.NET Rocks!

.NET on Google Cloud with Chris Sells

18 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

More cloud choices! Carl and Richard welcome Chris Sells back onto .NET Rocks after three years and a career change - Chris is now at Google! And he's...

Building Cross-Platform Apps using Electron with David Neal

17 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There has been lots of conversation about cross-platform mobile apps, but how about cross-platform desktop apps? Carl and Richard talk to David Neal a...

Migrating to .NET Core with Matt Watson

16 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to move to .NET Core? Carl and Richard talk to Stackify's Matt Watson about their efforts to migrate their applications to the RTM editions of t...

Electric Aircraft Geek Out

11 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Could there really be airliners powered by electricity? Time for a Geek Out! The conversation starts out with Richard talking about the Solar Impulse,...

Full-stack ReactiveX with Qiming Liu

10 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's a really modern web app look like? Carl and Richard talk to Qiming Liu about the Reactive Trader Cloud, demonstrating the synergy between the c...

Building Multi-Tenant Applications with Paul Stovell

09 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to make an application support multiple customers? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Stovell about his work making multi-tenant applicat...

Developer Playgrounds in HyperDev with Daniel Moore

04 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How long does it take you to get an idea into a URL? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Moore about HyperDev - a tool to make the shortest possible path ...

F# to Javascript with Tomas Petricek

03 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

F# that transpiles to Javascript! Wait, what? While at NDC is Oslo, Carl and Richard chatted with Tomas Petricek about the Fabel project, combining F#...

State of DevOps at DevTeach

02 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So how's your DevOps doing? While at DevTeach in Montreal, Carl and Richard hosted a panel of Stephane LaPointe, Dylan Smith, William Buchwalter and A...

Women in Tech and Code Pub with Astrid de Laval and Andreas Persson

28 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do we get more women involved in programming? Carl and Richard talk to Astrid de Laval and Andreas Persson about CodePub, a gathering hosted by Ne...

R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to learn R? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova to talk about what .NET developers need to know t...

Security Panel from NDC

26 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time to get scared times three! While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard hosted a security panel of Troy Hunt, Niall Merrigan and Stephen Haunts in front o...

Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Geek Out

21 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to talk about Thorium again? Since the last Thorium Geek Out in 2013, there have been a number of important developments. Richard takes Carl on ...

AllJoyn with Jimmy Engstrom

20 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do we get all our IoT devices talking to each other? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard chatted with Jimmy Engstrom about AllJoyn, a Qualcomm ...

ASP.NET Core with Shawn Wildermuth

19 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

ASP.NET Core is released, now what? Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about his efforts to migrate to the RTM of ASP.NET Core. As Shawn points...

Learning Tech on KataCoda with Ben Hall

14 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's the best way for you to learn new technology? Carl and Richard talk to Ben Hall about his latest creation, KataCoda. KataCoda is a free web sit...

Understanding Cake with Gary Ewan Park

13 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Write your build scripts in C#! While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talked to Gary Ewan Park about Cake - aka C# Make. Cake is a cross platform bui...

Fixing File Paths in .NET Core with Jeremy Kuhne

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Quick, how long can a file path in .NET be? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Kuhne, who has taken on the challenge of breaking the 260 character limit ...

Hololens Development with Rene Schulte

07 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Hololens SDK edition is out - are you ready to write some code? Carl and Richard talk to Rene Schulte at NDC Oslo about his work building apps for...

Software Testing for Failed Projects with Todd Gardner

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does testing contribute to the failure of a project? Todd Gardner chats with Carl and Richard at NDC Oslo about his experiences with failing proje...

Cloud Infrastructure with Paul Stack

05 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to build for the cloud? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard chatted with Paul Stack about thinking about architecture specific fo...

Lie Detection using Azure Machine Learning with Jennifer Marsman

30 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Can you detect lies with machine learning? Jennifer Marsman can! Carl and Richard chatted with Jennifer while at the NDC conference in Oslo. Jennifer ...

Deep into Elixir with Rob Conery

29 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to go deeper into Elixir? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard caught up with Rob Conery to see how his obsession with Elixir and Erlang has e...

C# 7 with Mads Torgersen

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's next for C#? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard talked with Mads Torgersen about what's coming up in C# 7. But first some fun, talking about h...

