Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano

Today we reminisce with Jeff Webb about the very early years of Basic and Visual Basic at Microsoft. What was it like to work just a few offices down from BillG? When did Basic stop being ALL CAPS?

26 Sep 200832min

Scott talks to Brendan Eich from Mozilla about TraceMonkey, the new super-fast JavaScript engine. Where does Brendan think JavaScript is headed? What does the rise of JavaScript mean to Flash, Silverlight and RIAs in general?

19 Sep 200835min

Scott chats with Bertrand Le Roy, Program Manager for MS-Ajax at Microsoft. Where does Bertrand see Ajax and Javascript going in the future? We also chat about MS-Ajax 4.0s possible future and how to use templates and Javascript on the clientside.

12 Sep 200849min

Scott's in Australia this week, but he catches up with Scott Care from CloudDB.com and talks about the differences between MS-AJAX and jQuery. How does object-orientation work in Javascript?

4 Sep 200836min

Carl and Scott chat about what's new in .NET 3.5 SP1. There's a lot of new additions and improvements...should you care?

26 Aug 200831min

Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed.

15 Aug 200831min

In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Shaikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight.

6 Aug 200827min

In an interview organized on Twitter, Scott chats with Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and about Twitter and Microblogging and how the community squeezes performance of his WideFinder and WideFinder 2 challenges.

1 Aug 200831min