In this corner, Microsoft Developer Evangelist and author, G. Andrew Duthie. In the other corner, C# MVP, ASP Insider and Open Space Technology facilitator, Alan Stevens. This week, G. Andrew Duthie and Alan Stevens bring their recent “Real Software Development vs Microsoft Bubble Development” Twitter debate to Herding Code. It’s all the open and honest, fun-loving, snarky banter without the 140 character limit.
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Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues
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Jul 01
This week the guys talk to Greg Young about what he calls “our greatest failure”.
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Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our GRAND Failure – Thoughts on DDDD
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Jun 26
This week the guys talk to Damien Guard, a developer working on LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. After discussing data access for a while, they talk about the programming font Damien publishes, Envy Code R.
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Herding Code 50: Damien Guard on LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and Fontography
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Jun 19
Have you binged, bunged or banged using Microsoft’s Bing? Any idea the type of questions you should feed Wolfram|Alpha? This week on Herding Code, the guys talk about “new search things that have happened upon the Intertubes.” Are you planning to catch the Google Wave? Hear the cast’s thoughts on Google Wave and much more in this week’s Lightning Round.
Compliments of K Scott, another Lightning Round Strikes!
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Scott K’s Wolfram queries:
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Do these pants make me look fat?
Jon’s Wolfram queries:
GDP of Moldovia divided by Ernest Goes to Camp box office?
Escape velocity of Saturn divided by top speed of a cheetah?
Population of Vatican City divided by the square root of the number of hours in a leap year?
How to cook a Welshman?
K Scot’s Wolfram queries:
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Jon Udell’s Wolfram query:
(H1N1 Mexico Deaths / Mexico Cases) / (H1N1 US Deaths / US Cases)
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Herding Code 49: Search with Bing and Wolfram Alpha
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Jun 10
This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Dustin Campbell about Visual Studio 2010 Beta’s "super exciting" programming, debugging and extensibility features and the F# May CTP.
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Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010
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May 30
This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Joe Brinkman, Co-founder and Technical Fellow at DotNetNuke Corporation, about the ASP.NET MVC vs. Webforms debate, open source development, recent advancements in DotNetNuke and how to improve our industry and the community as a whole.
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Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC
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May 13
Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to learn from your own or, better yet, the mistakes of others! This week, the guys amuse and educate by graciously sharing some of their past developer mistakes.
As a bonus, the Extended Lightning Round!
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Herding Code 46: Mistakes and News Recap
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May 08
There’s a lot of community chatter around Domain Specific Languages (DSLs.) If you’re interested in hearing more, you won’t want to miss this episode as this week on Herding Code the guys interview Larry O’Brien, professional writer and software developer, on Domain Specific Languages, DSL DevCon, Lang.NET Symposium and a number of related talks.
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Herding Code 45: Larry O’Brien on Domain Specific Languages
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Apr 29
Whether you just want to write cool software for yourself or you are looking to kick off a side business, you can get started with little upfront investment. This week on Herding Code, the guys talk about the ease of becoming a one-man independent software vendor (ISV.)
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Herding Code 44: Microbusiness
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Apr 23
This week on Herding Code, Kevin leads a conversation with Javier Lozano on ASP.NET MVC and the Model View Controller (MVC), Model View Presenter (MVP), Model View ViewModel (MVVM) and Model Model View Controller (MMVC) patterns.
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Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the M in MVC
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Apr 17