Herding Code 91: Listener-Powered Lightning Round

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This week on Herding Code, K Scott, Jon, Kevin, and Scott K field your questions. That’s right – it’s a Listener-Powered Lightning Round! Whether you were interested in their opinions on Microsoft LightSwitch, energy drinks or how the current economic downturn affects quality and craftsmanship, this week’s conversation is being directed by you!

Thanks, listeners, for all of the great questions:

@mattcasto – What does the herding code crew think of LightSwitch
@detroitpro – What do you know of orchard? w/ @loudej on board it could be something. #HerdingCode
@detroitpro – Thoughts on Nu (gems in .NET) #HerdingCode
@MachaHack – If you were going to learn to program all over again, what would you do differently?
@mattcasto – What’s your favorite energy drink? #herdingCode #lightninground
@JimHolmes – Cake or Pie? (In honor of @stevehorn )
Ross Jempson – Why all the fuss about Microsoft.Data?
Ross Jempson – How did you get banned from chat.meta.stackoverflow?
Ross Jempson – I have a friend, here in Australia that queued up from 11:30pm one night for 11 hours to get an iphone4. Is an intervention required?
@JimHolmes – Failing cake or pie, do y’all think this downturn gives companies pause to rethink approaches to quality and craftsmanship?

And the show wraps with the prospect of turning urine to gold…

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Show notes compiled by Ben Griswold. Thanks!

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http://frazzleddad.com Jim Holmes

Nice show!

My question about craftsmanship in a downturn (and yes, there’s plenty of downturn outside Seattle regardless of one’s political views) was intended to be something of a leading question on using challenging times as an opportunity to position yourself or your company as a leader when things turn more positive.

Several folks and magazines have written about smart companies who’ve had to cut back workforce, but have used that as an opportunity to cut back dead wood and fix up wasteful processes.

I think the same opportunity exists to focus development groups on building software better so the companies are better positioned to deliver better value faster.

Of course, life being what it is, way too few companies handle downturns in a smart fashion, ergo the harsh reality of the conversation in the ‘cast — companies instead push to have crappy software delivered faster, accruing scads of long-term pain for a short term perceived gain.
Andy Whitfield

A great show! I was just about to request a non-interview show where it’s just the 4 of you talking about some of the recent news in .NET land.

I have a foot in the Java camp, and really enjoy the javaposse podcast which is also 4 guys, except they usually just talk about the news and occasionally have interviews.

Not that I mind the interviews, they can be interesting and insightful, but can also risk ending up as a 30+minute advert. Plus, there are a number of other .NET podcasts doing the standard interview format: DNR, DeepFried and Hanselminutes to name three – which is why I think these types of shows offer something a bit different where you are tend to be more free to express your opinions.

Hope these type of shows keep coming every couple of months or so – keep up the good work!
Matthew Nichols

Great show as always.

Orchard sounds/looks interesting. How about a show on it?

Matthew

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