Reusable Spacecraft Geek Out

23 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time to get Geeky in space! Carl and Richard talk about what it takes to make a truly reusable spacecraft. First up is the venerable space shuttle, wh...

.NET Core and Kestrel with David Fowler and Damian Edwards

22 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It's an exciting time for .NET! While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with David Fowler and Damian Edwards to talk about the development of ...

CSLA 4.6 with Rocky Lhotka

21 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time for a new version of CSLA! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about the latest incarnation of the venerable business object framework that sta...

Building Virtual Reality Apps for Vive VR in Unity3D with Jason Weimann

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Virtual Reality is here, and there are choices! Carl and Richard talk to Jason Weimann about the HTC Vive, the competitor to the Oculus Rift. Jason ta...

Instrumenting Mobile Apps with Greg Shackles

15 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know how people are actually using your mobile apps? Carl and Richard chat with Greg Shackles about his work instrumenting mobile apps in produ...

DevOps is Dead with Wes Higbee

14 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is DevOps dead, or just a fad? Carl and Richard talk to Wes Higbee about his experiences building great software. As Wes says, don't let any methodolo...

Competitive Machine Learning with Anthony Goldbloom

09 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can competition teach machine learning? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle about competitive machine learning. Kaggle hosts comp...

Window Container Service with Els Putzeys

08 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Here comes Windows Containers! While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard talk to Els Putzeys about the current technical preview of Windows Cont...

Continuous Delivery 3.0 with Marcel de Vries and Rene van Osnabrugge

07 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you do continuous deployment? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard sat down with Marcel de Vries and Rene van Osnabrugge to talk abo...

Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann

02 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to think differently about programming? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard chatted with Mark Seemann about his experiences with Has...

Xamarin Forms Update with James Montemagno

01 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Even more new stuff from Xamarin! While at Techorama in Mechelen, Belgium, Carl and Richard sat down with James Montemagno to talk about all the goodn...

Thinking Non-Relational Data with Oren Eini

31 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your non-relational data? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini about his work with RavenDB and getting ...

Changing Developers Minds with Julie Lerman

26 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you change a developer's mind? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard talk to Julie Lerman about her experiences working with a variet...

Open Source Panel at Techorama

25 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does modern open source look like? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard moderated a panel of Bill Wagner, Udi Dahan, Nik Molnar and Ji...

Identity as a Service with Vittorio Bertocci

24 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can you keep your customer identity information safe? While at Techorama in Mechelen, Belgium, Carl and Richard talk to Vittorio Bertocci about Mi...

GMO, BT and Glyphosate Geek Out

19 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

More Geeking Out on GMO Foods! This time, Richard digs into the more controversial side of genetic modification - making crops that are resistant to p...

The .NET Community with Sam Basu and John Bristowe

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Where is the .NET community going? Carl and Richard talk to Sam Basu and John Bristowe of Telerik about the data they've gathered in their 2016 Develo...

Web Performance using Prefix with Matt Watson

17 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What is slowing your web site down? Carl and Richard talk to Matt Watson, CEO of Stackify, about their free product called Prefix. Method profiling ha...

Hacking, SQL Injection, Ransomware and More with Troy Hunt

12 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

That scary guy is back! Carl and Richard talk to Troy Hunt about the latest state of affairs in the hacking world. Yes, SQL Injection is still a thing...

Thinking Android with Joshua Vergara

11 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you think about Android? Carl and Richard talk to Josh Vergara, Android-fan, non-developer and head of Android Authority about his experiences ...

The Evolution of Services with Juval Lowy

10 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So is every class a service? While at DevIntersection in Orlando, Carl and Richard talk to Juval Lowy about how his statement nearly ten years ago has...

Octopus 3 with Damian Brady

05 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you deploy your applications? While at DevIntersection, Carl and Richard chatted with Damian Brady from Octopus about the latest version of Oct...

Talking Core with Scott Hunter

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Hunter is back and managing the whole .NET platform! While at DevIntersection in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with Scott to talk about his...

Mobile DevOps Pipeline with Donovan Brown

03 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage the building, monitoring and maintenance of mobile apps? Carl and Richard talk to Donovan Brown about how all the pieces have come t...

Universal Apps on XBox One with Chris Gomez

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Universal Apps are becoming more universal - arriving on the XBox One! Carl and Richard talk to Chris Gomez about the announcements at the Microsoft B...

