Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan
Scott sits down with NSpec authors Matt Florence and Amir Rajan to talk about Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Where does one start with BDD? Is BDD just TDD with a fancier name or can it really change how you design software? The NSpec guys set Scott on the right path.
25 Marras 201135min
Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups
Scott sits down with micro-ISV mobile developer Toran Billups. Toran has written, published and sold his mobile application on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. In the process of writing BlueFlix, his Blockbuster Express movie application, he learned mobile development on three platforms. What was his experience and what does that tell us about the state of mobile development today?
17 Marras 201136min
History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
One day Henrik Frystyk Nielsen met Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became his first graduate student. He joined the W3C and worked on HTTP and some of the first browsers. Henrik is one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification. He sits down with Scott and they chat about the history of the web from HTTP to the mysterious HTTP Status Code 418.
10 Marras 201136min
Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR
Damian Edwards and David Fowler have created a jQuery client-side library and an ASP.NET back end that promises to make real-time persistent connections available to .NET programmers. Long-polling, Server-sent events and WebSockets. What does it all mean? Damian sets us straight.
3 Marras 201135min
Designing a better experience with Sara Summers
Scott talks to Microsoft UX expert Sara Summers at the Heartland Developer's Conference. Sara has coauthored the recently published book for experienced designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas.
27 Loka 201134min
Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price
Scott goes directly to the source and talks to Phil Price from the Visual Studio team. Why is VS sometimes slow? When it is slow, what's really happening? What is PerfWatson and how will it help them make VS faster? All this and some hints in interesting improvements in the next version of Visual Studio!
21 Loka 201137min
Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization
Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, Even Faster Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons.
15 Loka 201136min
Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF
Not every startup starts up smoothly. Alex Papadimoulis shares his stories of near-failure moving from a consultancy to a software company while working on a wildly popular blog at night. What mistakes did his company make in sales and marketing, and how long did it take them to change course?
6 Loka 201133min
