K Scott leads the discussion as we look back at 2008, and speculate wildly on what 2009 has to offer.

Note: Scott K’s taking a podcasting break to change diapers and stuff.

Looking back at 2008

• Google Chrome
• Kevin’s new iPhone
• Kevin’s Firefox extension addiction
• Hulu
• IE8 – better than expected, but still a ways to go
• ASP.NET MVC
• Silverlight 2
• Oslo
• Azure
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• ADO.NET Data Services
• REST is finally accepted in the .NET world
• The Seinfeld / Gates ads
• OpenID
• Netbooks (Oragami at last?)
• Twitter’s recovery
• Overhyped stuff: Surface, cloud computing, multi-core madness
• Functional programming
• DI/IOC hitting the Microsoft mainstream
• [sidebar - the tradeoff between DI benefits vs. Silverlight XAP size]
• StackOverflow
• [sidebar - frustration with Microsoft forums]

Looking forward at 2009

• Windows 7
• Office 14
• Project Pink? (Zune on Windows Mobile)
• [sidebar - frustrations Zune]
• WPF in Visual Studio
• [sidebar - is there a correlation between unmanaged code and lame Microsoft products?]

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Herding Code 30: Year-end wrapup