Herding Code

This is the second half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Be sure to listen to part 1 first or Glenn’s crazytalk about MEF will spin your head around.

Links:

• Glenn’s Prism posts – http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
• Prism – www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
• Unity – http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
• MEF – http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
• MEF CTP – http://code.msdn.com/MEF
• Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

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Episode 12: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (Part 2)

This week, we catch up with Rob Conery. Topics:

1. SubSonic 2.1
2. Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion
3. Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky
4. MVC Storefront – has it made Rob a TDD believer
5. What else is Rob up to at Microsoft

Links:

• Rob’s Blog
• SubSonic

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Episode 9: Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefront, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad

This week, we discuss the use of virtual machines in software development. Topics:

1. Industry trends
2. VMware vs. Virtual PC (and other virtualization technologies)
3. Should you develop in a VM?
4. VM Tips and tricks

Links:

• Jeff (codinghorror) Atwood’s post on creating smaller virtual machines.
• Keeping clean and small virtual machines
• Invirtus vOptimizer
• Virtual Appliance Marketplace
• Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
• Virtual PC Guy’s Weblog
• Virtualization.Info
• IETester

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Herding Code 8: Virtual Machines