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Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan

November 24, 2011 00:35:17 25.42 MB Downloads: 0

Scott sits down with NSpec authors Matt Florence and Amir Rajan to talk about Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Where does one start with BDD? Is BDD just TDD with a fancier name or can it really change how you design software? The NSpec guys set Scott on the right path.

Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups

November 17, 2011 00:36:32 26.31 MB Downloads: 0

Scott sits down with micro-ISV mobile developer Toran Billups. Toran has written, published and sold his mobile application on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. In the process of writing BlueFlix, his Blockbuster Express movie application, he learned mobile development on three platforms. What was his experience and what does that tell us about the state of mobile development today?

History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

November 10, 2011 00:36:16 26.12 MB Downloads: 0

One day Henrik Frystyk Nielsen met Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became his first graduate student. He joined the W3C and worked on HTTP and some of the first browsers. Henrik is one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification. He sits down with Scott and they chat about the history of the web from HTTP to the mysterious HTTP Status Code 418.

Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR

November 03, 2011 00:35:46 25.76 MB Downloads: 0

Damian Edwards and David Fowler have created a jQuery client-side library and an ASP.NET back end that promises to make real-time persistent connections available to .NET programmers. Long-polling, Server-sent events and WebSockets. What does it all mean? Damian sets us straight.

Designing a better experience with Sara Summers

October 27, 2011 00:34:36 24.93 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks to Microsoft UX expert Sara Summers at the Heartland Developer's Conference. Sara has coauthored the recently published book for experienced designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas.

Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price

October 21, 2011 00:37:19 26.87 MB Downloads: 0

Scott goes directly to the source and talks to Phil Price from the Visual Studio team. Why is VS sometimes slow? When it is slow, what's really happening? What is PerfWatson and how will it help them make VS faster? All this and some hints in interesting improvements in the next version of Visual Studio!

Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization

October 15, 2011 00:36:55 26.59 MB Downloads: 0

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, Even Faster Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons.

Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF

October 06, 2011 00:33:44 24.3 MB Downloads: 0

Not every startup starts up smoothly. Alex Papadimoulis shares his stories of near-failure moving from a consultancy to a software company while working on a wildly popular blog at night. What mistakes did his company make in sales and marketing, and how long did it take them to change course?

Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur

September 28, 2011 00:35:48 25.79 MB Downloads: 0

Gael Fraiteur had a full time job while working on the side on his open source Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) project "PostSharp." He's since turned his project into a successful commercial entity called SharpCrafters. What did he learn along the way and what can we learn from his successes and troubles? We also learn about Aspect Oriented Programming and how AOP tools like PostSharp can help your projects today.

Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller

September 22, 2011 00:35:54 25.86 MB Downloads: 0

Kendall Miller is a founder at .NET development tools vendor Gibraltar Software. They are two years into their their startup experiment and are becoming a small, mature company with some great products. How much did they need to fund their startup? How do they market and spread the word? What if there are free or open source versions of their software out there?

Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju

September 14, 2011 00:34:35 24.91 MB Downloads: 0

Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he use Open Source? When do they write their own libraries and when do they buy? What kinds of issues does a .NET startup run into when hiring?

Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell

September 06, 2011 00:36:46 26.48 MB Downloads: 0

This week Scott skypes with Paul in London. He's recently moved from Australia and has simultaneously launched his own micro-ISV focused on convention-based deployments made easy. What's involved? How did it get started and what does this Octopus Deploy do?

Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg

September 02, 2011 00:35:11 25.34 MB Downloads: 0

In this first Startup Series episode, Scott talks to Gabriel Weinberg about DuckDuckGo, his new search engine. How dare he go up against Google? He dare with better, more relevant search results. Learn how to be an overnight success in just 15 short years.

Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

August 25, 2011 00:36:08 26.03 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks to designer Jeremy Kratz about the design process from yellow legal pad to complete design. What kinds of things should a designer take into consideration? Where does design stop and CSS begin, or is there a distinction? Should YOU hire a designer?

Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data

August 18, 2011 00:31:58 23.03 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?