Octopus 3 with Damian Brady

Jeff Richter talks about the 1.1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) and gives a sneak peak at what's coming in the Orcas CLR. Also, News of the week and Rory's Top 10 reasons why C# is better than VB.NET ;-)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

26 Jul 20041h 53min

This week the one and only Clemens Vasters turns on the light about the future of distributed systems and SOA. If you didn't get it before now, you will after listening to this show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

19 Jul 20042h 1min

Tim Huckaby stops by to talk about his mission of preaching the SmartClient gospel. Tim is always full of fun, great stories, and common sense. Nickolas Landry surprises us by calling in and heckling Tim. Rory does the Google Weirdos and News of the Week, Carl scraps the Linux Vulnerability of the week (it was time) and Richard Campbell (the Toy Boy) reviews the nVidia GeForce 6800 (as well as a not-so-cool toy) and Carl gives one away to a lucky listener! All in all this was a great show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

12 Jul 20041h 52min

This week's show is a roundtable discussion with Mark Dunn, Dan Appleman, Bill Vaughn, Kathleen Dollard, Don Kiely, Pat Hynds, Julia Lerman, and Scott Hanselman. See what happens when you get a bunch of geeks on the phone and turn em loose!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

5 Jul 20041h 47min

Carl and Rory geek out with Richard Cambpell about everything but programming! Topics include water-cooled PCs, wireless gear, and flying cars. Yeah, it's not about .NET, but for crying out loud, live a little!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

28 Jun 20041h 50min

This week we had a very informative discussion about messaging with Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe. Benjamin and John cut through the WS-AlphabetSoup set of specifications, avoid frequent references to SOA and cover what the benefits of web services are, why you might want to use WSE (security, policy, addressing and support for TCP), how to use web services in your applications today and where Microsoft is heading with web services and Indigo in future. Michele Leroux Bustamante joined us unexpectedly in the second half, and she even told a great joke!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

21 Jun 20041h 58min

John and Barry talk with us about Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, and other aspects of Extreme Programming that are being used today. We had given lip service to unit testing in past shows, but John and Barry were able to explain the benefits as well as the how-to of test-driven developmentSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

14 Jun 20041h 40min

Rocky Lhotka talks about his new book, the CSLA framework, and makes the case for business objects in this world of DataSets and XML. He also talked a bit about WhiteHorse, Microsoft's new designers for SOA and classes shipping in the Whidbey timeframe. This was a great show, and we're always glad to talk to Rocky about all things .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

7 Jun 20041h 50min