This week, the Herding Code cast talks shop with Scott Watermasysk about cloud computing, blogging platforms, Internet Explorer, the DotNetOpenId project and much more:

• Scott W, Scott K and Jon discuss Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
• Jon asks Scott W to share his thoughts on blogging platforms and the difficulties around their development due to their many edge cases and full feature set.
• Scott W answers a listener question about his thoughts on Silverlight.
• Scott K, Jon and Scott W rant about corporations continuing to run IE6, why IE8 killed Scott W’s inner child and why, oh why, won’t Microsoft just rewrite Internet Explorer already.
• Scott W shares his strategy for evaluating and learning new technologies and how to successfully manage remote development teams.
• Scott W and the guys talk about the demise of SQL and the higher dependency on ORMs and traditional database alternatives like CouchDB.
• Scott W comments on Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC and whether these technologies help solve his customers’ problems today.

Show Links:

• Scott Watermasysk’s blog – http://simpable.com
• Telligent – http://telligent.com/
• Community Server – http://communityserver.com/
• Community Server Evolution – http://telligent.com/products/community-server-evolution/
• Azure – http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
• Amazon Web Services – http://aws.amazon.com/
• Google App Engine – http://code.google.com/appengine/
• Mix 2009 – http://2009.visitmix.com/
• CouchDB – http://couchdb.apache.org/
• BigTable – http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
• SubText – http://www.subtextproject.com/
• BlogEngine.NET – http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
• .Text – http://forums.asp.net/149.aspx
• .Text on GotDotNet (web archive)
• Oxite – http://www.codeplex.com/oxite
• Zawinski’s Law – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski’s_Law_of_Software_Envelopment#Quotes
• IE8 – http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx
• Gecko – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko
• WebKit – http://webkit.org/
• Browser Speeds Test – http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html
• Silverlight – http://silverlight.net/
• MEF – http://www.codeplex.com/MEF
• The Greatest Scott of Them All – http://weblogs.asp.net/Scottgu/
• dotnetopenid Project – http://code.google.com/p/dotnetopenid/
• CardSpace – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480189.aspx
• NHibernate – http://www.hibernate.org/343.html
• Subsonic – http://subsonicproject.com/
• Entity Framework – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697427(vs.80).aspx
• Apology-Based Computing – http://simpable.com/software/apology-based-computing/
• Eric Evan’s Book – http://domaindrivendesign.org/books/index.html#DDD
• Tokbox – http://www.tokbox.com/
• Velocity – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&displaylang=en
• ASP.NET MVC – http://www.asp.net/mvc/
• Phil Haack – http://www.haacked.com/

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Episode 36: Scott Watermasysk

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