.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard Geek Out on Nuclear Power

03 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The first geek out of 2013, Carl and Richard talk about nuclear power. Much feared and maligned, Richard walks through the principles of atomic theory...

What Developers Should Care About in 2013!

01 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

At the inaugural DevIntersection conference in Las Vegas, Carl and Richard hosted a panel to discuss what developers should care about in 2013. The pa...

Ward Bell Builds Breeze.js

27 Dec 2012

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At the San Francisco stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Ward Bell in the GitHub offices to talk abou...

A Very Haacky Christmas!

25 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Los Angeles stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Phil Haack to talk about Git and ...

Brian Randell Does DevOps on the Microsoft Stack

20 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Irvine stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard chatted with Brian Randell about the DevOps movement...

Venkat Subramaniam Talks Modern Development

18 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Houston stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Venkat Subramaniam to talk about deve...

Faster Development Cycles at Better Software

13 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Orlando stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard stopped at the Better Software conference to have s...

Matt Nunn Talks Modern Apps and the Modern App Lifecycle

11 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Bentonville stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Matt Nunn to talk about his visio...

Ken Pugh on Acceptance Test Driven Design

06 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While in Orlando for the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard stopped in at the Better Software conference to talk to Ken...

Mark Dunn Teaches MVC

04 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At the Jacksonville stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with former co-host of .NET Rocks! Mark Dun...

Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile

29 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip stop in Orlando Florida, Carl and Richard stopped into the Better Software conference and...

Steve Evans Instruments Applications

27 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Orlando stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talk to Steve Evans about his work instrumenting ap...

Dan North Deals with Uncertainty!

22 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Better Software show in Orlando during the Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Dan North about how development teams can manage uncerta...

John Papa Builds Single Page Applications

20 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Tampa stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to John Papa about building Single Page Applic...

Udi Dahan Talks CQRS, Agile and More

15 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At the Tallahassee Code Camp stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard chatted with Udi Dahan about development pr...

Oren Eini Does NoSQL First

13 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

On the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard stopped in at the NoVa Code Camp in Reston, Virginia and talked to Oren Eini ...

Alex Robson is a Principled Polyglot

08 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Louisville stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Alex Robson to dig deep on what it take...

Rocky Lhotka Brings CSLA to Windows 8 and Beyond

06 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Charlotte stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sit down with Rocky Lhotka to talk about his late...

Julie Lerman Digs Deep on EF5

01 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Atlanta stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talk to Julie Lerman about Entity Framework 5.Suppo...

Glenn Block Talks Node.js, WebAPI and China!

30 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Philly stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Block about Node.js, WebAPI and China....

Kim Tripp Makes Us Drink From the Firehose

25 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the New York stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip event, Carl and Richard talk to Kim Tripp and have to drink from the...

Don Syme and Keith Battocchi Bring F# Everywhere

23 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Boston stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talk to Don Syme and Keith Battocchi about F# 3.0. D...

Michele Leroux Bustamante Uses Azure with Her Start up!

17 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Toronto stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Michele Leroux Bustamante about her experience...

Alan Stevens and Leon Gersing Discuss Leading Developers

16 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While in Columbus, Ohio on the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip, Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens and Leon Gersing about leading a group ...

Architecture at DevReach

11 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevReach in Bulgaria, Carl and Richard moderated a panel on architecture with panelists Steve Smith, Miguel Castro and Charles Nurse. The con...

Web Performance at DevReach

09 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevReach, Carl and Richard hosted a panel on web performance with panelists Steve Smith, Kent Alstad and Paul Carvalho. The conversation star...

The Humanitarian Toolbox!

04 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

On the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip stop in Chicago, Carl and Richard sat down with Tony Surma of Microsoft to talk about disaster relief....

Bill Wagner Deals With Change

02 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At the Omaha stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard chatted with Bill Wagner. Bill talks about the approaching ...

