Visual Studio Feedback with Mads Kristensen

Carl and Richard talk to Jay Schmelzer about LightSwitch. Jay talks about the launch of LightSwitch back on July 26 2011, and the new set of extensions available to help Visual Studio Pro developers support LightSwitch applications. He also reminds us that if you own Visual Studio 2010, you own LightSwitch, so take it out for a spin!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

20 Sep 201151min

You asked for it, you got it - another space show! This time around Carl and Richard talk about the latest news around commercial space, including new contracts for SpaceX and Orbital Science to fly to the ISS. They discuss the impact of the failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship to the ISS. Then they have some real fun and dive into the space debris debate and the potential of space elevators. Another total space geek out!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

15 Sep 201139min

Carl and Richard talk to James Dawson and Grace Mollison about the DevOps movement. DevOps is about developers and operations personnel working closely together to deliver higher quality, more reliable applications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

13 Sep 20111h 2min

After Richard made some (somewhat) disparaging remarks about ColdFusion, Billy sent an email defending the platform. The outcome of that email discussion is this show - Carl and Richard get educated by Billy about what ColdFusion is about. ColdFusion goes back to 1995, and is still going strong at version 10! Billy talks about the similarities and differences between ColdFusion and ASP.NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

8 Sep 201147min

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

6 Sep 201152min

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

1 Sep 201147min

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

30 Aug 201157min

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

25 Aug 201148min