Episode 1900 with Scott Hanselman!

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in programming. The conversation spans over use of computers in schools, teaching fundamental uses of computers, actual programming, and looking beyond. Andrew gets into Imagine Cup, a world-wide competition of students building software to change the world.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

3 Feb 201145min

Carl and Richard talk to Grant Skinner about Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML 5 game. The game runs on all of the HTML 5 browsers including IE 9 Beta. The conversation also digs into Easel JS, an open-source library that Grant helped create to make Pirates, simplifying the animation process on HTML 5 canvas.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

1 Feb 201150min

Carl and Richard talk to Michael Doc Norton about how developers can grow their career. The conversation dives deep into techniques and approaches to practice in development, comparing it to music and katas. The reference sharpen the saw comes from Stephen Covey, and focuses on the idea of practice independent of work.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

27 Jan 201156min

Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Toub from Microsoft about parallel development. Stephen digs into the Async-CTP, released in October 2010, to provide asynchronous keywords Async and Await. The conversation also digs into what's coming next in the parallel space from the team.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

25 Jan 201158min

Carl and Richard participated in a panel discussion at Codemash 2011 on January 12, 2011 alongside the hosts of the popular Java Posse podcast. The discussion was moderated by Barry Hawkins. They talked about the differences and similarities between the Java and .NET ecosystems, the origins of their podcast (and ours), and more. Even if you're not a Java developer this is great stuff.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

20 Jan 20111h 12min

Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about the state of Team Foundation Server (TFS) today. Joel digs into how TFS has moved into the cloud and is reaching a larger span of developers. The conversation digs into how to split the work of development up between cloud and premise - source code on the cloud, builds locally, etc.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

18 Jan 201151min

While at CodeMash, Carl and Richard talk to Phil Japikse about Behaviour Driven Developement. Phil has been doing TDD and BDD for years and has an interesting take on how to be successful with the process - primarily getting over the 'blank slate syndrome.'Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

13 Jan 201137min

Carl and Richard talk to Boris Scheiman about nKinect, a codeplex project to bring Kinect to .NET! Boris talks about what it takes to make nKinect work and the new features that are coming, while Carl and Richard geek out on the possibilities. Minority Report is here!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

11 Jan 201147min