Dr. Yngve Falck-Ytter talks Medicine and Software

27 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Yngve Falck-Ytter about his efforts to understand programming. Yngve talks about the limitations of the software in the m...

Sells and Hanselman Together in Portland on the Road Trip

25 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you put Chris Sells and Scott Hanselman on the same stage at the same time in front of 200 folks in Portland? Have a listen!Support ...

Ian Felton Aids School Marching Bands with Technology

20 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Ian Felton about his charity efforts. Ian talks about exercising different programming skills on different charitable project...

Alex Robson Programs a Polyglot

18 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Alex Robson about polyglot programming. Alex talks about various languages including Erlang. He focuses on the idea that diff...

Alan Stevens Talks Leadership

13 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens about leadership in software development. Really, leadership in everything. The conversation digs into the issue...

Jon Rozenblit Explores Azure's New Features

11 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jon Rozenblit about the latest set of features in Azure. The conversation starts with a discussion about Azure Mobile Service...

Show 800!

06 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Wow, show 800! Carl and Richard invite Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery to chat about what happens when you make 800 podcasts in a row.Support this podc...

Phil Trelford Codes in F# 3.0

04 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Phil Trelford about the new features in F# 3.0, the version shipping with Visual Studio 2012. Phil talks about how F# is func...

Chris Patterson Builds MassTransit

30 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Chris Patterson about MassTransit, an open source enterprise service bus. The conversation starts out talking about service b...

Mark Seemann Talks Web API and REST

28 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Seemann about building web applications using Web API and REST. The conversation starts out with the hard part - so what...

Carl and Richard Geek Out About Mars

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to geek out on Mars? Carl and Richard chat about the Mars Science Laboratory's arrival at Mars. Richard digs into the history of Mars exploratio...

Chris Jackson Makes Applications Compatible

21 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Chris Jackson of Microsoft about all the tricks and techniques he uses to make applications compatible from one version of Wi...

Sahil Malik Digs Into SharePoint 2013

16 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Sahil Malik about the upcoming 2013 edition of SharePoint. Sahil digs into the new features in 2013, including better workflo...

Brian Harry Manages Development with Studio 2012

14 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft tech fellow Brian Harry about Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server. ...

Jason Zander Ships Visual Studio 2012!

09 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft VP Jason Zander about the release of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. Jason addresses many of the key points around...

Julie Lerman Explores Entity Framework 5

07 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard chat with Julie Lerman about Entity Framework 5. EF5 ships with .NET 4.5 - yep, they broke the number synchronization this time aroun...

Jay Schmelzer and Chris Finlan Build HTML 5 Apps with Lightswitch

02 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jay Schmelzer and Chris Finlan about LightSwitch. Jay is one of the leaders of LightSwitch at Microsoft and talks about some ...

Andrew Arnott Logs In with DotNetOpenAuth

31 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Arnott about DotNetOpenAuth. DotNetOpenAuth is an implementation of OAuth, OpenID and InfoCard technologies is an easy...

Jon McCoy Hacks .NET

26 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Darth Vader, a.k.a. Jon McCoy who shows developers how to hack .NET apps in memory and on disk. This turns into a pretty dark...

Michael Heydt Develops with TPL Dataflows

24 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Michael Heydt about the Task Parallel Library Dataflows feature added in .NET 4.5. Moving beyond the basics of the TPL, Micha...

Bruce Lawson Has Responsive Web Design

19 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At NDC, Carl and Richard talk to Bruce Lawson about responsive web design. Responsive web design from Bruce's point of view is web pages that are able...

Lucian Wischik Enlightens Us on Async and Parallelism

17 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talk to Lucian Wischik about using Async and Await in .NET 4 and 4.5. Lucian talks through some great scenarios of ho...

Uncle Bob Talks about the Future of Object Orientation

12 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Bob Martin about where object orientation is going. Bob starts out talking about the fundamentals of where object orientation...

Hadi Hariri Does Real World MVC

10 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at NDC is Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard talk to Hadi Hariri about MVC. Hadi talks about his experiences building MVC applications, starting wit...

