Greg Philpott Develops in X++
Carl and Richard talk to Greg Philpott about X++, the most popular language you've never heard of. X++ is the programming language for Microsoft Dynamics AX, an Enterprise Resource Planning product formerly known as Navision. Greg digs into how X++ allows programmers to extend Dynamics AX, adding whole new modules as well as customizing behavior in the existing system.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
4 Okt 201148min
Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control!
Carl and Richard talk to Guy Smith-Ferrier about the Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset. No really! Mind control for .NET! Guy talks about how the headset is wireless and works with 16 different sensors positioned around the head. The headset is able to detect expressions, head movements, cognitive thoughts and emotions. Guy discusses how the SDK makes it simple to capture the headset data into .NET. Its easy to program, the question is, what would you do?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
29 Sep 201154min
Jeremiah Peschka Stores Data in CorrugatedIron
Carl and Richard talk to Jeremiah Peschka about his project, CorrugatedIron, a .NET library that gives developers the ability to talk to Riak, Basho's highly-available Key-Value store. The conversation starts with understanding Riak, which is based on Amazon's Dynamo white paper for dynamic distributed storage. Along the way the topics of NoSQL as a whole, distributed data storage, load balancing and functional programming are explored.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
27 Sep 201152min
Show 700 - What happened at BUILD did NOT stay at BUILD
Carl and Richard took thier recording rig to Tim Huckaby's epic party the night before Steven Sinofsky's keynote at the Microsoft BUILD conference September 13, 2011. They asked the industry insiders to speculate on what they would see. This is an interesting show simply because the veil of secrecy has finally been lifted.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
22 Sep 201146min
Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch
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
Carl and Richard Return To Space!
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
James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations
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
Billy Cravens Compares and Contrasts ColdFusion and ASP.NET
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