Fixing the Web with Douglas Crockford

27 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Web is broken - time to fix it! While at DevIntersection in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with Douglas Crockford to talk about the problems t...

InfoSec for Developers with Kim Carter

26 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What do developers need to know about information security? Carl and Richard talk to Kim Carter about his experiences helping developers secure their ...

Supersonic Aircraft Geek Out

21 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Concorde is gone, what will replace it? Time for a Geek Out! Richard talks about the aeronautical evolution that led to supersonic airliners, Concorde...

The Hardware Side of IoT with Jon Bruner

20 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How has hardware evolved when it comes to the Internet of Things? While at Build 2016 in San Francisco, Carl and Richard sat down with Jon Bruner from...

Making Windows Command Line Cool with Richard Turner

19 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can the command line be cool? Carl and Richard talk to Richard Turner, freshly back into Microsoft, and working on the Bash on Windows project. So...

MonoGame and XBox One with Tom Spilman

14 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to code for XBox One? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Spilman about his efforts to bring MonoGame to the XBox One. When the XBox One came out a few...

.NET Startups with Alec Lazarescu

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Are there startups running .NET? Sure! Carl and Richard talk to Alec Lazarescu about his experience running LearnBop. The applications are built in .N...

Learning NodeJS with David Gatti

12 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for JavaScript on the server? Carl and Richard talk to David Gatti about building the backend with nodeJS. The conversation starts out with why ...

Making Band Apps with Charles Stacy Harris

07 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you checked out Microsoft Band? Carl and Richard talk to Charles Stacy Harris about his work building Band apps. The Band is stuffed with sensors...

Aurelia Update with Rob Eisenberg

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time for an Aurelia update from the man himself! Carl and Richard talk to Rob Eisenberg about the latest developments in the Aurelia project - and wha...

Cordova vs Xamarin with Brian Noyes

05 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When do you choose Cordova over Xamarin and vice versa? Carl and Richard chat with Brian Noyes, who has built apps on both stacks and talks through th...

Understanding Microsoft Graph with Jeremy Thake

01 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft as a Service? Carl and Richard chat with Jeremy Thake about all the goodness coming from the Office 365 team and beyond in the Azure space. ...

Xamarin Joins Microsoft!

31 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft buys Xamarin! While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza about what the acquisition of Xamarin means. Th...

Making MSDeploy Work with Robert Schiefer

29 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

MSDeploy can do it! Carl and Richard talk to Robert Schiefer about his experiences using MSDeploy to automate complex deployment solutions throughout ...

Genetically Modified Foods Geek Out

24 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What do you know about genetically modified foods? Time for a Geek Out! Richard starts with some history as usual - humans have been modifying food pl...

Angular 2 with John Papa

23 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for the new Angular? Carl and Richard talk to John Papa about Angular 2 being in beta. And really in beta - John mentions that for the past few ...

Looking into C# 7 with Kathleen Dollard

22 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How is C# 7 coming along? Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen Dollard about her involvement in the very public process that is the open source developme...

Cross Platform UI in .NET with Curtis Wensley

17 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build cross-platform desktop applications? Carl and Richard talk to Curtis Wensley about eto.forms, an open source project he started back ...

Transpiling Javascript Using Babel with Craig McKeachie

16 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to transpile your Javascript? Carl and Richard chat with Craig McKeachie about BabelJS, an open source tool for transpiling Javascript. Why woul...

Pattern Aware Programming using PostSharp with Gael Fraiteur

15 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Where do development patterns fit into your world? Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur about the evolution of PostSharp into a library for implemen...

Marten on PostGres with Jeremy Miller

10 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's missing from most document data storage technology? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about Marten, an open source document data store lib...

Azure Continuous Delivery with Jeffrey Palermo

09 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Can you continuously deliver software on Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Jeffrey Palermo about his approach (and toolkit) to do continuous delivery - ...

Release Management with Kevin Mack and Brandon Rohrer

08 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your software releases? Carl and Richard talk to Kevin Mack and Brandon Rohrer about the various tools that come together to help au...

Building the Azure Portal with Jakub Jedryszek

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you used the biggest, most complex Single Page Application (SPA) in the world? It's the Azure Portal! Carl and Richard talk to Jakub Jedryszek, o...