Sondre Bjellas Builds Apps for Facebook

05 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Carl and Richard talk to an actual Norwegian! Sondre Bjellås sits down with the boys to talk ab...

Remy Sharp Still Building Web Pages with HTML 5

03 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at NDC, Carl and Richard talk to Remy Sharp about HTML 5. Remy discusses the state of things, how the diversity of browsers is as much a strengt...

The State of Development Methodology at DevTeach

28 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevTeach, Carl and Richard hosted a panel discussion on development methodology. Panelists James Kovacs, Mario Cardinal, Charles Max Wood and...

J Sawyer Does Complex Event Processing with StreamInsight

26 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to J Sawyer about StreamInsight. Part of the SQL Server platform, StreamInsight is a stand-alone install that allows you to do c...

Paul Betts and Tim Clem Use GitHub with Windows

21 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Paul Betts and Tim Clem of Git about the new GitHub for Windows. GitHub has always been accessible by Windows, but far more L...

Venkat Subramaniam Thinks Functionally

19 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

At NDC Carl and Richard talk to Venkat Subramaniam about functional programming. Venkat digs into the idea that functional programming is less about l...

The State of Agile Panel at NDC

14 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard moderated a panel of luminaries from the agile world about the state of...

Stephen Toub Does Parallel Development in Studio 11

12 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Toub about how the beta of Studio 11 has impacted parallelism. The conversation starts with a solid discussion about ...

Stephen Bohlen Talks About the Evolution of the Architect

07 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Bohlen about architecture. The conversation starts with Stephen's work on spring.net and the relationship between Jav...

Scott Hunter Goes to ASP.NET 4.5 and Beyond!

05 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard start out talking to Scott Hunter about what's coming up in ASP.NET - but then he goes beyond! The conversation starts out talking ab...

Dominick Baier Updates Us on Identity in .NET 4.5

31 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard catch up with Dominick Baier to talk about the changes to identity in the 4.5 Framework, Windows 8 and Server 2012. Dominick lets us ...

Joel Semeniuk Talks Agile and Lean

29 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Joel Semeniuk about various styles of agile development. The conversation starts with addressing a comment from a listener on...

Carl and Richard are Back in Space!

24 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard are back in space! With the SpaceX launch to the International Space Station, the boys decide they have to talk about space again. A ...

Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11

22 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Beth Massi about the latest incarnation of LightSwitch. In 2011 LightSwitch shipped as a separate install, but the upcoming v...

Mister Franklin Goes to Washington

17 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday, May 6th, Carl went to Washington, DC for a Fly-In at the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) for the purpose of talking to Senator...

Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11

15 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Micheal Learned about the new ALM features coming in Visual Studio 11.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-r...

Rob Conery Codes in CoffeeScript

10 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Rob Conery about CoffeeScript. Why would you use a language to generate Javascript? Rob talks about how Coff...

Brian Noyes Builds Single Page Applications

08 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about the Single Page Application (SPA) feature coming in MVC 4. Brian talks about the similarities of the design...

Catching Up with Ted Neward

03 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard catch up with Ted Neward - it had been too long since he was on! The conversation starts off talking about the maturity of .NET and h...

Glenn Block Does node.js on Azure

01 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Block about node.js on Azure. Glenn digs into how node.js has grown in popularity, and points to the Cloud9 IDE as a de...

Carl and Richard Geek Out About Wind Power!

26 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard continue the Geek Out series on alternative energy with wind power. The conversation starts with the admission that as much as has be...

Jeroen Hulscher Builds Accessible Web Applications

24 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jeroen Hulscher about web accessibility. Accessibility challenges come in lots of different forms, and the way we build web p...

Memory Management with Ricky Leeks

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard have a discussion with a vegetable. Yeah, that's right, we interviewed a leek named Ricky Leeks. Beyond all the endless puns, is a gr...

RavenDB on MSNBC!

17 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to John Bennett and Colin Hicks from MSNBC along with Oren Eini about the role RavenDB has played in building applications. John...

