role and what it means to be a Program Manager at Microsoft.
In this interview, Mike Neel and Dylan Wolf talk about the creation of their new website http://gamemarx.com, where they present reviews of video games.
Michael Kimsal, publisher of Jsmag, describes the current state of JavaScript.
ASP.Net MVC allows developers to use different view engines. In this interview, J Wynia describes the Spark MVC View Engine, how to use it and how to plug it into an ASP.Net MVC application.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Last year, I interviewed Nathan Blevins (Episode 50) about using Microsoft Robotics Studio to control robots. This year, he brought a robot with him and shows us how to use Lego Mindstorm to control the robot without wrting any code.
This panel discussion, held at Codestock in Knoxville, included organizers of the most successful community-run conferences in the Heartland. The panelists discussed what goes into planning a great conference and how to get started.
Steve Andrews describes the Geek Give event he organized at TechEd in New Orleans in which developers chipped in to help build a home for a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
In this interview, Phil Japikse describes the advantages of Automated Testing and what he does to improve the testability of his code.
In this interview, Brian Sherwin describes a recent project in which he improved application performance through refactoring.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
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This is a special 100th episode of Technology and Friends, featuring many of the friends who have appeared on the past 99 shows.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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In this interview, Mike Amundsen describes hypermedia and how it can change the way we use the web.