Virtual Realty, XAML and More with Laurent Bugnion

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does Virtual Reality and XAML have to do with each other? Carl and Richard talk to Laurent Bugnion about his work around building virtual reality...

Containers and Microservices Panel at NDC London

01 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So where are containers and microservices going? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard hosted a panel discussion with Michele Bustamante, Mark Rendle ...

The Economics, Psychology and Science of Agile with Matthew Renze

25 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Do agile development practices make economic sense? Carl and Richard chat with Matthew Renze about his views on the economics, psychology and science ...

Machine Learning on Azure with Gary Short

24 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get started with machine learning? On the last stop of the Scot Net Rocks tour, Carl and Richard talked to Gary Short about his work indepe...

Agile Change with Chris McDermott

23 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can you bring change to your organization in an agile way? While on the ScotNetRocks tour, Carl and Richard talked to Chris McDermott about his ex...

Modern Agriculture Geek Out

18 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Geeking out on agriculture? Of course! While food is rarely the number one issue in the western world, food quality and security always bring out a ce...

Reusable React with Chris Canal

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Can React make your web pages more reusable? While on the Scot Net Rocks tour, Carl and Richard stopped in Edinburgh to chat with Chris Canal about hi...

Scaling Agile using Business Mapping with Dan North

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Can Agile scale to thousands of people? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard sat down with Dan North (and a bottle of scotch) and had a deep conversa...

User Research with Lily Dart

11 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can you learn what your users like about your application and what you can do to make it better? Enter user research! While at NDC London, Carl an...

Azure Application Insights with Joe Guadagno

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you instrument your applications in production? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talked to Joe Guadagno about his efforts using Azure Appl...

Container Patterns with Ben Hall

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What patterns make sense with containers? At NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Ben Hall about some more mature pattern approaches to container impl...

Onboarding is Culture with Jessie Shternshus

04 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does your company do when it brings in new hires? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talked to Jessie Shternshus of the Improv Effect about ho...

NuML with Seth Juarez

03 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can you make machine learning simpler? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talked to Seth Juarez about his open source project NuML. Seth has be...

Identity Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen

02 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How are you managing identity? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Dominick Baier and Brock Allen about their work Identity Server. Now p...

Understanding R with Barbara Fusinska

28 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What do you know about R? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talked to Barbara Fusinska about her work using R as part of real system. Barbara talk...

Service Discovery with Ian Cooper

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Service Discovery? Is UDDI back? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Ian Cooper about service discovery in the microservices world. Ian talk...

Containers and Microservices in Azure with Michele Bustamante

26 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's the current situation with containers in Azure? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about the continuing ev...

Space Elevators and Tethers Geek Out

21 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Are space elevators really possible, or just science fiction? Time for a Geek Out! Carl and Richard chat about the idea of being able to build a cable...

Glimpse V2 with Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar

20 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Glimpse is moving to version 2! Carl and Richard chat with Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar about the latest version of Glimpse and what moving fr...

GitHub Goodness with Phil Haack

19 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time for a GitHub sync with Phil Haack! Carl and Richard chat with Phil about the latest developments at GitHub, including the on-going evolution of t...

Cryptography with Stephen Haunts

14 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Encrypt all the things! Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Haunts about how to use cryptography properly. And as it turns out, you don't have to be a ma...

Successful Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to successfully implement test automation on your application? Carl and Richard talk to Arnon Axelrod about his work using test auto...

Messaging is Forever with Clemens Vasters

12 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Messaging is taking over the world! Arguably it already has. Carl and Richard talk to Clemens Vasters about his ten years of work at Microsoft buildin...

Mature Open Source Projects with Jimmy Bogard

07 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What is it like managing a mature open source project? Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his experiences with AutoMapper, an open source pro...

Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese

06 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Microservices built with a functional language? You bet! Carl and Richard talk to Rachel Reese about her work with jet.com building microservices in F...

Microsoft DevOps Stack with Brian Randell

05 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a DevOps stack? Carl and Richard talk to Brian Randell about his experiences implementing tooling for DevOps practices using Visual Studio...

Old Programmers with Gary Wisniewski

31 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

What is the good and bad of being an old programmer? To wrap up 2015, Carl and Richard chat with Gary Wisniewski about his blog post on the subject an...