The State of the Cloud at DevConnections

12 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Another panel discussion from DevConnections, this one focused on how cloud computing is impacting developers. No holds are barred as the panel digs i...

Web App Design Shootout at DevConnections

10 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A panel discussion at DevConnections in Las Vegas digs into different styles of web application development in 2012 - comparing web forms to MVC to th...

Bart de Smet has Reactive Extensions

05 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Bart de Smet about the beta of Reactive Extensions (Rx) Version 2. Currently in beta when the show was recorded, Rx 2.0 works...

Bill Wilder Does Hadoop on Azure

03 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Bill Wilder about Hadoop on Azure. Hadoop is a technology for analyzing massive (petabytes) amount of data efficiently. Origi...

Carl and Richard Geek Out on Solar Power

29 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The first of many alternative energy geek outs, Carl and Richard talk about solar power. The boys talk about using solar in the home in the form of th...

Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves Program in Erlang

27 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves about programming in Erlang. Erlang is a language built by the telecommunications industry for max...

The Future of the Web at Prairie DevCon

22 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Prairie DevCon in Calgary, Carl and Richard moderated a panel discussion on the future of the web with panelists James Kovacs, Andrew Nur...

Mike Diehl Fixes Us Up with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012

20 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Mike Diehl about Data Quality Services (DQS) in SQL Server 2012. DQS is a new tool for SQL Server, as Mike points out, Micros...

Steve Rogalsky Maps User Stories

15 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Prairie DevCon in Calgary, Carl and Richard chatted with Steve Rogalsky about User Story Mapping. Steve explains how User Story Mapping h...

Phil Haack Doesn't Work at Microsoft

13 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his life after Microsoft. Phil talks about his viewpoint on open source, both software and projects (not the...

Tim Huckaby Waves His Hands at Kinect for Windows

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Tim Huckaby about his work with the latest version of Kinect, Kinect for Windows. Tim talks about his work building interacti...

Rob Mensching Does Installations with the WiX Toolset

06 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Rob Mensching about the WiX Toolset, a popular Open Source project for all your software installation needs. How good is WiX ...

Juan Campa Programs with XNA

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Juan Campa about developing software using XNA. Juan discusses the challenges of building XNA games and shows how his product...

Jason Kaczor Uses HTML 5 in Sharepoint

28 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jason Kaczor about developing Sharepoint using HTML 5. Jason discusses the dangers of making web parts and how HTML 5 is a sa...

Keith Brown Does ETL Between RavenDB and SQL Server

23 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Keith Brown of Pluralsight about his work with RavenDB and SQL Server. The topic calls back to earlier conversations about th...

Derick Bailey Explores JavaScript Frameworks

21 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Derick Bailey about JavaScript in general and JavaScript frameworks specifically. The conversation starts out with a discussi...

Carl and Richard Geek Out With SmartGrids

16 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard Geek Out about SmartGrids! This show picks up where the Electricity show leaves off. Smart Grid technology is a somewhat loaded term ...

Clemens Vasters is Still on the Service Bus

14 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Clemens Vasters about his work on the service bus. These days the service bus is called the Windows Azure Service Bus - part ...

John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Yes it's true - Carl and Richard are talking to John Petersen about piracy again. In the wake of show 736 on SOPA, a lot more information has come to ...

Eric Sink Distributes His Source

07 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Eric Sink about his latest work in distributed version control. Eric talks about his latest project called Veracity, an open ...

Rob Labbe Gets Us Rolling on the Security Development Lifecycle

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Rob Labbe about the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). After a quick detour down the SOPA discussion, Rob fills the boys i...

Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5

31 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Likness about Silverlight 5. Is Silverlight dead? Not by a long shot. Jeremy talks about the great work going on the S...

John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property

26 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to John Petersen about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA, which is now defunct, was an attempt to legislate means to stop ...

Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET

24 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Troy Hunt about ASP.NET Security. Troy is an advocate of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and wrote a set of...